The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Invite your attention to attached paper on lying in the Army from the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute. Authors are two War College professors, both retired Army officers and West Point graduates. Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession Authored by Dr. Leonard Wong, Dr. Stephen J. Gerras.
I think article below is spot on, but I also don’t think it will matter. Given the current national trajectory, it will take another Kasserine Pass, another Task Force SMITH, to get America to pay attention to T.R. Fehrenbach (“… young men in the mud. …”), to the eternal truth that the ultimate arbiter of …
Month-old Rowan Scarborough article at bottom and transmittal messages above it are worth reading. While I don’t have Army numbers, I’d bet we have or will soon have same kinds of retention problems as the Navy. What I am seeing are: * A stated policy of “precision retention” whereby, in getting to end strength it thinks …
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PDF (132 Pages): Australian Army Reading Phi Beta Iota: The primary problem we have with such lists is that they short-change intelligence with integrity. Still today intelligence is a tiny fraction of the course of instruction at any Command & Staff or War College. War — and the cost of war — are not understood …
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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. …
Here’s What’s Troubling American Troops in One Chart It’s about ‘combat experiences,’ not length of deployment This Army graph makes crystal clear what many U.S. troops, and their loved ones, have long suspected: the more combat events they experience, the more mental-health problems they will suffer. In fact, according to this illustration from a new …
Global Aircraft Carrier Infographic Some weeks ago I wrote Carriers Of The Pacific, a comparison of the U.S. fleet vs. other countries, prompted by the U.S. “pivot to the east”. One Chart Shows The Magnitude Of U.S. Naval Dominance provides an infographic that makes things crystal clear. Two thirds of all carriers belong to the U.S. …
