The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Richard Wright’s contribution is more interesting to me since the origins of the entire effort to develop this high value targeting was undertaken by General Dell Daily at the Naval Post Graduate School. I knew the research team, there were joint to the bone. Unfortunately the IC as a whole has tried to automate the …
Richard Wright The Triumph of Tactical Intelligence The Andrew J. Bacevich article, “Slouching Toward Persistent War” (NYT 19 Feb 2012) points among other things to the rise of Special Operations Forces (SOF) as the instrument of choice to carry out clandestine warfare against individual and groups designated enemies of the U.S. (or close U.S. allies …
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SmallWarsJournal.com, February 17, 2012 This Week at War: The Toughest Op By Robert Haddick In my Foreign Policy column, I discuss whether Admiral William McRaven’s request for greater operational freedom for Special Operations Command will extend to an unconventional warfare campaign in Syria. This week, the New York Times reported on a draft proposal circulating …
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Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations House Committee on Foreign Affairs Baluchistan Hearing, February 8, 2012 Testimony of Ralph Peters, military analyst and author “PAKISTAN AS A FAILING EMPIRE” 2012-02-09 Ralph Peters House Testimony, Baluchistan and Pakistan (8 pages, doc) Introductory remarks: This testimony arises from three premises. First, we cannot analyze global events through reassuring …
ARSTRAT IO Newsletter v12 no 03 Table of Contents This newsletter covers December and January. Articles included are: 1. 9th Annual Army Global Information Operations Conference 2. A Speed Bump for Pentagon’s Information Ops 3. Special Forces Get Social in New Psychological Operation Plan 4. Hazards of …
Inspired by the extraordinary ignorance of all the Republican participants in the primaries, less Ron Paul, a FACT has emerged that is of such importance that I am moved to upgrade the Event Report I did on 27 September 2010, recording the wisdom and knowledge of MajGen Robert Scales, USA (Ret) PhD, speaking at the …
POLITICS The `K Street Clausewitz’ Remembered By CHUCK SPINNEY | December 30, 2011 Mark Thompson’s 27 December posting, “General Newt,” alerted readers of Battleland to Karen Tumulty’s pastiche of mini portraits of Newt Gingrich’s martial prowess. Mark highlighted one the few passages that zeroed in on the insubstantial essence of the K Street Clausewitz. Unable to contain my …
