Thompson – Public Intelligence Blog

2013/05/292013/05/29

Review (Guest): Lessons Not Learned – The U.S. Navy’s Status Quo Culture

5 Star, Congress (Failure, Reform), Crime (Government), Executive (Partisan Failure, Reform), Impeachment & Treason, Leadership, Military & Pentagon Power, Misinformation & Propaganda, Politics, Power (Pathologies & Utilization)

Roger Thompson

5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging and Shocking December 11, 2010

By moreconcernedthanbefore

First off, let me preface this my saying that my knowledge of the American military was practically nil before reading this book so I found it all the more engaging and eye-opening especially because the American Navy is generally thought of as the best in the world, I know that was the impression I was under until I read Lessons Not Learned. The American Navy is the largest sea power in the world and the most expensive and depictions of it in movies all lead us to believe that we can rest easy knowing that there would never be any chance of the Americans losing in a conflict against any other nation in the world. Unfortunately, that simply seems to not be the case, Lessons Not Learned points out a number of flaws in many, if not all, aspects of the American Navy. More frustratingly, it seems that many of these flaws could actually be fixed but are not. The system of hierarchy and promotion, along with a stubborn way of thinking and far too much pride not only limits the capabilities of the Navy but also puts those nations that rely or expect support and candidacy from it in danger.

The system of hierarchy in the Navy and the promotion system enforces and ensures that the officers put in charge are ones that care more for their careers than for the candidacy and for the state of the American Navy. The Navy itself encourages an “up or out” system which ensures that only officers who are willing to regurgitate prepared statistics, facts and speeches are ever able to ascend in rank. This is particularly disconcerting because we are taught, shown, and the military takes every opportunity to depict a strict and rigid code of conduct and honor. Yet, in the very institution itself, an officer cannot hope to achieve a rank or status if he was to actually adhere to that code and image the American Navy works so hard to sell. Knowing this, is it really any wonder that the Navy is as poorly trained and prepared for war at sea as is illustrated in the book? Most officers of any distinguishing rank have already been lying, falsifying, and putting all of their effort into convincing the world at large that the American Navy is the best in the world instead of actually endeavoring to make it so.

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2006/07/182009/09/06

Whole Earth Review Archives on Public Intelligence (Historical)

Whole Earth Review

1992	US	Whole Earth R	Brand	Army Green
1992	US	Whole Earth R	Kapor et al	We Need a National Public Network
1992	US	Whole Earth R	Kleiner	The Co-Evolution of Governance
1992	US	Whole Earth R	Petersen	Will the Military Miss the Market
1992	US	Whole Earth R	Staple & Dixon	Telegeography: Mapping the New World Order
1992	US	Whole Earth R	Steele	E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, and Intelligence
1992	US	Whole Earth R	Tibbs	Industrial Ecology: An Environmental Agenda for Industry
1991	US	Whole Earth R	Brilliant	Computer Conferencing: The Global Connection
1991	US	Whole Earth R	Clay	Genes, Genius, and Genocide
1991	US	Whole Earth R	Elgin	Conscious Democracy Through Electronic Town Meetings
1991	US	Whole Earth R	Garcia	Assessing the Impacts of Technology
1991	US	Whole Earth R	Godwin	The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Virtual Communities
1991	US	Whole Earth R	Karraker	Highways of the Mind
1991	US	Whole Earth R	Lovins & Lovins	Winning the Peace
1991	US	Whole Earth R	Marx	Privacy & Technology
1991	US	Whole Earth R	Meeks	The Global Commons
1991	US	Whole Earth R	Rheingold	Electronic Democracy: The Great Equalizer
1991	US	Whole Earth R	Schuman	Reclaiming our Technological Future
1991	US	Whole Earth R	Warren & Rheingold	Access to Political Tools: Effective Citizen Action
1991	US	Whole Earth R	White	Earthtrust: Electronic Mail and Ecological Activism
1991	US	Whole Earth R	Whitney-Smith	Information Doesn't Want
1991	US	Whole Earth R	Wittig	Electronic City Hall
1990	US	Whole Earth R	Barlow	Crime and Puzzlement: The Advance of the Law on the Electronic Frontier
1990	US	Whole Earth R	Brand	Outlaws, Musicians, Lovers, and Spies: The Future of Control
1990	US	Whole Earth R	Dodge	Life Work
1990	JP	Whole Earth R	Ishii	Cross-Cultural Communications & Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
1990	US	Whole Earth R	Jordon III	Restoration: Shaping the Land, Transforming the Spirit
1990	JP	Whole Earth R	Kumon	Toward Co-Emulation: Japan and the United States in the Information Age
1990	US	Whole Earth R	Monschke	How to Heal the Land
1990	US	Whole Earth R	Shapard	Observations on Cross-Cultural Electronic Networking
1990	US	Whole Earth R	Vidal	Founding Father Knows Best
1989	US	Whole Earth R	Berman	The Gesture of Balance
1989	US	Whole Earth R	Garfinkle	Social Security Numbers: And Other Telling Information
1989	US	Whole Earth R	Haight	Living in the Office
1989	US	Whole Earth R	Horvitz	The USENET Underground
1989	US	Whole Earth R	Jaffe	Hello, Central: Phone Conferencing Tips
1989	US	Whole Earth R	Johnson`	The Portable Office
1989	US	Whole Earth R	Rheingold	Ethnobotany: The Search for Vanishing Knowledge
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Baker, S.	Gossip
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Baker, W.	Gossip
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Brand	The Information Wants to Be Free Strategy
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Coate	Tales from Two Communities: The Well and the Farm
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Ferguson	Gossip
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Fields	Gossip
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Hardin	Gossip
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Hawkins	Computer Parasites & Remedies–A Catalog of First Sightings
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Keen	Gossip
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Kleiner	Gossip
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Leary	Gossip
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Nelson	Gossip
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Newroe	Distance Learning
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Pert	The Material Basis of Emotions with Inset, Mind as Information
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Rappaport	Gossip
1988	US	Whole Earth R	Thurow & Walsh	Getting Over the Information Economy
1987	US	Whole Earth R	Donaldson	An Incomplete History of Microcomputing
1987	US	Whole Earth R	Henson	MEMETICS: The Science of Information Viruses
1987	US	Whole Earth R	Horvitz	An Intelligent Guide to Intelligence
1987	US	Whole Earth R	Krause	Bio-Acoustics: Habitat Ambience & Ecological Balance
1987	US	Whole Earth R	Roberts	Electronic Cottage on Wheels
1986	US	Whole Earth R	Fend & Gunther	What Have You Got to Hide: Iraq Iran Basra Abadan
1986	US	Whole Earth R	Minsky	Society of Mind
1986	US	Whole Earth R	Sanders	Etiquette for the Age of Transparency
1986	US	Whole Earth R	Scxhwartz & Brand	The World Information Economy
1986	US	Whole Earth R	Thompson	A Gaian Politics
1985	US	Whole Earth R	Brand, Kelly, Kinney	Digital Retouching: The End of Photography as Evidence of Anything
1985	US	Whole Earth R	Hunter	Public Image
1985	US	Whole Earth R	Kleiner	The Health Hazards of Computers: A Guide to Worrying Intelligently
1985	US	Whole Earth R	Mander	Six Grave Doubts About Computers
1983	US	Whole Earth R	Illich	Silence is a Commons: Computers Are Doing to Communication What …
1982	US	Whole Earth R	Brand	Uncommon Courtesy: A School of Compassionate Skills
1982	US	Whole Earth R	Kayes	Force Without Power: A Doctrine of Unarmed Military Service
1982	US	Whole Earth R	Meadows	Whole Earth Models & Systems

2006/07/182009/09/06

Threat Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)

Threats

2004	NO	Threat	Bjorgo	Root Causes of Terrorism
2004	US	Threat	Kaplan	The Saudi Connection to Terrorism
2004	US	Threat	Knapp	Al Qaeda and the Mass Media (PSYOP Briefing)
2004	US	Threat	Knapp	Al Qaeda and the Mass Media (Reference)
2004	US	Threat	Knapp	Distortion in Islam and Jihad
2004	US	Threat	Knapp	Diversity in Islam
2006	US	Threat	Daly	Al Qaeda Against Saudi Oil
2006	US	Threat	Johnson	Battle of Algiers and Its Lessons
2006	US	Threat	Seagraves	Gold Warriors: New Epilogue, Further of US Theft of WWII Gold Loot
2006	US	Threat	Seagraves	Gold Warriors New Chapter Seventeen
2006	US	Threat	Steele	Who Is to Blamce? The Vice President and Us
2006	US	Threat	Stern	Al Qaeda Approach to US Muslims
2006	UK	Threat	Story	Crunch Time for CIA, Banks, and Related Thieves of $742 Trillion
2005	US	Threat	Ellis	Scenarios for Next Generation Crises in Latin America
2005	US	Threat	GAO	GAO Report: US Not Addressing Islamic Fundamentalism
2005	US	Threat	OSS	Somalia Piracy Quick Report
2005	US	Threat	OSS	Report on Remote Detonation of Improvised Explosive Devices
2005	US	Threat	OSS	PRC Trade in Latin America
2005	US	Threat	Ray & Gross	The Perfect Storm
2005	US	Threat	Steele	Worksheet for Book Review on Crossing the Rubicon
2005	US	Threat	Steele	Mother Nature as Terrorist
2005	US	Threat	Steele	9-11: Who’s To Blame? One Man’s Opinion
2005	US	Threat	Thompson	Is the Terrorism Threat Over-Rated?
2004	US	Threat	Daly	Globalization & National Defense (Ecological Economics)
2004	US	Threat	Louisiana	Pre-Hurricane Katrina Study and Conclusions
2004	US	Threat	Palmer	The Real Axis of Evil: 44 Dictators
2004	US	Threat	Peters	Early Warning of Disease From Pattern Analysis
2004	US	Threat	Seagrave	Transcript of Video on Stolen Gold Held by US Treasury & Citi-Bank
2004	US	Threat	Vlahos	Attachment to the Muslim Renovatio Memorandum
2004	US	Threat	Vlahos	The Muslim Renovatio and U.S. Strategy
2004	US	Threat	Vlahos	The Muslims Are Coming
2004	US	Threat	Vlahos	Insurgency Within Islam
2003	US	Threat	Danzip	Countering Traumatic Attacks
2003	PRC	Threat	OSS	PRC Treaty & Trade Penetration of Latin America
2002	US	Threat	Emerson & Steele	American Jihad Map
2002	US	Threat	Steele	ACFR, 19 Cities: 9-11, U.S. Intelligence, & the Real World
2000	US	Threat	Steele	Georgetown/AWC: Non-Traditional Threats
1998	US	Threat	Steele	TAKEDOWN: Targets, Tools, & Technocracy
1994	US	Threat	Steele	6^th National Threat Symposium: New Directions in Information Sharing
2005	NGO	Threat	NGO	Changing Face of Global Violence
2005	NGO	Threat	NGO	Human Security Audit
2004	US	Threat	Pelton	Robert Young Pelton on Dangerous World
2004	US	Threat	Steele	Three Book Review Relevant to Global War on Terror (GWOT)
2003	US	Threat	Copeland	Analysis of the New Paradigm for Terrorism
2003	US	Threat	Manwaring	Street Gangs: New Urban Insurgency
2003	US	Threat	Manwaring	War & Conflict: Six Generations
2003	US	Threat	Pelton	Summary of Presentation on World’s Most Dangerous Places
2002	US	Threat	Betts	The Next Intelligence Failure: The Limits of Prevention
2002	NL	Threat	Jongman	World Conflict and Human Rights Map 2001-2002
2002	US	Threat	Wheaton	Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: A Model
2002	US	Threat	Wheaton	Virtual Afghanistan: Modeling a Transition from Authoritarian Rule
2001	US	Threat	Godson	Governments and Gangs
2001	US	Threat	Heidenrich	Early Warning & Complex Monitoring of Ethnic Genocide (Slides)
2001	US	Threat	Heidenrich	Early Warning & Complex Monitoring of Ethnic Genocide (Text)
1998	US	Threat		Transnational Enemies: Threats Without Names
1998	US	Threat	Glaebus	Metaphors & Modern Threats: Biological, Computer, Cognitive Viruses
1997	US	Threat	Fialka	War by Other Means: Economic Espionage In (Against) America
1997	US	Threat	Schwartau	Information Warfare: The Weapons of the Information Age
1997	US	Threat	Tenney	Cyber-Law and Cyber-Crime: Spamming Methods and Costs
1996	US	Threat	Keuhl	School of Information Warfare Threat and Strategy: Shifting Paradigms
1996	US	Threat	O’Malley	Countering the Business Intelligence Threat
1996	US	Threat	Strassmann	U.S. Knowledge Assets: The Choice Target for Information Crime
1996	US	Threat	Winkler	Electronic Industrial Espionage: Defining Ground Zero
1994	US	Threat	Whitney-Smith	Refugees: Weapon of the Post Cold War World–Counter Offensive: IW

2005/11/242009/12/04

Review: The Terror Timeline–Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11–and America’s Response (Paperback)

5 Star, 9-11 Truth Books & DVDs

Goes as far as any team can go–missing digital tools,

November 24, 2005

Paul Thompson

This extraordinary compilation of honest objective research goes as far as any human team can go. Paul Thompson and the Center for Cooperative Research are national–nay, global–treasures.

The timeline is most useful if read in conjunction with David Griffin's two books, “The New Pearl Harbor” and also “The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions.”

Here are the two bottom lines:

1) There is, beyond reasonable doubt, a case to be made that elements of the U.S. Government were actively complicit with the terrorists, with the Bush family security company controlling the World Trade Center, with certain Wall Street firms, and with the Saudi Royal Family, in permitting 9/11 to happen as a pretext for war to secure energy resources in Afghanistan and Iraq.

2) The consequent “investigations” are a mockery of the American people and disrespect our concept of justice. There is no question but that the varied investigations have been both frustrated by an Administration in active denial mode, and by a Congress reluctant to confront the hands that feed them: the special interests.

It is clear to me that we need a People's Grand Jury that has access to the same level of technology that is represented by “Able Danger,” that is to say, we must be able to do data mining on all of this information, and create public intelligence reports–and public counterintelligence reports–that connect the dots for the people. We must do this before November 2006.

I believe that if such an endeavor is successful, it will demonstrate that the CIA and the FBI were both corrupt and incompetent prior to, during, and after 9/11; that the U.S. military was put on “stand down” to allow 9/11 to happen; and that Dick Cheney specifically, but the Bush Administration neo-cons generally, mis-led the President, Congress, the media, and the public with a web of lies intended to further their pre-conceived ideological fantasies.

We the People need to get our collective public intelligence enterprise going before November 2006. America is close to a tipping point. This author, and David Griffin, give us a slight taste of the power that can be restored to the public if we pay attention. That makes them national heros.