Examples of deceptions and descriptions of techniques to detect them.
This Blog encourages the awareness of deception in daily life and discussion of practical means to spot probable deceptions. Send your examples of deception and counter-deception to colonel_stech@yahoo.com.
Good intelligence analysis is far easier with good strategic analysis, and vice versa. Two long NYTimes magazine articles on this relationship.
Taking Stock of the Forever War
By MARK DANNER
A terrorist leader four years ago, Osama bin Laden is now an ideology as well — and a viral movement.Terrorist attacks worldwide are on the rise. Iraq could well end up a "failed" state. Maybe it's time to stop fighting on their terms.
Lost at Tora Bora
By MARY ANNE WEAVER
In December 2001, Osama bin Laden was cornered in a mountainous region along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Why wasn't he captured? And why can't he be apprehended now?
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