Marcus Aurelius: US Pacific Fleet N-2 (Intelligence Boss) Relieved Under White House Pressure for Speaking Openly About Chinese Military Plans and Activities

In this age of the daily indiscretion, a relatively senior naval intelligence officer has been openly relieved of duty. He said, orally and in writing, things that conflicted with Administration’s views. Two articles follow: First from Navy Times, a summary that says he was relieved, that he said things that SECDEF, CNO, and CSA either …

Marcus Aurelius: Daniel Goure on Needing an Army — Robert Steele on Irresponsible Government

I think article below is spot on, but I also don’t think it will matter.  Given the current national trajectory, it will take another Kasserine Pass, another Task Force SMITH, to get America to pay attention to T.R. Fehrenbach (“… young men in the mud. …”), to the eternal truth that the ultimate arbiter of …

Marcus Aurelius: Top Polygrapher Caught Selling Secrets to Singapore….Proxy for China?

A little irony here — one of USG’s premier spycatchers accused of committing espionage by flogging info about polygraph TTP and vulnerabilities. Senior Official at Federal Polygraph School Accused of Espionage Scott W. Carmichael, a recently retired counterintelligence investigator with the Defense Intelligence Agency, has accused Donald Krapohl, Special Assistant to the Chief, National Center …

Marcus Aurelius: The President Is Lying To America — About Us, And About ISIS

For consideration. Pentagon Official: The President Is Lying To America — About Us, And About ISIS EXTRACT President Barack Obama has taken a lot of flak since his Sunday night “60 Minutes” interview, in which he blamed the intelligence community for his failure to tackle the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and …

Marcus Aurelius: STRATFOR on Scottish Referendum Plus Secession RECAP

One of their better pieces. The Origins and Implications of the Scottish Referendum Geopolitical Weekly Stratfor, Tuesday, September 16, 2014 By George Friedman The idea of Scottish independence has moved from the implausible to the very possible. Whether or not it actually happens, the idea that the union of England and Scotland, which has existed for …

Marcus Aurelius: General Robert Scales on Defeating ISIS – Comment by Robert Steele

MG(R) Scales, a former Commandant of the Army War College, is nothing if not a controversial character.  I don’t necessarily disagree with his assertion, but I have a couple of practical questions: Where are we going to get adequate numbers of personnel of the quality required to implement the McChrystal method on the scale proposed by …