NATO OSINT to OSE/M4IS2 Round-Up 2.0

SHORT-CUT: http://tinyurl.com/NATO-OSE 2015-2016 NATO Strategic Foresight Wrap-Up NATO Innovation Hub Strategic Foresight Report Answers: Steele for NATO Strategic Foresight Berto Jongman: Will US Collapse Soon? Robert Steele: Should EU Be Thinking About Post-US NATO? 2013 2013 BGen James Cox, CA (Ret) On the Record on Open Source Information versus Open Source Intelligence versus Secret Intelligence …

Review: On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned about Serving the Common Good

Jim Wallis 5.0 out of 5 stars TImely — Relevant to 2014 and 2016, March 29, 2013 God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It is in my view the better book, here is the first sentence from my review of that book in 2005: “Jim Wallis has my …

Winslow Wheeler: GAO (A Legislative Entity) Plays Courtesan to Lockheed, DoD, and the Congressional Recipients of Lockheed Largesse + F-35 RECAP

DOD is circling the wagons to keep the F-35 propped up in the declining Pentagon budget.  Importantly, as noted by a prime Lockheed mouthpiece offering his thankfulness for it, GAO’s newest report on the F-35 offers a conclusion that the F-35 is on track for improvement–the data notwithstanding.  In point of fact, what the GAO conclusion …

Chris Matthews: Roasting Dick Cheney, the Neo-Cons, and Blatant (Treasonous) Lies….Ends with a Call for a Truth & Reconciliation Commission

Ten years later after the start of the Iraq war, the neocons still don’t see the error of their ways. Mother Jones’ David Corn and author Ron Suskind join Hardball to discuss. Highlights:  Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Perle skewered  in detail, airing their past words and their present insouciance.  Cheney is called sadistic, all of them …

Marcus Aurelius: USAF Priorities — Relieve One Colonel of Command for a Waistline (He Passed the PT Test), Never Mind the F-35 Killing Pilots and Budgets, or Generals Who Cannot Win Wars….

Priorities! Colonel relieved of command for failing PT [Waist Measurement] By Jeff Schogol – Staff writer Military Times, Wednesday Mar 20, 2013 16:47:54 EDT The Air Force has relieved a full colonel with an impeccable resume for failing his physical fitness test [Phi Beta Iota: he passed the physical test, it was his waist measurement …

Search (3): Analytic Models, 10 Threats, Threat Support to Acquisition

Ada Bozeman, in Strategic Intelligence and Statecraft: Selected Essays, has written: (There is a need) to recognize that just as the essence of knowledge is not as split up into academic disciplines as it is in our academic universe, so can intelligence not be set apart from statecraft and society, or subdivided into elements…such as …

Penguin: Examination of Lockheed Lobbying and the C-130 Hercules

The stories are getting simple enough and ridiculous enough for the average American to start getting it. The Disturbing History of One of the Pentagon’s Most Expensive Flying Turkeys Meet the C-130 Hercules. EXTRACT The C-130 Hercules, or Herk for short, isn’t a sexy plane.  It hasn’t inspired hit Hollywood films, though it has prompted …