DefDog: (Retired) Military Leaders Oppose Hagel

Dishonest slime. (Retired) Military leaders oppose Hagel nomination Center for Security Policy | Jan 29, 2013 January 29, 2013 (Washington, D.C.): A distinguished group of fourteen retired generals and admirals, representing all branches of the United States Armed Forces, has signed a letter opposing the nomination of Sen. Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense. The letter …

Review (Guest): The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal

Nick Bryant 5.0 out of 5 stars Read it and weep, then seethe… April 22, 2010 By Thomas J. Breidenbach “Deep politics” is scholar Peter Dale Scott’s term for historical machinations such as drug-running and assassinations which form covert if systemic features of the contemporary state and which are all-too naively dismissed as “conspiracy theories.” …

Marcus Aurelius: New Special Forces Command, Mexico as Rabbit Hole, Zetas on Steroids Coming Soon

Invite your attention to both article immediately below and four comments on it, second below.  Some of the comments appear pretty sound to me.  Integrity of any institution of Mexican (MX) government seems questionable — “plata o plumba” is a long tradition in Latin America and the MX government has been in the press many …

Chuck Spinney: Why we lose wars at ever increasing cost…

Don’t hold your breath: One impediment to understanding what works and what does not work in war is an out-of-control secrecy system that clogs up DoD’s own OODA loops with over-classified needlessly compartmented information.  The barriers within this system work to stretch out our own decision cycles.  But, as the American strategist Colonel John Boyd showed, one …