The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
School Solution: To fabricate the worst possible threat, each service taking its own liberties, so as to justify the buying of the most outrageously complex and generally unreliable weapons and mobility systems with extremely heavy logistics tails, none of which can be supported by national or tactical intelligence “systems” also built by variations of the …
Searches are a way we learn, thank you. What most people do not realize when they look at Gordon Michael Scallion’s vision is that he is positing changes one hundred years out. The fact is that the sea really is rising (slowly — the Maldives and Bangladesh are the two most current cases of this …
So Much Strategy, So Little Strategic Direction Cdr Michael Junge, USN Proceedings Magazine, February 2012 Vol 138/2/1,308 There is a strategy problem in the Navy. Take as primary evidence that only three and a half years after completing A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower , its primary author is now in favor of crafting …
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UPDATE: 1 January 2013 from Spanish Dancer: What is most striking to me, and to a few others I have spoken to recently, is the SECDEF quote early in the paper. If we follow its premise it puts anyone who opposes our projection of power in the cross hairs. It is this doctrinal fluff that …
CLIMATE: Amid budget scrutiny, CIA shutters climate center Annie Snider, E&E reporter Greenwire: Monday, November 19, 2012 With the U.S. intelligence budget shrinking, the CIA has quietly shut down its Center on Climate Change and National Security — a project that was launched with the support of Leon Panetta when he led the agency, but …
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Grover Norquist vs. the Pentagon By Michael D. Ostrolenk The American Conservative • October 24, 2012 Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, famously quipped that he didn’t want to do away with government, merely “shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” He is best known …
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Where Does Milllons in Pentagon Contracts Go? NICK TURSE – Mother Jones While American children are going to bed hungry, and their schools all too often are falling apart, we have squandered untold billions on the infrastructure and schools of the countries where we have created wars, producing astonishing profits for war contractors, and little …
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