Journal: MILNET Selected Headlines–Out of Our Minds

What’s The Next U.S. Terror Threat?Top officials see varied challenges in coming decade Phi Beta Iota Problem 1: These folks mean well but they are totally disconnected from  reality. Phi Beta Iota Problem 2: They have no idea that the decisions made by government on the basis of their severely flawed and limited perspective costs …

Journal: MILNET Selected Headlines–Epoch A Ending

Phi Beta Iota: What all of these headlines have in common is the failure of Epoch A “leadership” or what Peggy Noonan has called the failure of institutions and Robert Steele called the paradigms of failure. Top-down command & control is incapable of meshing with bottom-up complexity that demands clarity, diversity, integrity, and legitimacy in …

Journal: Selected MILNET Headlines

Full-body scanner blind to bomb parts:  Todger, yes. Combustibles, no (The Register) U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google (CNN Opinion Online) ‘Shadow Elite’: Information Is Power And Who’s Controlling Our  Information? (Huffington Post) Moslems Fighting Moslems Becomes Respectable (Strategy Figure) Gates Sees Fallout From Troubled Ties With Pakistan (New York Times) Al-Qaeda Has Trained Female …

Journal: MILNET US Muscles South, Islamic Genocide

Muscling Latin America: The Pentagon has a new Monroe Doctrine (The Nation) In September Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, delivered on an electoral promise and refused to renew Washington’s decade-old, rent-free lease on an air base outside the Pacific coast town of Manta, which for the past ten years has served as the Pentagon’s main South …

Journal: MILNET NIGHTWATCH on Turkey in PK-AF

Pakistan-Afghanistan-Turkey:  For the record. A senior Pakistani official said Turks are playing a role behind the scenes in mending relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Reuters reported. The official said that the Turks are among those working on negotiations with some Taliban elements and that there is “a lot happening behind the scenes that people don’t …