Winslow Wheeler: Purge the Generals to Fix the Army + Flag Corruption and Ineptitude RECAP

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 …

NIGHTWATCH: Terrorist Threat Analytics 101 — US Has Neither Improved Capabilities Nor Learned Anything New Since 9/11

Terrorist Alert: Special Comment. It is always hazardous to comment on events without having had access to the underlying source material about them. This is especially true of threatening developments. Thus it is not possible to comment on the quality or accuracy of the information on which the current terrorist alert rests. What makes this …

Marcus Aurelius: BREAKING – Defense to Protect Hardware Contracts, Savage the People

There is lot of stuff flying around Pentagon these days.  There is memo that underlies article next below but I haven’t seen it yet, trying to get from Sister service.  Irrespective of your opinion of  publication, this might be very good week to buy  current Army Times (12 Aug 2013) because it has some data and …

Stephen E. Arnold: Search Hits the “Big O” – Robert Steele Comments on IT’s Three Sucking Chest Wounds

Big O Explained: Why Systems Are Alike? Posted: 27 Jul 2013 04:30 AM PDT In several of my recent lectures, I pointed out that most end users cannot differentiate among search systems. The comment made about these systems is often, “Why can’t these systems be like Google?” I concluded that the similarity of requests suggests …

Alessandro Politi: Global Outlook 2013 from the Military Centre for Strategic Studies, Ministry of Defence, Italy

This is the first-ever MoD short-term forecast and global vision (in its 67 year history). GLOBAL OUTLOOK 2013 PDF:  2013-06 Italian MOD Global Forecast Executive Summary The next two years will be marked more by power vacuums and gaps than by a reassuring graceful degradation of the world order or by the rise of new …

Gordon Duff: US Swath of Destruction a Pre-Planned Methodical Population Cleansing Strategy + Eugenics Meta-RECAP

Population Cleansing Wars Gordon Duff Veterans Today, 15 July 2013 It is a mistake to look on what has become endless wars, first centering in the Middle East, as struggles over religion, political theories, sectarian struggles or post-colonial realignments.  Each hypothesis fails. Increasingly, intelligence analysts are agreeing on one thing, there is clear evidence of …

Mini-Me: Uzbekistan Wants to Join NATO, Conquer Eurasia [We Do Not Make This Stuff Up] — Full Reading [English Below the Line] Makes Clear This Is A Manifesto — From Water to Genocide to Labor to Historical Grievances

Huh? Uzbekistan Media: We Should Join NATO, Conquer Eurasia A recent piece in Uzbekistan’s state-sanctioned media has advocated joining NATO and taking over the territory of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and most of the rest of Eurasia. The piece, published on 12news.uz, was taken down shortly after being published, but was preserved on inoSMI.ru.  [PBI: English translation …