ANSWERS to Spanish Dancer on CIA and SOF Replacing Conventional Forces

My Masters is focused on Strategic Studies and International Security and my thesis is about the relevance of the black-ops (paramilitary) to the detriment of the conventional military operations in America´s foreign policy. Basically I argue (due to literature that I´ve been revising for more than a year) that it is a fact that since …

Stephen E. Arnold: Salon Says Google Makes Us Stupid… PBI: We Think We Make Google Stupid!

Overreliance on Search Engines? The Salon.com article titled Google Makes Us All Dumber: The Neuroscience of Search Engines probes the ever-increasing reliance on search engines and finds that the way we use them is problematic. This is due to the way our brains respond to this simplified question and answer process. The article stipulates that …

Yoda: Financial Times Loves Google — But Will This Love Keep Google Going?

FT interview with Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page Even the search engine’s original mission is not big enough for what he now has in mind Page estimates that only about 50 investors are chasing the real breakthrough technologies that have the potential to make a material difference to the lives of most people on …

Robert Steele: PBI at Twitter & Facebook, Robert at Twitter & LinkedIn

Phi Beta Iota is under a new management team and going to another level, at the same time that Earth Intelligence Network is revitalizing and I will be spending  time with a team recreating the very popular weekly global threat, policy, and demographic report. A sample from the past is below. PDBweekly20070716 Phi Beta Iota …

Robert Horn: Visualizing World’s Biggest Problems

Robert Horn is a political scientist with a special interest in public policy, organizational strategy, and knowledge management. These days, he deals mostly with social messes. Social messes are more than complicated problems. I define them as tightly interconnected clusters of wicked problems and other messes. They are very complex; ambiguous; highly constrained; seen differently …