The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Virginia stands to feel the most pain from defense cuts Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post, Tuesday August 10, 2010 RICHMOND — Virginia officials reacted with bipartisan dismay on Monday to Defense Department budget shifts that will cost the state thousands of jobs in coming years and will dramatically impact the economies of the Norfolk …
Sorry about this not coming up right off. It’s common name is 450-ship Navy, the piracy was added later. 2008 U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century TRUE STORY: OSS did the first Somalia piracy evaluation for CENTCOM J-2P, in 2005. Years later we were able to ask both Navy Irregular Warfare and US Special …
The Long Commission Report was very closely held, at the time only five people including John Guenther and Robert Steele, had access to the entire report. Here’s the bottom line: 1) The threat changed and no one noticed. The battalion commander, who had previously served as the senior Marine in the CIA’s Special Operations Group …
Somalia anti-piracy patrol: Reuters Africa published a report that European Union foreign ministers are expected to extend the bloc’s anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia for another year next week. Rear Admiral Peter Hudson, Commander of the European Union Naval Force Somalia, said he expected a new extension of its mandate which expires in …
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The following is a collection of resources found over the past few years which we thought should be shared: This service is an on-going project to collect and catalogue all graphic products that have been prepared for publications and web-sites from the last 15 years in a wide range of themes related to environment and …
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The following spaghetti diagram has been making the round of Versailles … it purports to summarize the strategy for winning the hearts and minds of the Afghans. But this is just the tip of the systems dynamics iceberg. This diagram is based on an attempt to model the non linear feedbacks implied …
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Phi Beta Iota: With a tip of the hat to Marcus Aurelius, this document is provided for information. On balance it is rich with insights that are not available elsewhere and consequently must be very highly regarded as a baseline for where US intelligence reform (and US intelligence) are today: dead, with a $75 billion …
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