The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This captures my continuing anguish. How American Troops in Afghanistan became Unreal (Jones) Ann Jones writes at Tomdispath.com Informed Comment Posted on 11/08/2013 by Juan Cole The last time I saw American soldiers in Afghanistan, they were silent. Knocked out by gunfire and explosions that left them grievously injured, as well as drugs administered by …
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Five Takeaways from a Decade of War Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, in a keynote address at the Center for Strategic and International Studies this week, signaled to military commanders that they should assume the across-the-board, automatic spending cuts imposed by sequester over the next decade will remain in place indefinitely. “We do not have …
America’s Threat-Centric [Lie-Based] Education System: Out of Date and Out of Time “History is a story. That’s why we fight over history. We make sense of ourselves, the world and ourselves in the world through the struggle to tell the truth through stories. Facts have to be contextualised to become the truth. And that truth …
India-Pakistan: Relations are trending downward and tension is up because of a surge in attacks from Pakistan in the past two months along the Line of Control and across the International Border of India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. This week two attacks occurred: on the night of 22 October and the night of 24 October. …
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A New Kind of War Is Being Legalized There’s a dark side to the flurry of reports and testimony on drones, helpful as they are in many ways. When we read that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch oppose drone strikes that violate international law, some of us may be inclined to interpret that as …
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1,000,000 dead Iraqis: two decades of US military intervention Big Data Analytics Master’s Degrees: 20 Top Programs Phi Beta Iota: Most big data is crap. You analyze crap, you get crap analysis. Without a holistic analytic model, a deep commitment to true cost economics, and the ability to collect AND PROCESS all relevant data, big …
Please note Army Chief of Staff General Raymond T. Odierno‘s updated strategic priorities for the US Army, arranged in five (5) categories. PDF Slide Show: CSA Strategic Priorities vFinal 16Oct13 From those, here is an extract . EXTRACTS: [DOWNSIZED ARMY; EXPEDITIONARY] – Downsize, transition, and then sustain a smaller, but ready and capable Total Army …
