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2011/09/242011/09/24

Review: Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy – Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform

Paul Pillar 5.0 out of 5 stars Four for Omissions, Six for Precision Relevance,September 22, 2011 EVENT ALERT: Paul Pillar is speaking at Brookings Institute on Wednesday 5 October 2011 from 10:00 to 11:30, RSVP is required to 21DefenseInitiative[…] I will attend that session. This alert will be deleted on 5 October. – – – …

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2011/09/222011/09/22

WInslow Wheeler: USAF Cost Over-Runs–DoD Micro-Look

When a system is so slosh with money that it does not know what its costs are, it is time to take serious action. But what do you do when no one cares? The US Air Force misreports, even to itself (and to Congress and OSD), the cost to operate and support its own aircraft. …

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2011/09/152011/09/16

Review: World 3.0 – Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It

Pankaj Ghemawat 5.0 out of 5 stars Six Star Nuanced, Brilliant, the Stuff of Nobel Laureates,September 15, 2011 This is a nuanced book. It is not possible to “review” it without having actually read it, read it carefully, and then read it again. It was easily a five as I got into it, and then …

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2011/09/10

Berto Jongman: The Emerging Global Mind

Featured Article The Emerging Global Mind Noetic Now, Issue Fourteen, September 2011 by Tiffany Shlain Fifteen years ago I founded the Webby Awards. I was fascinated by how the Internet was connecting people all over the world in new and unexpected ways. I have also been struck by the many conversations about the problems of …

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2011/09/052011/10/22

Review (Guest): Gaming the Vote – Why Elections Aren’t Fair (and What We Can Do About It)

William Poundstone 2.0 out of 5 stars Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren’t Fair (and What We Can Do About It), February 12, 2008 The book is extremely well-written, and a joy to read. It would be highly recommended, except for two fatal flaws discussed below. Poundstone’s latest book deals with an issue that is …

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2011/09/012011/09/04

Paul Fernhout: Open Letter to the Intelligence Advanced Programs Research Agency (IARPA)

EDIT 4 Sep 2011: Link and misc. fixed. Dear IARPA staff- The greatest threat facing the USA is the irony inherent in our current defense posture, like for example planning to use nuclear energy embodied in missiles to fight over oil fields that nuclear energy could replace. This irony arises in part because the USA’s …

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2011/08/212011/08/21

Chuck Spinney: Dysfunctional West Sharply Unstable

Item 1 is an insightful essay by Patrick Seale outlining the common characteristics of the political instabilities and revolutionary pressures now sweeping Europe and the Middle East. Although Seale uses the term Global Intifada to describe these instabilities, the term Intifada evolved out of the Palestinian struggle against occupation. He suggests the instabilities may be …

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