Foreign (Terrorist) Fighter Estimates: Conceptual and Data Issues
Roughly 30,000? Policy Brief
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Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy
#OSE Open Source Everything, 02 China, 03 Economy, 05 Iran, 06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 11 Society, Collective Intelligence, DoD, Government, IO Deeds of Peace, Military, NATO Civ-Mil Ctr, Office of Management and Budget, Peace Intelligence, Strategy, Threats
Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017.
Part I in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series.
Updated November 15, 2016 Robert Steele
This is the author's preliminary draft of the first of three monographs focused on the future of the US Army as an expeditionary force in a complex world that is rapidly decentralizing while also facing major development challenges. A revised draft is provide at DOC below but the online full-text version has not been updated.
Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/2016-Grand-Strategy
DOC (56 Pages): EIN 7FV42 ERAP Steele Vol 1 Grand Strategy 2.4 LINKS
KINDLE (99 cents): An American Grand Strategy: Evidence-Based, Affordable, Balanced, Flexible
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Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part II – Overview of Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary Army Operations, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication December 2016.
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 December 2016.
Full Text with Graphics Below the Fold (Links Added)
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Berto Jongman: One US Captain Stopped US Nuclear Launch on Russia from Okinawa in 1962
04 Inter-State Conflict, 08 ProliferationThe Okinawa missiles of October
Bordne was serving at one of four secret missile launch sites on the US-occupied Japanese island of Okinawa.
Editor's note: As this article was being considered for publication, Daniel Ellsberg … wrote a lengthy email message to the Bulletin, …assert [ing], in part: “I feel it's urgent to find out whether Bordne's story and Tovish's tentative conclusions from it are true, given the implications of its truth for present dangers, not only past history.
Patrick Cockburn: Changing Balance of Power in Syria
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards
Patrick Cockburn on the state of the Syrian war
EXTRACT
The Russian intervention in Syria, the greater involvement of Iran and the Shia powers, and the rise of the Syrian Kurds has not yet changed the status quo in Iraq and Syria, though it has the potential to do so.
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Mongoose: China Watch — HORRORS
01 Poverty, 02 China, 03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, Earth Intelligence
23 Shocking Photos Reveal How Bad China’s Pollution Problem Has Become
Phi Beta Iota: America the Beautiful is in the dumps right now, but these photographs put our national well-being in sharp relief compared to the horrors being endured by the Chinese people.
Berto Jongman: USA Disappearing Middle Class – More than Half Make Less Than $30,000 a Year
01 Poverty, 03 EconomyMore Than Half of All Americans Make Under $30,000 a Year, According to a Shocking New Report
Wage statistics for 2014, recently released by the Social Security Administration, provide proof to the claim we all feared was true: The middle class is actually disappearing. As the online publication Washington’s Blog notes, 51 percent of U.S. workers in 2014 made less than $2,500 a month before taxes—which is below the poverty line for a family of five. What’s worse is that as the numbers in the original report are parsed, other stunning facts become clear. For instance, the fact that nearly 40 percent of Americans aren’t even making $30,000 but rather are earning closer to $20,000. Or that 70 percent of workers made less than $50,000 in 2014.
Sepp Hasslberger: Multiple sclerosis is curable Lyme disease — lies & fraud abound
07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities
Multiple Sclerosis and other neurological illnesses could be cured … but the bacterial cause – Borrelia Burgdorferi is actively denied by pharmaceutical medicine. A scandal of the first order, one might say.
Multiple sclerosis is Lyme disease: Anatomy of a cover-up
Perhaps the biggest ongoing medical scandal of the past hundred years is the fact that it has been known since 1911 that Multiple Sclerosis is caused by a bacterium, and that the Big-Pharma-controlled medical-industrial complex covered this up in order to make money selling symptom relievers to MS patients.
