The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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Phi Beta Iota: Blessed commons sense from a Captain and intelligence professional in the U.S. Army. When we first entered Iraq we were told to avoid the immams and tribal chiefs, and this wasted at least four years of key leader engagement. Neither the secret world nor the military “Human Terrain Team” program have gotten …
Chuck Spinney sends…. The Afghan debacle is becoming a case study of how political debate in Versailles drips in a naturally self-organizing way to protect the dysfunctional status quo. As I indicated yesterday and in September, the fundamental flaw that set the stage for the current policy making fiasco was the unexamined analytical hole in …
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For over many years now Phi Beta Iota has been emphasizing both the inappropriate secrecy and obscurity contrived for our dead and wounded, and the almost total black-out on both amputees (many of them multiple amputees) and suicides. We now know that Gulf I brought back over 250,000 disabled veterans, and that the toxic brew …
U.S. Nonprofit Screws up Iraq Jobs Program, Now Working on Afghanistan Repeat By Nathan Hodge November 11, 2009 As Joanna Nathan recently warned at ForeignPolicy.com, the U.S. government’s business-as-usual approach of outsourcing development work could have very negative consequences for the mission in Afghanistan. “If gaudy new mansions built in the local ‘narco-tecture’ style are …
A Disappointing Year With Obama By William Pfaff Posted on Nov 10, 2009 Who would have thought a year ago that most of the issues of conflict in America’s foreign relations would be made worse during the first year following Barack Obama’s election as U.S. president? Even those disputes or differences that were appeased or quiet a …
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Way cool–the usual suspects led by LtCol Nagle (now retired) unusually well-organized. Phi Beta Iota will cover this event and issue a trip report, but there is no substitute for being there if you can make it. We have started on a new article or chapter addressing a topic that was shut out of both …
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