Assistance:What Failed In The Bureaucracy May Not Work On The Battlefield (Washington Post 2 Feb 10). One of those reasons involving the map system was attributed to the USAID mission in Pakistan, which wanted only USAID programs shown — rather than all FATA programs, as originally planned. The USAID map system was launched at the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar in September, while as of November little progress had been made on the one for the FATA Secretariat.
Based on five years of investigation in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. The bottom line from our point of view is three-fold:
1. All money collected for an ostensible campaign must be “tagged” and audited and pooled so that the US military among others can draw down on the common fund and cover all costs associated with US military mobilization and continuing Stabilization & Reconstruction Operations.
2. We need a Stabilization & Reconstruction Intelligence Support Plan that includes Peace Jumpers and immediate air breathing wide area surveillance upon which to build a bottom-up needs assessment and Reverse TIPFID. Push the information perimeter all the way out to pre-loading approval contingent on having a big air docking space and small air or land or sea intermediate delivery channels.
3. We finally need to get serious about “preaceful preventive measures” as called for by General Al Gray, USMC, then Commandant of the Marine Corps, in his seminal article “Global Intelligence Challenges for the 1990's,” American Intelligence Journal (Winter 1989-1990). His staff assistant for that piece was Robert Steele. We need a Whole of Government and Multinational Engagement information sharing and sense-making hub and spoke network built around the US defense open source intelligence program. IOHO.
Providing shelter to an estimated 1 million homeless is first priority now that search and rescue efforts have ended and most life-threatening injuries have been treated, John Holmes said. “We still have a significant way to go before reaching everybody who needs food, and on the shelter side as well,” the U.N.'s emergency relief coordinator told a news briefing. “This is a potentially volatile environment and we have to make sure it doesn't degenerate from fights over food into more serious civil unrest,” he said. Some 7,000 tents have been distributed and another 50,000 tents are in the pipeline.
Phi Beta Iota: They appear to be feeding 140,000 or so a day (out of two million) and now tell us that 50,000 tents are planned for two million homeless who will not be under real shelter for 1-2 years. 40 people per sent, no sanitation, this just gets better and better.
Triage Big Air Elsewhere, Use ALL of the Air and Sea Ports
WASHINGTON — American Red Cross officials in Washington say there is a waiting list of 1,000 flights to land at Haiti's airport, hindering the delivery of relief supplies.
Phi Beta Iota: What part of triaging big air into little air and big boat cargo into small boat cargo are we not understanding here? The LAST place we need 1000 airplanes full of supplies is in Port-au-Prince. There is also no reason why we cannot be doing drive-by C-130s with pallets of water, food, tents, and sanitation tools and supplies. TWO MILLION out of ten million. This seems a fairly obvious challenge of scope and depth , what are we missing here, almost three weeks after these people were rendered homelesss? If the Red Cross were serious, which it is not, with 230 million of new dollars in the bank, it would be hiring fleets of small aircraft and logistics helicopters, gridding the island with an advance strategy created with the government and the US military, and putting the supplies where the people need to go to get out of the center of catastrophe, Port-au-Prince.
Answer: It all depends on what you think should be included, but once this is clear — this spending will be be exempt from any cutbacks needed to reduce the deficit.
The quirks of WordPress are good and bad. Good is that everything is indexed instantly. Bad is that every post citing the book or related to the book you are searching for comes up also, generally in reverse chronological order. Patience is rewarded by seeing all the dots connected across the literature, the above reference came up on pages 6 and 7 of the search 20 global problems to solve in 20 years, evidently the book has been entered twice, we will not delete the second so as to not distrub any existing linkbacks.
See also all the other handbooks using the menu item, Handbooks (37). For broad brush overview of the value of this web site in terms of the 750 pioneers that have contributed, use Historic Contributions (226). Finally, the menu for References (238) and its many subdivisions. Stabilization & Reconstruction is another useful term. The domestic term is Emergency Preparedness.
This web site focuses on public intelligence in the public interest, and has a major focus to that end on Multinational Engagement and specifically multinational multifunctional information sharing and sense-making, all extraordinarily relevant to civil-military operations abroad and emergency responses at home.
Pending the creation of UN, UNASUR, and African Union open source multinational engagement networks, the most interesting developments are in relation to the UN's Joint Military Analysis Center (JMAC) and its counterpart Joint Operations Center (JOC).
The recent publication of the 2010 QDR reveals once again, in typically leaden and mind-numbing prose, how the Pentagon is incapable of coming to grips with the mismatches among strategy, programs, and resources that its decision makers create for themselves, even when budgets are at the highest levels since the end of WWII. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (also called the JSF) has become a metaphor for the larger mess of the Pentagon's self-destructive pathological behavior.
Consider the first sentence in the Wired.com report attached below — “If the Pentagon doesn’t get its Joint Strike Fighter just right, the U.S. military is screwed.” Just right? Give me a break.
The JSF, like all Pentagon procurements, is in deep trouble, and Secretary Gates just fired the two-star program director and will replace him with three-star — apparently operating under the assumption that pumping up an already bloated bureaucracy will get the JSF problem “just right.” That is more nonsense — this disaster was written in the wind: the seeds were planted in the early 1990s, and the outcome was perfectly predictable — the simple fact is that the JSF was doomed not to be the “right stuff” from the very beginning.
