The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Sorry about the crummy search results. Here are the two core graphics plus some related references. We cannot say enough good things about the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the U.S. Army. If Army flag officers paid more attention to the sound thinking coming out of there, and kept their integrity in their dealings with …
(1) This **could** be DoD’s near-term future; (2) honestly have not heard anything bad about her; (3) my principal concern is that she has no personal military experience, which I personally think should be mandatory for any SECDEF. Chuck Spinney Sends: Truely nuts. The article is a puff piece about an incompetent fraud who happens …
Phi Beta Iota: The author, Michael O’Hanlon, remains one of our most respected commentators on defense, and his suggestions within this document are entirely reasonable. However, he does not go far enough. A 10% reduction of a military-industrial complex budget that has nearly tripled in 30 years is not serious, nor is there innovation in …
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Robert David STEELE Vivas Comprehensive Architect, Prime Design – – – – – – – Posted: January 4, 2011 02:08 PM Cyber-Intelligence — Restore the Republic of “Of, By, and For” – – – – – – – – Posted: December 26, 2010 10:00 AM Infinite Wealth for All Below the line: prior posts on …
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Phi Beta Iota: Notes summarizing the 59 minute video are below the line. ….Watch this!!!!! My good friend Pierre Sprey interviews Bill Hartung on Book TV about Hartung’s new book, Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex. The book is a history of the largest military contractor in U.S. history, …
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People are more likely to lie, exaggerate and distort when they know they won’t be held accountable for what they said, and people like to say what their interlocutors want to hear, says Jordan Stancil. Jordan Stancil Jordan Stancil is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of …
This is a great example of the kind of gaming that keeps defense budgets high. Kudos to Winslow Wheeler for smoking it out. On Dec 3, 2010, at 7:56 AM, Winslow Wheeler wrote: In a midnight switch, the Deficit Commission changed the dividing line between discretionary spending elements. Was 050 (DOD,DOE, Misc.) versus the rest; …
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