The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Over 200 Marines died in the barracks by the beach in Beirut, in their sleep, because the White House failed to understand that the strategic situation had changed; because chicken hawk staff approved the launching of battleship salvos (think really pissed-off Volkswagons in flight) that certified the US was “taking sides” rather than seeking to …
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O’s Afghan woes White House stifles general September 3, 2009 The classified status report from Afghanistan by Gen. Stanley McChrystal was censored by the White House before its submission. As a result, it’s all bun and no burger. According to multiple (angry) sources, McChrystal — our top soldier on the ground — intended to ask …
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Sometimes reality and fantasy collide in extraordinary ways. Below are four headlines and teaser editorial comments, click on the headlines to read the details, but the details do not really matter, here is the lunacy all together in one pot.
Tip of the hat to the New York Post, the primary outlet for Ralph Peters’ syndicated column. Below the article is reproduced in its entirety for archival purposes and with permission of the author. Clicking on the photograph leads to the original article for as long as it remains available. More Troops Aren’t The Answer …
Ralph Peters stands out in Phi Beta Iota’s tag cloud because among the 2000 or so authors represented here, he has both multiple non-fictions books to his name that we have reviewed, and he has given provocative presentations on more than one occasion to the multinational public intelligence audience that we began nurturing in 1992. …
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Ralph Peters is the only author other than Will Durant to have his own shelf in the OSS/EIN/PBI library. He can anger, infuriate, provoke and sometimes even drive insane those who are impatient with controversy. We hold him in the highest regard as one who consistently speaks truth to power. See the reviews of his …
There is an excellent overview of the new book by James Mattis, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, and I recommend the overview to one and all: In Book, Former Defense Chief Mattis Sideswipes President Trump’s Leadership Skills I will not be spending time or money on this book because I know from experience that …
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