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 …

2013 Healing the Americas with an Open Source Agency

Document (4 Pages):  Healing the Americas with an Open Source Agency 2.0 En Espanol:  2013 Sanando a las Américas con una Agencia de Fuente Abierta AAIntelligencia Marzo 2013:  AAIMARZO2013 Healing the Americas with an Open Source Agency Can Chile Lead the Americas Toward Open Source Everything? Robert David STEELE Vivas, CEO, Earth Intelligence Network Editor’s …

Berto Jongman: The State of Intelligence Studies

The 4-day International Studies Association (ISA) conference is coming up in San Francisco in less than a month….3-6 April 2013….with the current status of Intelligence Studies Section panels copied below FYI…. Intelligence Studies Section Panels at ISA 2013 3-6 April 2013 in San Francisco, California

Ho Ho Ho: Unhappy Neighbors — South China Sea as Flash Point, Indonesia and Viet-Nam Seek Solutions — China’s U-Shaped Line and String of Pearls

Unhappy Neighbors Ngo Vinh Long The Cairo Review of Foreign Affairs, February 10, 2013 Speaking to diplomats, businessmen and journalists at the British Foreign Office in November, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia emphasized the need for “norms and principles” in resolving disputes in the South China Sea. Why did President Yudhoyono, who was spending …

Chuck Spinney: Buy Before You Fly … How to Suck Money During Sequestration […Legalized Treason?]

The joint-service F-35 strike fighter is the Pentagon’s largest program. In fact, it is the most expensive procurement program in the Pentagon’s history.  It is also an unfolding disaster that is well documented, but of almost unimaginable proportions.  And yet, the F-35 is impervious to budget cutbacks in sequesterland.  Not surprisingly, among the cognoscenti of …

Chuck Spinney: Israel Seeks Exemption from US Sequester Cuts — Kerry Making the Deal?

  Oren: Israel trying to guarantee US military aid By GLOBES/RAN DAGONY Jerusalem Post, 02/03/2013 In light of cuts in US gov’t spending, Israeli ambassador says J’lem will try to safeguard funding for Iron Dome, Arrow. Jerusalem is working to salvage some of the military aid the US provides Israel, after US President Barack Obama …