The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Yet again, the Air Force is trying to get rid of the A-10. The matter has been covered in the defense-specialized, but not the major, news media for about a week. It comes as no real surprise to long-time observers of the A-10, but it is a very unpleasant surprise to US ground forces who have observed–all too …
There are some interesting and provocative materials on counter-insurgency and 4th generation warfare at two very different websites. The Fabius Maximus website has an essay, with many important links, titled “How I learned to stop worrying and love Fourth Generation War. We can win at this game.” Find it at http://fabiusmaximus.com/2013/09/18/4gw-insurgency-55320/. George Kenny’s very different and diverse …
Long in the making, Vanity Fair is today releasing, on-line, it’s article on the F-35 — to appear in a future issue. The article focuses on the atrocious management of the F-35–from the very start from all parties, including the absence of oversight by DOD of either Lockheed-Martin or the military services, especially the Marine Corps. …
Major Don Vandergriff (USA, ret.) has released the second–expanded and updated–edition of his critical analysis of the Army’s officer corps, The Path to Victory: America’s Army and the Revolution in Human Affairs. The book explains why and how the Army’s leadership has simultaneously designed itself for bureaucratic success and leadership failure in battle. It is …
There is a devastating review of the quality of Army leadership at the new issue of Armed Forces Journal. At Armed Forces Journal, it is an article by Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis (“Purge the Generals”), and it merits the attention of anyone following military affairs, I believe. If you think Army leadership is an island of …
Global Hawk (Block 30), one of the more obvious vampires sucking money out of the defense budget, has been disinterred from its coffin by corporate go-fers in Congress. The story of this high cost, low performance drone makes obvious that filibuster abuse and political dogmatism are not the only problems in Congress. Two really excellent pieces of work …
Continue reading “Winslow Wheeler: Global Hawk Corruption — Two Deep Looks”
“If Congress goes along [by approving President Obama’s 2014 DOD budget request], Pentagon spending levels will exceed any previous high by any other president in any year in peace or in war since the death of President Roosevelt in 1945, except for President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2008.” “…current military spending is lapping …
