DefDog: $15 Billion for Cyber-Command, Zero for Actual Needs + Meta-RECAP

The myths behind the spending — disavowed by true subject-matter experts, manipulated by the military-industrial-congressional complex (MICC) to spend more on vaporware…. RSA Conference: On the Subject of Cyber War and Industrial Espionage Talk of an impending ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ is not an uncommon image evoked during discussions of cyber threats to the critical infrastructure …

DefDog: Allah’s Divisions – Culturally Stupid Americans

We few, we happy few, who actually get it.  The opposite of the SOF motto that you cannot mass produce special forces, is that you WILL mass produce culturally-stupid conventional forces.  This is on the leadership — straight-leg Army flags have no clue and don’t want to have a clue. Cultural Cluelessness Threatens U.S. Commando …

DefDog: Rent-A General Business Continues As Usual…

Rent-A-General Business Booming Chris Frates National Journal, 7 February 2012 Two of the highest-ranking Pentagon officials to leave government in the past year have landed on a lucrative rainmaking board for the federal contracting arm of business-consulting giant Accenture. Former Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn and former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff James “Hoss” Cartwright have …