The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
‘No Boots on the Ground’ Is a Mantra, Not a Strategy By Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, U.S. Army retired and Lt. Gen. James M. Dubik, U.S. Army retired Army Magazine, 15 August 2014 No political or military leader responsible for the lives of citizens who become soldiers ever wants to give the order to put …
Really. This is not a spoof. If this is coming out of the National Center for Credibility Assessment, that must mean the school the Army runs for DoD down at Ft. Jackson, where they crank out polygraphers. The polygraphers must be pooping their shorts. They might have to go back to actually running investigations again. …
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Article below started to circulate in the office on Friday and appears in today’s Washington Post. LTG (R) Barno is spot-on. He describes the Army I retired from and, substantially, the Army I was commissioned into in 1971. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the threats were IEDs, snipers, etc. In the Army to return, the threats …
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Nothing surprising here but … Pentagon: Young Adults Too Fat, Tattooed, Uneducated for Military The American military is facing a serious personnel issue: More than two-thirds of today’s youth are too uneducated, have behavior issues, and are not physically fit enough for service. “We’re trying to make decision makers see this is a national-security matter …
Accurate? Ethical? Former NSA Director Charging $1 Million a Month to Reveal US Intelligence Methods. Gen. Keith Alexander, who recently retired from his position at the top of the National Security Agency, is reportedly meeting with top brass from the financial industry to discuss how to best protect sensitive information, and he’s likely to charge …
Invite your attention to message below. Then, invite your attention to what’s at the link contained within the message: 1. Bergdahl father tweet, apparently now removed. 2. Below tweet, message from a Dan Witmer, who asserts to have been colleague Bowe Bergdahl and further asserts SGT Bowe departed camp with knife, compass, and water, found gaps …
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GEN(R) Shinseki is catching flak, perhaps justified, perhaps not, for the deepening VA scandal. Invite your attention to attached as an indicator of what the man is capable of. Only issue I ever had with him was the black beret for everyone matter. EXTRACT: I think it ¡s important to point out that the Vision …
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