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 …

Marcus Aurelius: Obama and Kerry on Syria — Who Is Stabbing Who in the Back?

Dividing line Obama And Kerry Fail To Mask Foreign Policy Strains The two politicians appear to have different views over how Washington should exercise its influence across the globe, writes Geoff Dyer Financial Times, June 22, 2013, Pg. 4 When Barack Obama asked John Kerry to be his second-term secretary of state, the president appeared …

Gordon Duff: Modern Cars As Murder Weapons — Just Attach A Transceiver to the On Board Computer, and Assume Control — Works on Aircraft as Well

“We Got The Message…” Hastings “Boston Brakes” Killing a Warning? Imagine a new “E Class” Mercedes exploding in flames, burning to a cinder.  220 km/hr crashes on the Autobahn are often survived, certainly without a fire. There is a reason to own a Mercedes, in normal circumstances the chances of dying in one are quite …

Berto Jongman: Millimeter Waves May be the Future of 5G Phones

Millimeter Waves May Be the Future of 5G Phones Samsung’s millimeter-wave transceiver technology could enable ultrafast mobile broadband by 2020 By Ariel Bleicher IEEE Spectrum, 13 Jun 2013 Clothes, cars, trains, tractors, body sensors, and tracking tags. By the end of this decade, analysts say, 50 billion things such as these will connect to mobile networks. …

Neal Rauhauser: Transcript of Meeting Between Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt with Department of State Staff

All sort of stuff popping up today.  Worth a complete and careful reading. Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt Friday April 19, 2013 On the 23 of June, 2011 a secret five hour meeting took place between WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was under house arrest in rural UK …

2013 Robert Steele Reflections on Alternative Command & Control (AltC2) — Five Questions and a Game Plan 1.1

1.1 Adds contribution “An API for NATO” from Innovation Hub participant laukner, and adds Open Source Everything (OSE) graphic that most of us agree is the necessary technical transformation that must take place for the UN, EU, NATO, BRICS, and others to be effective at M4IS2 and creating a prosperous world at peace, a world …