Sometimes you just want to look at the various tools of the Internet and find out interesting things regarding the politicians you are watching run for office. A tool called Wordle takes strings of text and then creates a cloud…
Author: Samuel Liles
A possible information operations curriculum
I have been working on an information operations graduate/masters degree curriculum using the sections, topics, and strategies found in Information Operations (JP3-13) as a starting point for course titles, and course learning objectives. The expectation is that each course would…
Academic Questions: Special issue “The military and higher education”
Small Wars Journal accepted advertising from the National Association of Scholars presenting Academic Questions as an upcoming publication. Published as an academic journal by Springer I was both intrigued and worried. As an academic I sort through the normal morass…
To whom or what is your primary loyalty?
Earlier today John Robb posted an article on the hollow state. Michael Tanji at HOTS rejoinders with to whom or what is your primary loyalty? Further he asked where would you get your intelligence (as in information)? That is a worthy question…
The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science Strategy and War
The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War forward by Thomas Barnett and edited by Mark Safranski It is almost a formalized tradition of the Greek philosophers for the students of notable thinkers to gather together the lectures and scribe…
Financial meltdown: Well what did you expect?
Sometimes a simple thinking exercise will allow an individual to consider the relative merits of an argument without having to toss together a hypothesis and test it empirically. For example, the paragons of the financial world and political adventurers…
Blog Tank: A National Cyber Security Policy
An idea that “Haft of the Spear” had was to blog tank a policy paper. With a little bit of trickery we’ve moved some of the content over to the Wiki. Check out this link for more information. The idea…
Statement about flooding
I realize that many people have incurred incredible loss and are devastated by the flooding caused by IKE. For my students all assignments are due as normal, but nobody will be penalized for not attending classes this week (September 14th).…
Northwest Indiana Flood: September 2008
Driving into the grocery store today I took some pictures. . Looking around I grabbed one screen shot that pretty much puts the totality into perspective too. Read on to see a few pictures.
Cyberwarfare or hooliganism: A short consideration of the difference
Media reports have created a meme that any or all conflict that occurs in cyber space is cyber warfare. This is an injurious concept of the conflicts within cyber space. It leads to gross generalizations and political punditry that could…
High density gardening: Food supply resiliency in suburbia
This year my spousal accessory unit and I have been engaged in a limited trial of upside down gardening. Three varieties of tomato plants (grape, celebrity, big boy) were planted in late May (late planting to be sure). The planters…
Web 1.0 through 4.0 or community to society
A quick point to define some ideas looking at Web 2.0 and the possibility that somebody could win an election based on a complete Web 2.0 effort. Hat tip to HOTS for bringing up the topic. My opinion is that…
Cyber Forensics: A partial bibliography
The following is a partial bibliography of topics related to computer or cyber forensics.
From Information operations to cyber warfare and a new terrain
Where in the hierarchy of information operations does cyber warfare belong? What is the definition of information warfare, information operations, and such? In my research into cyber warfare I have found a variety of definitions and almost all of them…
New to the Blogroll and long over due “Information Dissemination”
Long over due this excellently written blog is added for the substantive analysis and original content. I keep sending links out to professional sailors and navy types and I realized they weren’t on my blogroll and that was remedied tonight. …