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2015/10/312016/12/08

Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part I in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Updated November 15, 2016 Robert Steele This is the author’s preliminary draft of the first of three monographs focused …

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2015/10/252015/10/24

Chuck Spinney: Drones of War — Send Money

In the last week, much has been made of the leaked DoD briefing entitled ISR Support to Small Footprint (CT) Operations – Somalia and Yemen, dated February 2013. To date, all the reports I have read, save one, focus on the “critical shortfalls” of drone warfare revealed in these slides — see, for example The Intercept, which broke …

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2015/10/252015/10/24

Mongoose: 1983 Nuclear Scare – Understanding How US Inspires Fear in Others — and How We Don’t “Get” That…

In 1983 ‘war scare,’ Soviet leadership feared nuclear surprise attack by U.S. A nuclear weapons command exercise by NATO in November 1983 prompted fear in the leadership of the Soviet Union that the maneuvers were a cover for a nuclear surprise attack by the United States, triggering a series of unparalleled Soviet military responses, according …

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2015/10/242015/10/24

Yoda: Delusions of Grand Strategy

Delusions of  Grand Strategy The Problem With Washington’s Planning Obsession EXTRACT The ritual of crafting strategy encourages participants to spin a narrative that magnifies the scope of the national interest and exaggerates global threats. The panel concluded, “Instead of unconstrained, long term analysis by planners who were encouraged to challenge preexisting thinking, the QDRs became …

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2015/10/24

Berto Jongman: 25 European Countries Collaborated with Rendition and Torture in Secret Prisons

Victims of U.S. Rendition & Torture Starting to Reclaim Rights Says Council of Europe Rights Chief More than 25 European countries cooperated with the CIA’s rendition, torture and secret prison program, and the quest for accountability continues today. “This is a sordid story that does Europe shame,” says Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe’s commissioner …

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2015/10/212015/10/20

Mongoose: Anglo-Saxon Bankers Organized WWII for Profit

Anglo-Saxon bankers organized the Second World War To mark the 70th anniversary of the victory against Nazism, we publish a study of Valentin Katasonov on the financing of the NSDAP and rearmament of the Third Reich. The author draws on material published in 2012 that confirm the organization of the Second World War by …

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2015/10/202015/10/18

Sepp Hasslberger: Mental Illness as Healing Force

What a Shaman Sees in A Mental Hospital In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born.