The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
From what I’ve read over last few months, some of you may take umbrage with title or narrative of this article. Gen. Dempsey, Straight Shooter By Walter Pincus Washington Post, July 2, 2013, Pg. 13 “For the first time our competence and character are being evaluated by experts and pundits while we fight.” That was …
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Two articles follow: one posits a seemingly global anti-US opposition, an Anti-American Network (AAN), and the other posits that political warfare is the answer to the Middle East portion of the problem. IMHO, both are worth considering. Further believe that, with respect to Boot & Doran’s approach, (a) coverage needs expansion to cover all the opponents Hirsch posits …
This is “the debate.” 2013-02-00 Roughhead on Cutting Army Saving Navy 2013-06-00 Hix and Simpson on Save Army
Everybody play nice together while the bulk of already inadequate and dwindling resources are weighted to Navy and Air Force in the Pacific. [Oh, BTW, in separate Armed Forces Journal reporting, twp Army officers, a major general and a colonel, assert that former Chief of Naval Operations ADM (Ret) Gary Roughead and Hoover Institution analyst Kori Schake have recommended …
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Dividing line Obama And Kerry Fail To Mask Foreign Policy Strains The two politicians appear to have different views over how Washington should exercise its influence across the globe, writes Geoff Dyer Financial Times, June 22, 2013, Pg. 4 When Barack Obama asked John Kerry to be his second-term secretary of state, the president appeared …
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Five Myths About The National Security Agency By James Bamford Washingtonpost.com, June 21, 2013 When the National Security Agency was created through a top-secret memorandum signed by President Harry Truman in 1952, the agency was so secret that only a few members of Congress knew about it. While the NSA gradually became known over the …
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Well worth reading between the lines. Socom Officials Work on Plan for Global Network By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., June 3, 2013 – About 100 people are hard at work at the U.S. Special Operations Command headquarters here on a new plan that will operationalize the way the …
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