System Administration Work in Lebanon
August 18, 2006
There have been a number of articles in the media about rebuilding Lebanon now that a cease fire is in place. Some describe the rebuilding effort as a race between the West
Category: Security
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Separate & Succeed?
August 17, 2006
As the Iraqi insurgency drags on, more and more Americans are wondering how and when the occupation is going to end. When the Bush administration went into Iraq, it did so with
The Military/Market Nexus
August 16, 2006
As Tom Barnett and I meet with government, non-government, and commercial groups, we often talk about the importance of the military/market nexus. The military-market nexus includes the relationship between security and commerce,
He Hit Me First
July 26, 2006
In a very interesting op-ed piece, Harvard professor Daniel Gilbert discusses the psychology behind retribution [“He Who Cast the First Stone Probably Didn’t,” The New York Times, 24 July 2006]. In a
Security and Privacy
July 21, 2006
Life is filled with tensions, some good and some not so good. Creative tensions, for example, help generate innovations and those who must deal with them are seldom complacent. One of the
Resilience and WMD Threats
June 16, 2006
An article in yesterday’s Washington Post [“The End Is Near, But First, This Commercial,” by Libby Copeland], talked about a SciFi Channel-sponsored discussion about doomsday scenarios that attracted a large Washington, DC,
Gallimaufry I
June 9, 2006
Gallimaufry is a hash made from leftovers. Over the years the term has also come to mean a hodgepodge. Occasionally I want to be able to address a hodgepodge of items that
DoD Reform and Congressional Recalcitrance
May 26, 2006
Two articles in the most recent issue of Defense News caught my eye. The first was a short essay by John Hamre, President of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS),
Man versus Machine
May 25, 2006
The immigration debate is raging, both in Congress and in communities across the country. On one side are the xenophobes who misuse Robert Frost’s poetry, declaring, “Good fences make good neighbors.” On
Human Error and Information Security
May 24, 2006
I’m a big believer in rule set automation as a way of reducing human errors when it comes to performing routine processes and audits. But the recent lapse by an employee of
