Lack of Integrity = Being on Wrong Side of History

There is no question that the sudden emergence of the Arab Revolution caught the Obama Administration flatfooted.  While it is easy to blame President Obama for being asleep at the switch, he is dependent on the professional government for information about the world — specifically, that provided by the $80 billion a year intelligence services. …

DARPA as Poster Child for Out of Control Budget

From the inventors of McNamara’s electronic line (which failed spectacularly in Vietnam) comes the Electronic Coup/Revolution Predictor (EC/RP)!  This is explained below in the attached Wired report. The EC/RP is merely the latest effort in DARPA’s continuing campaign to overthrow Boyd’s Law* (i.e., Machines don’t fight war wars, people do, and they use their minds) by …

Journal: Learning Styles Concepts and Evidence

Learning Styles:Concepts and Evidence Psychological Science in the Public Interest Harold Pashler Mark McDaniel Doug Rohrer Robert Bjork Abstract The term “learning styles” refers to the concept that individuals differ in regard to what mode of instruction or study is most effective for them. Proponents of learning-style assessment contend that optimal instruction requires diagnosing individuals’ …

Undersea Cables: The Achilles Heel of our Economies

Franz-Stefan Gady Foreign policy analyst, EastWest Institute Huffington Post, Posted: December 21, 2010 02:20 PM In December 2008 within milliseconds, Egypt lost 70 percent of its connection to the outside Internet. In far away India, 50 to 60 percent of online connectivity similarly was lost. In Pakistan, 12 million people were knocked offline suddenly, and …

Review (Guest): The Scientific Way of Warfare–: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity

Antoine J. Bousquet (Author) 5.0 out of 5 stars Real Military Science, November 12, 2010 ByRetired Reader (New Mexico) – See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) This book is an excellent description of the application of scientific theories primarily from the fields of mathematics and physics to military theory and practice. Bousquet’s approach is …