10 days ago by michael

Tomorrow I leave for Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania, which will be my home for the next three school years. Move-in is Thursday, with the typical orientation/getting used to the campus/meeting people stuff going on the rest of the weekend. I’ll be busy with that, obviously, and just doing ...

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17 days ago by Kristan J. Wheaton

Last year one of my strategic intelligence teams took a look at the insurgency in the north Caucasus. You can see their final product on the Mercyhurst Caucasus Insurgency Analysis Team wiki. Their analysis was only designed to look out to the Russian presidential election but having reviewed some o ...

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21 days ago by Kristan J. Wheaton

A new blog, The 19th Hole, by a Mercyhurst graduate, Robert Williams, shares some interesting insights into the current crisis in Georgia. Robert studied the Caucasus (along with the rest of the team) fairly extensively during a strategic intel project last year. As a result, he speaks from a positi ...

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23 days ago by Kristan J. Wheaton

NextSTEP Magazine, which covers the college scene for high school students, recently profiled the intelligence studies career field. This is first time I have seen such an article aimed at high school students and the article featured one of Mercyhurst's graduates, Zac Huber, fairly prominently. Whi ...

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29 days ago by Holly

Rhodes pleads guilty. Teri Rhodes, now 19 years old, was pregnant when she went to school last fall. She gave birth to a 6# little girl, that was later named Theresa, in the bathroom of her college room. Then suffocated her. I found this whole case to be incredibly sad. Sad that a young woman murder ...

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64 days ago by Kristan J. Wheaton

In case you missed it in this morning's Erie Times News (doesn't everyone read that?), the paper highlighted the Institute of Intelligence Studies' participation in the anti-graffiti task force here in Erie. The effort is pretty large but we are just doing the analysis part. Interesting work for Pro ...

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73 days ago by Kristan J. Wheaton

Bill Newton-Dunn is a Liberal Democrat from the UK and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He is also a sophisticated consumer of intelligence products and we have done several projects for him. One of our more recent projects, the EU Bio-Preparedness Project, which a mixed team of Mercyhurst ...

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84 days ago by Kristan J. Wheaton

When Tom Dempsey of the US Army's Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute ("the US military's premier center of excellence for mastering stability and peace operations...") agreed to sponsor a strategic intelligence project with my graduate students last winter, I have to admit I was nervous ...

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92 days ago by Kristan J. Wheaton

Dan Mulligan, who teaches business and competitive intelligence here at Mercyhurst, was recently called to active duty and has been in Iraq for the last five months. He is home on leave and the Erie Times News did a story on him and what he has been up to since he left. I don't want to speak for Dan ...

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111 days ago by Kristan J. Wheaton

Today is graduation day for all of our graduate and adult students in the Intel Studies program at Mercyhurst. Tomorrow, all our seniors will graduate as well. SAM wishes them all the best with high honors going to the parents, family and friends who supported them all the way through what is a pret ...

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