The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Return of the Jedi BY MAJ. GEN. ROBERT H. SCALES (RET.) It’s that time again. About once a decade, the military services attempt to reform how they educate officers. This time, the catalyst is a series of Senate and House hearings on how well the services educate officers. The Defense Science Board will begin a …
Essays, Fundamentals, a Corner Stone October 6, 2009 Kevin Alexander Gray I was truly delighted to have this book arrive today, along with Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era, which I will write up tomorrow morning. Although the essays date back to 1994 this book (and the one …
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10 Steps To Victory In Afghanistan Reform or Go Home (David Kilcullen) End Suicide Attacks (Robert Pape) If You Can’t Beat Them, Let Them Join (Linda Robinson) Pump Up the Police (Anthony Cordesman) Kick Out Corruption (Nader Nadery) Learn to Tax From the Taliban (Gretchen Peters) Polls Have the Power (Merrill McPeak) Take a Risk …
Pushes the Re-Set Button on Both Gore and Lomborg October 3, 2009 Doug L. Hoffman and Allen Simmons The more I read, the less I know and the more frustrated I grow with the insanity of academic, government, corporate, and non-governmental stovepipes of knowledge in isolation. Right up front this book, read crossing the Atlantic …
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Burned by Obama:Wall St. execs feel betrayed By CHARLES GASPARINO,September 29, 2009 Obama, according to Wall Street people who regularly deal with his economic and budget officials, is acting as if he has a blank check to do what he wants, while ignoring the longterm costs of his policies. Paul Rahe: Obama’s wrecking crew September …
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Much More Than a Novel, This Is the Real Deal October 2, 2009 Phillip Oliver Otts As a recovering spy who has published and agitated for intelligence reform over the years, I generally have little patience for spy novels less the George Smiley series by John Le Carre. Been there, done that. This book is …
Quite fortuitously, the Strategic Studies Institute has placed in the public domain a superb monograph by Justic Kelly and Mike Brennan on ALIEN: How Operational Art Devoured Strategy (september 2009). It is a very good read, along with our summary of the failed 2008 Whole of Government conference that SSI sponsored, which followed the failed …
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