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2015/10/312016/12/08

Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part I in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Updated November 15, 2016 Robert Steele This is the author’s preliminary draft of the first of three monographs focused …

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2015/10/252015/10/24

Chuck Spinney: Drones of War — Send Money

In the last week, much has been made of the leaked DoD briefing entitled ISR Support to Small Footprint (CT) Operations – Somalia and Yemen, dated February 2013. To date, all the reports I have read, save one, focus on the “critical shortfalls” of drone warfare revealed in these slides — see, for example The Intercept, which broke …

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2015/07/032015/07/01

Antechinus: US Navy Pays Millions for Windows XP Support

Navy re-ups with Microsoft for more Windows XP support The US Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) has closed a $9.1 million contract extension with Microsoft that the agency originally announced in April to further extend custom support for the venerable Windows XP operating system, as well as the Office 2003 suite and …

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2015/02/162015/02/16

Jan Oberg: Learn Conflict and Peace in 20 Minutes

The world is full of unnecessary violence and human suffering. Do you know anyone who’d like it to continue like that? If we educate ourselves and look outside the box, we can create a better world for all. Peace and security can be learnt, making conflict illiteracy and most of the violence a thing of …

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2015/02/03

John Robb: Bringing Down the (Corrupt) USA

Exploiting the Robocaller Gap Here’s an interesting US systempunkt — a systempunkt is the point in a big network where even a small attack would cause the entire network to fail. This systempunkt would enable a prepared individual the unique ability to shut down a large part of the US without shedding a drop of …

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2015/01/222015/01/22

Owl: For Military, Police, 1% – the Enemy is You

The so-called “Internet of things” seems to mean a lot of things. But for the government, which executes the orders of the 1% of the 1%, it’s primary value is to spy: “As Daniel Taylor, of Old Thinker News, points out, the militarization and weaponization of the digital space has been a long time coming, …

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2014/12/24

Review: Before the First Shots are Fired – How America Can Win or Lose Off the Battlefield

Tony Zinni and Tony Koltz Foreign Politics Beyond the Beltway By Andrew Lubin on September 6, 2014 Today’s foreign policy world seems like the bad old days of American indecision under Jimmy Carter; the Israel-Hamas war, Putin annexed the Crimea, President Obama’s red-lines in Syria are repeatedly ignored, and the Americans killed in Iraq seem …

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