Journal: DoD Mind-Set Time Lags Most Fascinating

Pentagon Shifts Its Strategy To Small-Scale Warfare By August Cole and Yochi J. Dreazen Wall Street Journal  January 30, 2010  Pg. 4 The shift in strategy sets up potential conflicts with defense contractors and powerful lawmakers uneasy with the Pentagon’s growing focus on smaller-scale, guerilla warfare. In particular, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has come to …

Journal: MILNET Selected Headlines 28 Jan 10

Capabilities Of U.S. Intelligence Agencies Questioned Congressional critics have singled out the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), established as part of a sweeping intelligence overhaul after the September 11 attacks. “I do not (have), nor do I believe the DNI as currently constructed has, all of …

Journal: MILNET Selected Headlines

U.S. Mobilizes to Send Assistance to Haiti Phi Beta Iota: US military has been slow but more attentive than in the past.  They still lack Peace Jumpers, rapid-response peace flights, and multinational intelligence and logistics coordination “in a box.”  Afterthought:  PSYOP facilities, personnel, budget, and air leaflet capabilities could all be beneficially transfered to the …

Worth a Look: Rahm Emanuel conducting pogroms within Obama administration and Democratic Party

Phi Beta Iota: This is a replay of a Wayne Madsen report.  Over lunch we checked with our most connected consultant and learned that this is roughly half right, with some of the specifics names and methods not right, but that over-all there is general consensus on three points:  Rahm is playing dirty “within and …