Worth a Look: Don Vandergriff – Manning the Future Legions of the United States – Finding and Developing Tomorrow’s Centurions

An Industrial Age model continues to shape the way the Army approaches its recruiting, personnel management, training, and education. This outdated personnel management paradigm―designed for an earlier era―has been so intimately tied to the maintenance of Army culture that a self-perpetuating cycle has formed, diminishing the Army’s attempts to develop adaptive leaders and institutions. This …

Hal Berghel: Comments on Intelligence Leadership, Moral Hazards, Manning, Snowden, & Wikileaks

Leadership Failures in the National Security Complex Current NSA forecast: continued Snowden flurries with no end in sight. No one blames the hardworking NSA employees for the latest series of gaffes: it’s the feckless leadership and the politics that got them there that are responsible for our current difficulties PDF (4 Pages): Hal on Leadership …

Rickard Falkvinge: Pirate Party Iceland & EU Nominate Manning & Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize

Pirate Party MPs, MEPs Jointly Nominate Snowden And Manning For Peace Prize Civil Liberties:  Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 in a joint nomination by the Pirate MPs of Iceland and the Pirate MEPs of the European Parliament. “Manning gave us an insight into the brutal reality …

David Swanson: Chelsea Manning Awarded Sam Adams Integrity Prize for 2014

Chelsea Manning Awarded Sam Adams Integrity Prize for 2014 Announcement by Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) have voted overwhelmingly to present the 2014 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning.

Michael Farrell: Bradley Manning – Leadership Failure Over Too Many Years…

Bradley Manning: Hits Just Keep on Hitting Bradley Manning did everything but wear a sign saying “Timebomb waiting to explode! Michael Farrell Veterans Today, 14 August 2013 EXTRACT The subject of the email was “My problem.”“I’ve had signs of it for a very long time,” Bradley Manning wrote. “It caused conditions within my family. I …