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Pretty neat attempt at a summary. I feel you've understated the US investment in manipulating elections. Sentry Eagle's feeding information into HUMINT isn't w

Pretty neat attempt at a summary. I feel you've understated the US investment in manipulating elections. Sentry Eagle's feeding information into HUMINT isn't without a commitment within HUMINT and CIA to work in the psychological and political domains. I'm not sure I feel that your list is a list of the norms that each have put forward to establish. The US is closer to a representation of their proposed norms. The others are closer to a description of operations/dossiers. It would be very interesting to read a report on proposed norms next to dossiers and strategic incentives for each country. We fully agree that norms established by treaties is a nice path forward.

linkregister 10y ago
I don't know if I quantified US election manipulation; I think it's fair to take it for granted that most 20th century Central American elections were manipulated by the United States. Does this satisfy your requirement? Your allusion to Sentry Eagle feeding information to HUMINT is pretty transitive; by that logic, Taco Bell helps HUMINT because they have a franchise in the CIA food court. (Not to mention, a CNA program has nothing to do with information gathering) True, stated vs observed are different. I believe the US and French stated match the observed, while the new Chinese statement hasn't been definitively established (detected Chinese intrusions in U.S. companies have sharply decreased, but maybe they improved tradecraft). Russian statements recently are bizarre and serve to promote their new "question everything, including facts" PR push. Most likely the path forward to deescalate the defensive Russian position is to limit aggressive NATO maneuvers, e.g. reconsider emplacing the missile defense installations in peripheral NATO states.
- jwtadvice 10y ago
  Sentry Eagle feeding SIGINT to HUMINT is nothing like Taco Bell. What an absurd thing to say.
  - linkregister 10y ago
    Yeah, it's pretty absurd. I went a little bit too far. BTW, I didn't downvote your posts; I enjoyed the discussion.
    - jwtadvice 10y ago
      I'm with you. I was rushing out for the weekend so didn't get the time to write anything more comprehensive anyway. :)

linkregister 10y ago

I don't know if I quantified US election manipulation; I think it's fair to take it for granted that most 20th century Central American elections were manipulated by the United States. Does this satisfy your requirement? Your allusion to Sentry Eagle feeding information to HUMINT is pretty transitive; by that logic, Taco Bell helps HUMINT because they have a franchise in the CIA food court. (Not to mention, a CNA program has nothing to do with information gathering) True, stated vs observed are different. I believe the US and French stated match the observed, while the new Chinese statement hasn't been definitively established (detected Chinese intrusions in U.S. companies have sharply decreased, but maybe they improved tradecraft). Russian statements recently are bizarre and serve to promote their new "question everything, including facts" PR push. Most likely the path forward to deescalate the defensive Russian position is to limit aggressive NATO maneuvers, e.g. reconsider emplacing the missile defense installations in peripheral NATO states.

jwtadvice 10y ago
Sentry Eagle feeding SIGINT to HUMINT is nothing like Taco Bell. What an absurd thing to say.
- linkregister 10y ago
  Yeah, it's pretty absurd. I went a little bit too far. BTW, I didn't downvote your posts; I enjoyed the discussion.
  - jwtadvice 10y ago
    I'm with you. I was rushing out for the weekend so didn't get the time to write anything more comprehensive anyway. :)