The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I strongly agree with [former US CIA Director] R. James Woolsey and [a former CIA analyst and Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, an Advisory Board to Congress] Dr. Peter Vincent Pry that the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threat to the U.S. demands our strongest attention (“How North Korea Could Cripple the …
Huh? Thousands call on Turkey’s leader to quit Protests swept Turkey on Friday and deep into Saturday morning as thousands of protesters called on prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign. What began as a demonstration against a shopping mall project turned into one of the biggest challenges in recent years to Mr Erdogan’s rule, …
PDF: ARSTRAT_IO_Newsletter_v13_no_07 Articles in this issue are: 1. Social Banditry and the Public Persona of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán 2. India Sets Up Social Media Monitoring Lab 3. Hacking the News: Information Warfare in the Age of Twitter 4. Information Operations Is Just another Media Format Vying For the Eyes of the Audience 5. China’s …
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Imagine if a senior democratic senator pulled this kind of asinine stunt during the Reagan or Bush II presidencies — Would not the neocons, with McCain in the lead, would howl about usurping the commander chief’s prerogatives? McCain’s Syria Photo-Op Included Rebel Kidnapper Spokesman Says Incident ‘Regrettable,’ McCain Didn’t Know by Jason Ditz Anti-War.com, May …
4GW is Alive and Well William S. Lind 25 May 2013 So “the world simply didn’t develop along the lines it (4GW) proposed”? How do you say that in Syriac? The basic error in Chet Richards’ piece of April 19, “Is 4GW dead?” is confusing the external and internal worlds. Internally, in the U.S. military and …
Report: Non-conventional armed violence and non-state actors: challenges for mediation and humanitarian action By Ivan Briscoe May 2013 Executive summary Some of the most lethal episodes of armed violence in recent years have taken place in countries that do not suffer from conflict according to its conventional definitions. At the same time new armed conflicts …
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I recently finished reading Roger Thompson’s Lessons Not Learned: The U.S. Navy’s Status Quo Culture (Naval Institute Press, 2007). I urge those who think we enjoy now and will enjoy in the future some sort of superiority on the seas to read this book. You will find tidbits that you contest, but you will also …
