The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
From a relatively local yokel paper, among the best issue summaries I’ve seen. From my foxhole in the Pentagon, things are bad now and appear to be getting worse fast. Fayetteville (NC) Observer July 19, 2013 Nation Needs Leadership, Not Gimmicks At Fort Bragg, a name almost synonymous with “readiness,” Congress is idly flirting with …
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I attach two-day old SECDEF estimates for Congress of what will happen if sequester continues into next fiscal year. Big idea: emphasis on RIFs of military and civilian personnel in preference to furloughs of DoD civilians. SECDEF doesn’t mention any specific numbers, but following would not surprise me: *Active Army military personnel: RIF of 70K …
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Worth a look. The Gist Mill – Strategic Social Media Analysis The ability to rapidly ingest, identify, monitor and exploit relationships, trends and collective thought evolving out of Internet-based social networks will be the most critical analytic capability requirement of the next decade. The fact that these networks exist in plain sight, are vastly dense, …
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Daily Kos: NSA Rejecting Every FOIA Request Made by U.S. Citizens NYT: In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers Of N.S.A. See Also: GCHQ Surveillance: The Power of Britain’s Data Vacuum Rickard Falkvinge: Sweden Works for NSA Which Works for Israel, Against Russia and Also Europe? Snowden Interview: NSA ‘In Bed Together with the Germans’
This seems like a relatively simple question. For different reasons, both POTUS and Congress apaprently seek to break the military. POTUS’ view, arguably rooted in anticolonialism, focuses on reducing the US, to include the military, to the status of the Third World, while in Congressional (read: Tea Party) minds, the military is the principal cash cow and thus acceptable/desirable …
No Clipping These Wings By David Ignatius Washingtonpost.com, July 5, 2013 For an illustration of why the federal government has become so unmanageable, consider the Air Force’s attempt last year to cut its budget by retiring unneeded warplanes. This sensible policy ran into a shredder — largely because of the political clout of the Air …
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Circulating among SOF retired. The 213 Things Skippy is Not Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army At the bottom of the page is a little info about “Skippy”, the originator of the list. The ones listed after “Mike’s addenda” were added by an author, and a friend of mine, named Michael Z. Williamson. Extracted …
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