The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
John L. Cook 4.0 out of 5 stars Deep Insights, A Couple of Misses, Certainly Recommended as Core Reading, November 8, 2014 A hold over from my time in Afghanistan, I finally got around to reading this book on a long flight and give it a solid four stars. There is some very good eye …
Kevin Sites 4.0 out of 5 stars Quick read travelogue, some nuggets, some flaws, October 22, 2014 Previously I have reviewed, very favorably, two other books by this author, In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars and The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done …
Failure Is Success: How American Intelligence Works in the Twenty-First Century “While taxpayer dollars flowed into your coffers, no one considered it a problem that the country lacked 17 overlapping outfits bent on preventing approximately 400,000 deaths by firearms in the same years; nor 17 interlocked agencies dedicated to safety on our roads, where more …
Americans Now Fear ISIS Sleeper Cells Are Living in the U.S., Overwhelmingly Support Military Action Glenn Greenwald The Intercept, 8 September 2014 EXTRACTS What kind of country goes around bombing people with no strategic purpose and with little motive other than to “flex muscles” and “show toughness”? This answer also seems clear: one that is …
Being read in Europe. Gen. Allen: Destroy the Islamic State Now The brutal murder of the brave American journalist James Foley is meant to directly terrorize the world’s media, the international community, and the United States. If all the actions of the Islamic State, or IS, to date weren’t sufficiently reprehensible, this act and the potential …
This is an informative and important report written by one of the best reporters covering events in the Middle East. I reformatted it slightly and highlighted it to emphasize points I think are important. If you find this distracting, this link will take readers to the original. Iraq crisis: How Saudi Arabia helped Isis take over the north of …
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Saudi Arabia Funding of Islamic State”
Article below started to circulate in the office on Friday and appears in today’s Washington Post. LTG (R) Barno is spot-on. He describes the Army I retired from and, substantially, the Army I was commissioned into in 1971. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the threats were IEDs, snipers, etc. In the Army to return, the threats …
Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: US Army’s New Enemy Is Itself”
