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2012/12/242016/03/26

Reflections on the US Military — Redirection Essential — and a Prerequisite to Creating a 450-Ship Navy, a Long-Haul Air Force, and an Air-Liftable Army + Sanity RECAP

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Telling the truth to those who have replaced intelligence with ideology and integrity with loyalty to something other than their Republic is most difficult and more often than not will get you fired, because those without integrity tend to be promoted in corrupt systems, and they see clearly the threat to their world-view — and their perks — of someone who persists in pointing out that the truth at any cost reduces all other costs.

Below is a complement to my earlier posting of 15 November 2012: 2012 Robert Steele: Addressing the Seven Sins of Foreign Policy — Why Defense, Not State, Is the Linch Pin for Global Engagement.

Reform can be job and revenue neutral from state to state and district to district — and is of course subject to Congressional oversight via the authorization and appropriations process. Below are seven truths about the US military that I would like to see introduced into the hearings on the confirmation of the next Secretary of Defense, and ideally also tasked to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), where the senior specialist for each of the major services is capable of validating my views.

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2012/12/232012/12/23

Gordon Duff: Honoring Chuck Hagel, Fed Up with Zionist Meddling in US Affairs

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Americans fed up with Israeli meddling in US domestic affairs

By Gordon Duff and Press TV
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”Real or not, Netanyahu feels Israel has been abandoned by the US. Some Americans, I am certainly one of these, Hagel is one also as is Chairman of the JCOS, Martin Dempsey, see Israel as interfering in domestic affairs, American elections and an irresponsible “actor” in the Middle East.”
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Senator Chuck Hagel (ret), a republican from Nebraska, is expected to be nominated by President Obama to the vital post of Secretary of Defense, taking the place of Leon Panetta.

Hagel is the only GOP senator to have stood up to the Israel/AIPAC lobby, the only senator to question sanctions against Iran and a rare and independent voice that is needed to bring Pentagon “adventurism” to an end.

However, Hagel is now under attack and stands accused of “anti-Semitism,” this time by infamous neocon Bill Kristol.

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2012/12/202012/12/21

Graphic: UN 0 Big Picture View of Global Intelligence with Integrity Supporting Documents Added

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Related Point Papers

Doc (2): Open Source Agency Synopsis 2012

Doc (2): 2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.3 21 Dec 2012

Doc (1): Virgin Truth 2.6

Background Articles

Doc (29): 2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.2 20 Dec 2012

Doc (21): Steele The Craft of Intelligence 3.3

Miscellaneous:

Slide (1): Big Picture

Doc (1): 2013 Public Governance Abstract

Doc (1): Open Source Everything 500 words 1.4

2010 INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity & Sustainability

2008 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

2012/12/20

Chuck Spinney: Smearing Hagel, Talking to Iran

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Peace Intelligence

I am ambivalent about whether Chuck Hagel has the managerial and bureaucratic skills to make the kind of Sec of Defense we need to clean out the Pentagon's Augean Stables — but the outrageous neocon assault on him because he does not kowtow to the Likud party line is over the top, as Steven Walt explains below.

The art of the smear

Stephen M. Walt

Foreign Policy, Monday, December 17, 2012 – 4:16 PM

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Can the United States Strike a Bargain with Iran?

by Patrick Seale,

Agence Global, 18 Dec 2012

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2012/12/192012/12/19

Reference: Atlantic Council Envisioning 2030: US Strategy for a Post-Western World

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Document: Envisioning 2030: US Strategy for a Post-Western World (Atlantic Council, 10 December 2030)

Executive Summary

Agree that we are at a potentially historic transition point. However, the Atlantic Council lacks the strategic analytic model to make the most of its otherwise formidable brain trust. Agree on the need for a new mental map, but they chose the wrong map. See the HourGlass Strategy as an alternative (also below the line).

The report misses multiple big possibilities including the eight tribes, M4IS2, and OSE.

1. Frame second-term policies from a more strategic and long-term perspective, recognizing the magnitude of the moment and the likelihood that the United States’ actions now will have generational consequences.

Absolutely. Understanding emergent public governance trends rooted in true cost and whole system analytics, which harness the distributed intelligence of the five billion poor, not in this report.

2. Continue to emphasize what has been called “nation-building at home” as the first foreign policy priority, without neglecting its global context.

Left unsaid is the need to establish a plan, coincident with the creation of a 450-ship Navy, a long-haul Air Force, and an air-liftable Army, to close most of our military bases around the world, and bring all of our troops – and their purchasing power – home.

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2012/12/10

Berto Jongman: Recommended on Cultivating Peace

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Mobilizing for a More Peaceful Twenty-First Century

James O'Dea, Cultivating Peace: Becoming a 21st-Century Peace Ambassador (Shift Books, 2012)

The world’s peace movements are undergoing a transition, according to James O’Dea, retired Amnesty International director. Whereas they once focused on simply opposing wars, peace organizations are now striving to actively build new social systems that embody justice and nonviolence, he writes in Cultivating Peace.

O’Dea calls on regular people everywhere to join in the shared effort by being “evolved peace leaders” in their own everyday lives. This type of peace leadership runs far deeper than protests and political campaigns: It involves a transformation of one’s own mind and heart.

Collective transformation toward more peaceable states of mind will come from thinking positively, learning to laugh, seeking wisdom, appropriately managing anger, and so on. We will not successfully stop violence, O’Dea concludes, unless we address the attitudes and patterns of thinking that give rise to it—and replace them with mind-sets conducive to shared understanding and affirmation of life.

O’Dea effectively melds social action and self-improvement into an inspiring clarion call for societal justice. At a time when mass movements are manifesting across the globe and swaying or even overthrowing whole governments, the author reminds readers of the transformative potential that concerned citizens of any country can yield when they work together. Activists and non-activists will find Cultivating Peace a worthy read.—Rick Docksai

2012/12/052012/12/05

Chuck Spinney: Palestinian Endgame & Obama’s Quagmire

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The author of this important opinion piece is a highly respected observer of politics in the Middle East with long standing connection in Israel as well as the Arab world.

Obama is Courting Danger in the Middle East

by Patrick Seale

Agence Global, 04 Dec 2012

U.S. President Barack Obama is behaving in the Middle East as if unaware of the dangers his policies are provoking. It is often said that big ships cannot easily or swiftly change course, but the U.S. ship of state is steaming headlong towards an iceberg. The collision could make 9/11 seem like a traffic accident. To protect America, its interests and its allies will require bold corrective measures — and the earlier in his second term the better.

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The views of another seasoned observer.

What Exactly Would Israel Like to Do With Its Palestinian Population?

By William Pfaff, Truthdig, 4 December 2012

What exactly is it that Israel intends to do with the Palestinians now in the territories that it has just opened for home construction for Jewish settlers, thereby extending its policy of occupying and annexing what are legally Palestinian lands?

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