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Stein’s New Blog Home

Friend Jeff Stein is now blogging for WaPo on intelligence issues. Great! -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.

22. March 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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An Adaptive Intelligence Community

Excellent read on the needed reform within the intelligence community. Snippet: What’s needed today is an analysis-centric, rather than collection-centric, model that would elevate the importance of unclassified information and discourage compartmentalization. It would encourage analysts to hunt and gather … Continue reading

01. July 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Intelligence Officer Training

About time something like this is put in motion. ROTC for the intelligence community. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.

20. June 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Zen on Panetta

Good look at why Panetta’s as good a guy as any for this gig (in some ways better). Number one priority for fix the IC, CIA in particular has to be fixing the bloated clearance process. If you don’t do … Continue reading

08. January 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Global Trends 2025 Downloadable Here

Lots of people having trouble with the offical site. I mirrored it here. Frankly, it’s not worth the hard drive space: India and China are rising (due to a “growing middle class”), as are non-state actors, continued growth will be … Continue reading

21. November 2008 by Shlok Vaidya
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