1/ Amb. Hank Crumpton ex CIA (24 years) head of counterterrorism. Among much clandestine activity led the 90 day overthrow of the Taliban after 9/11...
2/ Powerful piece from 60Minutes on Hank Crumpton...
3/ On Hank getting permission to take out Bin Laden when first visually identified...which we did not do.
4/ Hank correctly anticipating the rise of terrorist in Africa. And on heading one of the most secretive units...recruiting assets inside the US.
5/ Hank on
-China spying inside the US
- there being more secret foreign agents operating in the US than during the last Cold War
-the 1 thing every North Korean could be plied with
-the moral dilemmas
-what makes a “good spy”
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China’s playbook isn’t war in the open—it’s war in the seams.
They target the gaps between state & federal, public & private, markets & security.
America must 'armor up' 🧵...
2/ The CCP’s strategy?
Hollow out U.S. strength from within.
Critical infrastructure? Infiltrated.
Universities? Compromised.
State pension funds? Financing China’s military tech.
3/ While America focused on the War on Terror, China waged a war on us—a silent siege of intellectual property theft, capital capture, and digital espionage.
If you were fly on wall in Qatar's strategy meetings you’d hear their not so secret strategy
i) keep up economic relations w/Iran (esp w shared gas reserves)
ii) support Islamist groups (esp Muslim Brotherhood) + use the masses as pawns for political leverage..
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iii) assert distinct identity in MidEast geopolitics as a ‘mediator’
iv) religious mafia style––foment fervent believers (funding Al Jazeera propoganda + mosques/ Imams to rule over other country populations) grow geopolitical power depsite tiny size (and no real military)
3/ The ties to Iran + Turkey in particular who leverage terrorism, religious extremism are the greatest threat to Mideast regional peace
especially with moderate + modernizing + peace + prosperity seeking UAE + Saudi (on cusp on Israel normalzied relations) and Sunni…
2/ this technical paper from Apple published year ago not widely discussed was the breadcrumb clue and the inspiration I have shared with many friends since....
3/ The paper introduces 2 methods called “windowing” + “row-column bundling” which allow devices to run models up to 2x DRAM size by storing model parameters in flash + loading them into DRAM as needed.