Susan Lindauer: IRAQ – The Legacy of Deception and Its Costs

IRAQ: THE LEGACY OF DECEPTION AND ITS COSTS Susan Lindauer, Former CIA Back Channel to Iraq at the United Nations Most Americans are astonished to discover that right up to 9/11, the CIA was developing a “Real Politik” vision of Iraq that recognized the fast approaching collapse of U.N. Sanctions. The CIA was preparing for …

Dolphin: One Leadership Quality that Really Matters

Emphasis added.  By this definition, no leadership to be found in Washington, D.C. This One Leadership Quality Will Make or Break You Mike Myatt Forbes, 19 December 2011 One of the most often overlooked aspects of leadership is the need for pursuit. Great leaders are never satisfied with traditional practice, static thinking, conventional wisdom, or …

John Robb: Occupy Portland “Snake” March Defeats Police Innovatively, Non-Violently, and Continuously

Occupy Portland’s “Snake” March Tactic Wins Big An open source protest/insurgency doesn’t have a formal doctrine.  The tactics and methods (the conflict’s source code) used are developed bit by bit, by the participants.  This is why the insurgency/protest is “open source”.   For a bit of tactical innovation to make it into the conflict’s source …

Robert Steele: Cutting the US Military Budget – and Firing the Civilian and Uniformed “Leaders” Betraying the Public Trust + RECAP

On those rare occasions when two of our contributing editors hold diametrically opposite views, I am asked to come back and blend them.  Here are my premises, followed by a selection of articles that represent both sides of the argument. 1.  Neither Barack Obama nor Leon Panetta have a clue.  They are posturing on the …

Reference (2010): Human Intelligence (HUMINT) – All Humans, All Minds, All the Time [PDF & Full Text Online]

Human Intelligence (HUMINT): All Humans, All Minds, All the Time (US Army Strategic Studies Institute, June 2010) Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-HUMINT Below the line: full text for automated translation.  The Amazon version is published by someone else abusing my original copyright granted only to SSI. Click on cover for free PDF download, or read full text …