I really enjoy reading William Arkin's Early Warning blog. Our opinions on the intel business don't always jibe (96Bs and 98Cs will never get along all that well) but in his latest post he hits what I …
Data Mining/OSINT on the Cheap
Very clever. Makes me wish I'd kept up my script-writing skillz. http://www.applefritter.com/bannedbooks …
On Sources
Thomas Joscelyn writes in the Weekly Standard about James Risen and his sources: On NBC's "Today" show this morning, New York Times scribe Jim Risen told Katie Couric that he hopes he will not have …
Drip, Drip, Drip
Given my background I may be slightly biased, but I’ve never been a big fan of leakers of classified information. The whole point of keeping stuff classified is that it isn’t supposed to be out on the …
Dangers of GI Blogs
From Newsday: Letters home filled with tales of death and danger, bravery and boredom are a wartime certainty. And now, as hundreds of soldiers overseas have started keeping Internet journals about …
Pshaw!
And they said that no one from the JTF would ever amount to anything: The spookiest venture capital firm on the planet has hired a new CEO. In-Q-Tel - the CIA's venture capital unit - has tapped …
Post Holiday Catch-Up
Such an effort is almost a waste of time (almost) since you're starting long after the gun has gone off, but it is a nice way to reboot the mental OS out of hibernation and get back into the swing of …
2006 Projections for Asia
As 2006 dawns, Asia finds numerous struggles marching onward without much expectation of resolution. Religion seems to be the preeminent motivating factor across the region, yet numerous ethnic …
2006 Projections for the Conflict Zones
Iraq The future ferocity and durability of Iraq?s ongoing insurgency, its national cohesion and stability, and its overall renaissance center on the following key drivers: (1) the degree of …
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2006 Projections on the Evolution of Al-Qaeda
Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 , al Qaeda the organization has evolved into a global jihadist movement from the more discrete terrorist vanguard network and operational and support corps of …
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