The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Article below appeared in last week’s Army Times. Paper to which article refers attached; I’ve been carrying a hardcopy in my rucksack for weeks. Author works for the Undersecretary of the Army. Many of us feel that the Army absolutely cannot deal with truth or candor. Messengers often get killed. PC often rules the day. …
Attached is a SECDEF speech from two days ago — six main points and the major thrust is things are not going to get better any time soon. PDF (10 Pages): (U) SecDef Six Points 5 NOV 13 Six priorities: First, we will continue to focus on institutional reform. Second, we will re-evaluate our military’s …
* The Chinese character for revolution, “fire in the lake,” was made well-known to literate Americans by Frances Fitzgerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Little, Brown and Company, 2009), originally published in the early 1970’s. The book remains startlingly relevant to a learning-disabled US military repeating the same mistakes, …
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Please note Army Chief of Staff General Raymond T. Odierno‘s updated strategic priorities for the US Army, arranged in five (5) categories. PDF Slide Show: CSA Strategic Priorities vFinal 16Oct13 From those, here is an extract . EXTRACTS: [DOWNSIZED ARMY; EXPEDITIONARY] – Downsize, transition, and then sustain a smaller, but ready and capable Total Army …
Useful references. 1 – Army Vision 2 – Army Strategy 3 – Army Planning Guidance Annex A (Planning Tasks) 4 – Army Testimony (SecArmy, CSA) 5 – 2018 National Defense Strategy Robert Steele Comment & Links Below
Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part III in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Robert David Steele This is the author’s preliminary draft of the third of three monographs focused on …
These are my personal views that do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Defense or any element thereof. Reflections on The People’s Army, The Constitution, & Grand Strategy Robert David Steele DOC (11 Pages) Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Army-Constitution The People’s Army – the Continental Army rooted in home-spun militias – was formed and …
