The following piece was first published in August 2015 by POGO’s Center for Defense Information.
Warfare is first and foremost a human endeavor. Wars are fought by people using their minds; weapons are only tools to implement people’s ideas. It is people, and the ideas they wield, that make the difference between a sharp, decisive victory like Desert Storm and a slow, deadly slog like World War I. Fostering the right ideas requires a culture of Mission Command. But in today’s military, harmful personnel practices preclude such a culture.
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UPDATE 22:BuzzFeed reports the evidence is simply not there.
The FBI Never Asked For Access To Hacked Computer Servers
The FBI did not examine the servers of the Democratic National Committee before issuing a report attributing the sweeping cyberintrusion to Russia-backed hackers, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Six months after the FBI first said it was investigating the hack of the Democratic National Committee’s computer network, the bureau has still not requested access to the hacked servers, a DNC spokesman said.
NOTE: Since NSA records everything it is possible NSA has the DNC “traffic” in the archives, but on balance we believe that the IC is going to be presenting Donald Trump with fabricated and insubstantial “evidence” that would never stand up in court. Julian Assange and Ambassador Craig Murray are on record as stating that it was not the Russians and an insider provided much of the material. It is deeply moronic to suggest that Donald Trump is unpatriotic for asking Julian Assange directly, while also having the wit to doubt the word of people whose sole purpose in life is to lie to everybody.
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran said on Sunday it had negotiated to pay only about half the announced price for 80 new Boeing airliners in an order that the American planemaker had said was worth $16.6 billion.
Despite fears about the many negatives from a Donald Trump presidency, one positive could be his shattering of the monopoly that neocons and liberal hawks now hold over U.S. foreign policy, says Robert Parry.
