The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
NIGHTWATCH HOME. France: For the record. Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on 3 February he would sign a decree barring a Moroccan man from receiving French citizenship because of his insistence that his French wife conform to the strictest Islamic practices. Fillon said that the man “has no place in our country.” The French authorities …
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Assistance: US Aid Program for Pakistan Frontier a Flop, Audit Says (Faxts.com News, 30 Jan 10) Assistance: What Failed In The Bureaucracy May Not Work On The Battlefield (Washington Post 2 Feb 10). One of those reasons involving the map system was attributed to the USAID mission in Pakistan, which wanted only USAID programs shown …
The recent publication of the 2010 QDR reveals once again, in typically leaden and mind-numbing prose, how the Pentagon is incapable of coming to grips with the mismatches among strategy, programs, and resources that its decision makers create for themselves, even when budgets are at the highest levels since the end of WWII. The F-35 …
Pentagon Shifts Its Strategy To Small-Scale Warfare By August Cole and Yochi J. Dreazen Wall Street Journal January 30, 2010 Pg. 4 The shift in strategy sets up potential conflicts with defense contractors and powerful lawmakers uneasy with the Pentagon’s growing focus on smaller-scale, guerilla warfare. In particular, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has come to …
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This post has four parts: 1) Chuck Spinney’s long commentary; 2) The original article with attachments from TruthDig; 3) a ripost making three points about Chuck’s comments; 4) Chuck’s answer and a short comment from Robert Steele The Eikenberry Cables Turn Sun Tzu on His Head: Domestic Politics and the Art of Asymmetrical Bureaucratic War …
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One Tribe at a Time Can the U.S. military devise a successful strategy to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan? It already has the outline of a potentially successful strategy, just read Major Jim Gant’s “One Tribe at a Time (A Strategy for Success in Afghanistan)”, previously posted here, Reference: One Tribe at …
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Capabilities Of U.S. Intelligence Agencies Questioned Congressional critics have singled out the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), established as part of a sweeping intelligence overhaul after the September 11 attacks. “I do not (have), nor do I believe the DNI as currently constructed has, all of …
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