Dr. Jim Ellsworth
@EINS_Institute@infosec.exchange
I'm a retired, General Officer level U.S. Army Intelligence leader who's been in INFOSEC since the 1980s, when it was mostly mainframes & Novell. Certifications came after, when I was off leading in the PSYOP / counternarrative side of IO, so I don't have any & cannot claim to be any sort of technical expert--but I can still (in sha' Allah) talk intelligently with folks who ARE technical experts & help connect such discourse to strategic outcomes. I'm also coming onboard as Associate Director of an academic Global & National Security Policy Institute, a Twitter refugee sold on the fediverse as the most resilient architecture to avoid getting co-opted by billionaires or governments, an observant Muslim & aspiring alim, and a senior EDUCATIONAL Technology scholar. As I said in my old Twitter bio, "Yep--weird." :-D
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@VogueLaGalere@mastodon.online In Iraq, we tried mostly to use local companies, because building Iraqi capacity was one of our major objectives. Early on, though, Brown and Root did a lot of the heavy lifting while that capacity got rebuilt without the Saddam ties.
This time around, I'm sure there will be little regard for building Iranian capacity & infrastructure. The #TrumpCrimeFamily ITSELF was heavily involved in construction--and it could bear watching whether they use some of their recent #craptocurrency haul to buy out any companies with more experience doing that overseas & in conflict zones, or hand it to buddies like the reflecting pool job...or just take it themselves as part of the grift.