She's affiliated with the DOD and most of the funding for the Highlands Forum comes from....GET THIS..!
Goldman Sach's...!
No, I'm serious.
She, MIIS, Middlebury and others are really INTO persistant surveillance, perception management and a bunch of other bad stuff:
Basically garroting Lady Liberty and throwing her torch into New York harbor.
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e
Bkmk
In 2004, Lochard was co-author of a study for the US Air Force’s Institute for National Security Studies on US strategy toward ‘non-state armed groups.’ The study on the one hand argued that non-state armed groups should be urgently recognized as a ‘tier one security priority,’ and on the other that the proliferation of armed groups “provide strategic opportunities that can be exploited to help achieve policy goals. There have and will be instances where the United States may find collaborating with armed group is in its strategic interests.” But “sophisticated tools” must be developed to differentiate between different groups and understand their dynamics, to determine which groups should be countered, and which could be exploited for US interests. “Armed group profiles can likewise be employed to identify ways in which the United States may assist certain armed groups whose success will be advantageous to US foreign policy objectives.”
Before his elections Obama was asked about "engagement" and he responsed very confidently that US engagement with heretofore shunned world actors could only be a good thing.
But what we're talking about here is a level of engagement that is breath-taking in scope.
FOOL-HARDY, ARROGANT AND RECKLESS.
“led the valuations of Facebook and Google”
What does _that_ mean?
I guess markets don’t “lead valuations” these days?
Spooky language....