The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Five Ways 9/11 Has Transformed The US Military The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, fundamentally transformed the way the United States military wages war. With the invasion of Afghanistan and, months later, Iraq on the heels of 9/11, the wars have caused the Pentagon to rethink the way it fights, how it spends money in …
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My good friend Pierre Sprey took issue with my characterization of Steven Walt’s critique of US grand strategy as being excellent subject to two omissions. Attached herewith are Pierre’s comments — they are spot on, and I stand corrected on my characterization of “excellent” … or perhaps more accurately … I stand clearly and fairly …
President Obama appears to have no interest in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) as a source of accurate information for decision making and policy formulation. John Brennan, his counter-terrorism chief and principal advisor on intelligence issues routinely circumvents the IC when the administration needs strategic intelligence to guide its national security deliberations. During the last …
Defense Insanity: U.S. Military Dependent on Russian Pilots and Planes By George Landrith May 17, 2011 6:18 am GOPUSA The U.S. is hiring the Russians to deliver sensitive equipment and supplies to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why? Because the U.S. military has a shortage of the highly dependable and amazingly versatile C-17 airlifter …
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Pakistan did its part By Asif Ali Zardari, Monday, May 2 Although the events of Sunday were not a joint operation, a decade of cooperation and partnership between the United States and Pakistan led up to the elimination of Osama bin Laden as a continuing threat to the civilized world. And we in Pakistan take some …
Although there are important elements I disagree with — in some cases strenuously — US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor (Ret.) has written an important piece on the fundamental changes and massive budget reductions that are needed to improve America’s ability to survive into the future. Macgregor gets the three essentials right, I believe: 1) the …
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Libya, appears to me to be a US-UK venture, having little to do with Gaddafy. Rather, in significant part it is driven by the goal of squelching potential and logical French influence in the in the Middle East and its leadership in accommodating (establishing the terms of integration) Islam in Europe and the West. Mr …
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