The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, appearing on CNN with Fareed Zakaria today, Sunday, 24 January 2010 at 1300, has just turned in the single most brilliant and statemanlike precise (on Haiti) that we have been privileged to witness in over a decade. We’ve been down on Brzezinski during that period because he has not given up his compulsion …
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In Need of Port Repairs, Haiti Relocating 400,000 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian officials are planning a massive relocation of 400,000 people from makeshift camps to the outskirts of the capital as the U.S. government tackles repairs to the damaged main port — dual efforts to help residents survive the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake. The …
British Search And Rescue Team Turned Away From Port-Au-Prince There were reports that the airport at Port-au-Prince had run out of aviation fuel, one of the factors that is understood to have led the US military to close it. . . . The scene at Santo Domingo airport was one of chaos, uncertainty and often …
Phi Beta Iota: The below material is a bit cluttered as it was built up over time as the individual pieces came to light. The important point in our view is that each element of the dynamic planning model is an intelligence (decision-support) requirement, and the U.S. Intelligence Community is completely unable to address of …
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Phi Beta Iota: See also the many superb references in the US Agency for International Development (AID) Development Experience Library. In our own experience encountering AID across Asia and Latin America, their capacity for ground truth and grass roots effectiveness is phenomenal, held back only by Congressional mandates that are politically motivated and operationally insane–such …
McChrystal Sees Victory Ahead In Afghanistan By Drew Brown, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Saturday, January 2, 2010 “We are not viewed as occupiers now, ” Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, told Stars and Stripes in an interview Friday.
Interview With Dutch Major General Mart de Kruif, Former Commander, Regional Command South Phi Beta Iota: Read every word. Highlights include: ;1) Every province is difference (see General Zinni’s characterization of the six different Viet-Nam wars in Battle Ready) 2) Climate and Ops Tempo, not the Taliban, are the major challenge 3) Taliban losing, resorting …
