The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Palantir Causes Army to Slam on the DCGS Anti Skid Brakes My hunch is that there are some unhappy campers in the US Army’s DCGS program. Hey, delays interrupt the billing cycles for affected vendors. Based on my experience with some of DC’s biggest defense contractors, billing is often Job One for some folks. It …
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Back to basics: Army dials up traditional soldiering once again Capt. Ronald Fletcher has met an officer candidate who couldn’t find north on a compass, a sergeant who couldn’t complete an inventory of equipment, and “far too many soldiers who couldn’t fire a weapon straight, let alone understand how the weapon functions.” . . . …
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GAO DCGS Letter B-412746 A few days ago, I stumbled upon a copy of a letter from the GAO concerning Palantir Technologies dated May 18, 2016. The letter became available to me a few days after the 18th, and the US holiday probably limited circulation of the document. The letter is from the US Government …
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If CSA said this publicly, it was a very risky move for him personally. Absolutely best thing I’ve seen attributed to him. US Army Chief Sounds Alarm: Military at ‘High Risk’ WASHINGTON — Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley sounded the alarm that the US Army is currently in a state of “high risk” when it comes to being …
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Surfing the web with reservists….as published in Military Intelligence, July-September 2015. PDF (4 Pages): (U)_OSINT_Battle_Rhythm_(MIPB_Jul-Sep_15) Since the end of the Cold War, and especially over the last 10 to 12 years with the reduction of military and civilian staffs at combatant commands and national agencies, more and more “real-world” intelligence production at operational and strategic …
Intelligence Support to Urban Military Operations To the eyes of a military planner, a city presents “an elaborate combination of horizontal, vertical, interior, and exterior forms superimposed on a landscape’s natural relief, drainage, and vegetation.” A newly reissued U.S. Army manual contemplates the difficulties facing military action in the urban environment with a focus on …
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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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