The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
One Tribe at a Time Can the U.S. military devise a successful strategy to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan? It already has the outline of a potentially successful strategy, just read Major Jim Gant’s “One Tribe at a Time (A Strategy for Success in Afghanistan)”, previously posted here, Reference: One Tribe at …
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NeoOpticon: the EU Security-Industrial Complex (Transnational Institute) As the title communicates. Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism Report Card (WMD Commission) Failing grade in isolation from all the more pressing threats (poverty, disease, environment). Al Qaeda Weapons of Mass Destruction Threat: Hype or Reality? (Harvard) More focus on the symptom instead of the problem (US …
Full-body scanner blind to bomb parts: Todger, yes. Combustibles, no (The Register) U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google (CNN Opinion Online) ‘Shadow Elite’: Information Is Power And Who’s Controlling Our Information? (Huffington Post) Moslems Fighting Moslems Becomes Respectable (Strategy Figure) Gates Sees Fallout From Troubled Ties With Pakistan (New York Times) Al-Qaeda Has Trained Female …
NOTE: This offering ends 9 Feb 10 unless we can find a volunteer to do once a week. Hot Topics AA: Collective security forces unlikely to intervene in event of war in Karabakh 01/21/10 AM: Azerbaijani hostage on Armenian television 01/18/10 BA: BALKANS: The Year Bosnia Breaks 01/21/10 GR: Greek Think Tank Urges Government To …
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The Washington Post (headline and link below) purports to explain how the CIA fell victim to a series of miscalculations that make it vulnerable to the devastating attack on Forward Operating Base (FOB) Chapman, a CIA base in Khost Province, Afghanistan, but it does not pass the smell test. Of course, coming from the Washington …
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Phi Beta Iota: From an individual who trained many of the NCTC analysts, is fully familiar with the database mess as well as the management mind-sets, and wishes to see America get the best value for its $75 billion a year. We have added emphasis (bold) to the two paragraphs below. 18 January 2010 The …
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Phi Beta Iota: For over a decade we’ve been tracking the Chinese as they “wage peace” across the Southern Hemisphere, and it is with growing frustration that we recognize that the U.S. Government is simply not paying attention to the real world. See also: Memorandum: Chinese Irregular Warfare; Journal: CINCPAC Slams IC on China; Review: …
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