The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Obama’s Credibility Gap (New York Times) Americans are still looking for the answer, and if they don’t get it soon — or if they don’t like the answer — the president’s current political problems will look like a walk in the park. Public Rifts On Afghanistan: Leaks suggest that the administration is divided, endangering Obama’s …
From where we sit, outside the wire, we went wrong at multiple levels, all matters of balance and perspective: 1. Favoring secrecy over openness 2. Favoring technologies constant stare (mostly unprocessed) over engaged human brains with eyes on 3. Demanding unilateral collection, processing, and analysis instead of a multinational foundation
Originally created by Dr. Mark Lowenthal, then with OSS.Net, Inc. and since modified, this slide, combined with Graphic: OSINT and Missing Information, depicts the challenge. What most do not understand is these two facts: 1. Open Source Information (OSIF) is not the same as Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). The latter is deliberately discovered, discriminated, distilled, …
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IC’s Language, Linguistic Shortfalls Under Scrutiny by Anthony L. Kimery Thursday, 21 January 2010 The IC still has important pockets of critical intelligence analysis that continue to suffer. The rank and file analysts at the CIA, NSA and elsewhere throughout the Intelligence Community (IC) are patriotic, dedicated … hardworking. But they have long been hampered …
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Commandant: Marine Corps Seeks Solutions to Naval Surface Fires ‘Void’ In a recent article from “Inside the Navy.com”, the Marine Corps expressed continued concern for the lack of naval surface fires support that only the DDG-1000 offers. According to this published report, Marine Corps Commandant, Gen. James Conway, referred to the truncation of the DDG-1000 …
Chuck Spinney is still the best “real” engineer in this town–almost everyone else is staggering after fifty years of government-specification cost-plus engineering. Also, as Chuck explores in the piece on Complexity to Avoid Accountability is Expensive we in the “requirements” business are as much to blame–Service connivance with complexity has killed acquisition from both a …
Taliban Overhaul Their Image In Bid To Win Allies Phi Beta Iota: We’ve known since 9/11 that the asymmetric war is also marked by an asymmetric excellence in public relations, propaganda and perception management–not only do our opponents spend $1 for every $500,000 to $5 million that we spend, but they are better at this …
