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Marcus Aurelius: Hagel Choosing Bad Platforms Over Good People

Looks as if SECDEF has identified the alternatives — humans or hardware– and has picked hardware. Hagel: Pentagon Must Choose Between People or Platforms WASHINGTON — The Pentagon might have to cancel many modernization programs over a decade-long period should mandatory federal spending caps remain in place over the next decade, US Defense Secretary Chuck …

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Berto Jongman: The Chilling State of Cyber Affairs

The Chilling State of Cyber Affairs With all the attention pointed towards PRISM, another interesting publication was virtually overlooked. Earlier last month, a taskforce belonging to the US DoD’s Defense Science Board (DSB) released a final report titled “Resilient Military Systems and the Advanced Cyber Threat” [PDF], that reports on the findings of an 18-month …

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John Robb: Iran, Cyberwar, and the Perils of Lazy (or Corrupt) Thinking

Iran, Cyberwar, and the Perils of Lazy Thinking For those of you that don’t know, the US doesn’t spend much time/energy/effort on military strategy and theory.  They do spend money on political scientists and engineers to provide a substitute.  Regardless, this deficit means the US continually falls victim to strategic errors due to stale military …

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Jim Dean: Israel as an Existential Threat to Everyone Else — And Another Reason to Flush the US Congress in 2014

Syria Regime Change – Blowback on Steroids Jim Dean with Franklin Lamb Veterans Today, 7 June 2013 Franklin Lamb has the best piece below that I have seen on the Jewish/Israeli Lobby panic at the disaster which their anticipated slowly roasting regime change for Syria has been. But Frank either skipped or ran out of …

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1976-2015: Analytic, Methodological, & Technical Models 2.2

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Intel-Models Updated 5 September 2015 1976 PREDICTING REVOLUTION Conditions existing in USA today are in red. 1976 Thesis: Theory, Risk Assessment, and Internal War: A Framework for the Observation of Revolutionary Potential 2011 Thinking About Revolution in the USA and Elsewhere (Full Text Online for Google Translate) Graphic: Pre-Conditions of Revolution Graphic: Preconditions …

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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 …

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