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Defense Department Planning To Expand Minerva Initiative, (Inside The Pentagon)…Jason Sherman
The Pentagon plans this year to expand a fledging program launched by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to foster cooperation between the military and social scientists in a bid to improve understanding of 21st-century security challenges and develop a cadre of experts to influence national security [...]

Poll Finds Support For Obama’s War Views. (Washington Post)…Michael A. Fletcher and Jon Cohen
Americans are more upbeat about U.S. prospects in Iraq than at any time in the past five years, but nearly two-thirds continue to believe the war is not worth fighting and 70 percent say President-elect Barack Obama should fulfill his campaign promise [...]

Israel Warns U.S. Of Iranian Nuke Attack, (USA Today)…Unattributed, December 18, 2008, Pg. 7

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned that if Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, it could try to attack the United States.
Barak, who spoke Wednesday at a conference of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, said the world should press [...]

The use of Prediction Markets within the Intelligence Community may be helpful in improving the quality of intellgience. Regarding the WMDs, unlikely to have gotten a 100% of the analysts to bet that WMDs would be found.  This may have led to more in-depth understanding and awareness on the assumptions and probablilities associated with the [...]

The Information Fortress Known As North Korea(Los Angeles Times)…John M. Glionna, Nov 14, 2008.
Some intelligence is smuggled out by groups and individuals these days, but the main thing outsiders know about the reclusive regime is that they know nothing.
Kim’s approach is, ‘Know thy enemy but don’t let them know us,’ “
These days, much of the [...]

POST: I said read it! by Thomas P.M. Barnett on November 12, 2008
Link to an article about “an Indian start up thinks that the right software can make cheap phones a financial lifeline to hundreds of millions.”

TroopTube Video Site For Military Use Is Launched,  Mideast Stars and Stripes)…Leo Shane III, Nov 14, 2008.
TroopTube, an official Pentagon video sharing site, made its public debut this week, 18 months after the Defense Department barred YouTube from its military network.
To learn more about the video sharing site TroopTube, go to www.trooptube.tv.

War Threatened Over Anti-North Leaflets(Washington Times)…Jack Kim, Reuters News Agency, Oct 29, 2008.
North Korea’s military threatened on Tuesday to use everything in its arsenal to reduce South Korea to rubble unless Seoul stops civic groups from sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the communist state.

Deciding to agree to disagree, Indianapolis Star, Oct26, 2008.
It’s a strange year. Were I asked by the man in the moon to describe the political leanings of our country, I’d say Americans were center-right. Yet we’ve had nearly two terms of a frustrating and until recently ill-prosecuted conflict in Iraq, economic troubles and widespread criticism [...]

FiveThirtyEight.com
Extracts fro the FAQ page.
What is the mission of this website? Most broadly, to accumulate and analyze polling and political data in way that is informed, accurate and attractive. Most narrowly, to give you the best possible objective assessment of the likely outcome of upcoming elections.
What is the significance of the number 538? 538 is the [...]