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Owl: GOVERNMENT DEFENCE ANTI- CORRUPTION INDEX 2013

This Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index is the first ever review of corruption risk and corruption vulnerability in Defence Ministries and Armed Forces. It offers governments, armed forces, civil society organisations, and citizens detailed knowledge and understanding of the corruption risks in their national defence and security establishments. This Index is novel, as it is open …

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Marcus Aurelius: Blame Congress and Obama for Military Disarray — Never Mind Secretary of Defense and Four Dishonest Services…

This seems like a relatively simple question.  For different reasons, both POTUS and Congress apaprently seek to break the military.  POTUS’ view, arguably rooted in anticolonialism, focuses on reducing the US, to include the military, to the status of the Third World, while in Congressional (read:  Tea Party) minds, the military is the principal cash cow and thus acceptable/desirable …

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Marcus Aurelius: Reserve C-130’s as Poster Child for Strategic Dishonesty

No Clipping These Wings By David Ignatius Washingtonpost.com, July 5, 2013 For an illustration of why the federal government has become so unmanageable, consider the Air Force’s attempt last year to cut its budget by retiring unneeded warplanes. This sensible policy ran into a shredder — largely because of the political clout of the Air …

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Marcus Aurelius: The Future of Joint Operations

Everybody play nice together while the bulk of already inadequate and dwindling resources are weighted to Navy and Air Force in the Pacific.  [Oh, BTW, in separate Armed Forces Journal reporting, twp Army officers, a major general and a colonel, assert that former Chief of Naval Operations ADM (Ret) Gary Roughead and Hoover Institution analyst Kori Schake have recommended …

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Reflections on Insanity & Integrity + Reflections RECAP

I’ve been watching three areas the past few months: 01  Afghanistan and the non-existent exit strategy 02  NSA and the implosion of accountability in the US IC 03  Veteran suicides, active duty sexual assaults, and “the German disease” From where I sit, the senior leadership across the national security community and deep into every corner …

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