Search Results for “war is a racket” – Page 61

2010/07/212013/03/03

Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Negative)

The long list below is organized along the lines of the Revolutionary Prediction Matrix discussed in a short Marine Corps University paper and a longer graduate thesis, to wit: Political-Legal; Socio-Economic; Ideo-Cultural; Techno-Demographic; and Natural-Geographic. It is also available online as Chapter 20: “21st Century Counterintelligence: Evaluating the Health of the Nation” in the new …

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2010/07/09

Afghan Self-stabilization from Below – and Above

As the end game begins for NATO and the US in Afghanistan, and as the potential mineral wealth of that unhappy land is revealed, one confronts despair when contemplating the fate of the Afghans. With the Taliban poised to move once more into the coming power vacuum and exploit a resurgent drug trade as well …

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2010/07/032010/07/03

Journal: Moral Intellectual Vacuum in USA

You gotta love it when the War Party reveals its desperation to come up with yet another soundbyte to justify continuing the long Afghan War — a war becoming known to cynics in the Hall of Mirrors that is Versailles on the Potomac as the Great Afghan Cash Cow, because it is a golden cornucopia …

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2010/01/312010/01/31

Journal: US Office for Contingency Operations

TIP OF THE HAT to Manna The idea of a new agency for S&R ops was put forward a few months ago by Stuart Bowen, IG for Iraq reconstruction. After reviewing DoD and DoS efforts there, he proposed a US Office for Contingency Operations (USOCO). A whole of government agency to unify command and avoid …

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2009/12/012009/12/02

Search: QDR “four forces after next”

Quotes don’t seem to add anything to the Word Press search engine, but even without quotes this does not come up. Separating QDR from four forces does produce partial results. Below is the core orignal graphic. Today, with the deflation of the dollar by 50% in the past ten years, these numbers would be doubled, …

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2009/11/232009/11/23

PACOM Week in Review Ending 22 Nov 09

Hot Topics CN: China’s Cyberwars 11/19/09 CN: AP NewsBreak: China holds, mistreats US geologist 11/19/09 CN: China legislator seeks to criminalise banquets: report 11/21/09 ID: Indonesian president issues order to publicly expose high-profile bank scam 11/23/09 IN: Security still lacking one year after Mumbai attacks 11/21/09 KP: Defector tells of life in North Korean army …

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2009/10/30

Journal: Abnormal Abductive Advances

‘Impossible’ Device Could Propel Flying Cars, Stealth Missiles David Hambling October 29, 2009 The Emdrive is an electromagnetic drive that would generate thrust from a closed system — “impossible” say some experts. To critics, it’s flat-out junk science, not even worth thinking about. But its inventor, Roger Shawyer, has doggedly continued his work. As Danger Room …

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