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Marcus Aurelius: Gala for CINCSOC Brings Out Many Failures

Without comment.  PBI should assign appropriate headline. Washington’s Intelligence Community Comes Out For a Gala “Spy” Prom The annual OSS Society Donovan Award dinner honored Adm. William H. McRaven By Carol Ross Joynt Washingtonian “Capital Comment,” 28 October 2013 No one in the ballroom came right out and shouted, “William McRaven for elected office!” but …

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Marcus Aurelius: US Effectiveness in Providing Security and Emergency Relief to Diplomatic Facilities

FYI.  Includes Benghazi. PDF (149 Pages): (U) Responding to Diplomatic Security Needs & Crises EXTRACTS: As a result of several gaps in reporting by the DOS and modifications to the Department’s reporting criteria, the researcher was unable to obtain the total number of attacks that targeted U.S. missions between 1979 and 2012. . . . …

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Marcus Aurelius: LTG Dave Barno on Building Better Generals (and Fewer of Them…)

Interesting paper that came out a couple of nights ago from one of the DC think tanks.  The principal author, LTG Dave Barno, was my classmate in a school in the early ’80s when we were both captains.  Biggest thing I see is the assertion that the major fraction of GO positions are “enterprise management” …

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Marcus Aurelius: CSA Interview + AWC SSI Reminder — Answers from the 1990’s Long Ignored…

PDF (1 Page): (U) CSA Interview (Defense News, 28Oct13)-1 Interview GEN. RAY ODIERNO US Army Chief of Staff Defense News 10/28/2013 At last week’s Association of the United States Army annual meeting and exposition in Washington, thousands gathered to hear senior leaders explain where the service is headed in this era of austerity. And the …

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Marcus Aurelius: Can Military Learn From Its Mistakes?

1.  Ricks fails to understand that military strategy and policy do not exist in a vacuum.  The White House and Congress both have votes that can be decisive.  Shinseki and Franks were closer to right w/r/t force requirements for Iraq than was Rumsfeld.  Further, Jerry Bremer unbelievably complicated Iraq by de-Baathification and dissolutionn of the …

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Marcus Aurelius: Confronting the Insider Threat

Corporate approach to a “flavor of the month” that DoD is approaching with a very heavy hand… Confronting the Insider Threat By Laura Spadanuta Published on Security Management (http://www.securitymanagement.com) Edward Snowden, who has leaked classified information about intelligence collection activities of the National Security Agency (NSA), reportedly told the South China Morning Post that he …

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