The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Nearly two-thirds of US Navy’s strike fighters can’t fly …nearly two-thirds of the fleet’s strike fighters can’t fly – grounded because they’re either undergoing maintenance or simply waiting for parts or their turn the aviation depot backlog. Long comment below the fold.
Trump and the Return of Private Military Contractors The PMSC sector is the U.S. military’s American Express card; it dare not deploy without it. Or, to use a more morbid pop culture reference, consider the first Alien movie, when they try to remove the facehugger from a crewman’s face, only to realize that trying to …
Principles for an Age of Acceleration MIT Media Lab is a creative nerve center where great ideas like One Laptop per Child, LEGO Mindstorms, and Scratch programming language have emerged. Its director, Joi Ito, has done a lot of thinking about how prevailing systems of thought will not be the ones to see us through …
Reality bats last — the US military has not been designed in the context of a Grand Strategy, nor has it been designed with any attention at all to Global Reality. The US military is too slow, too heavy, too expensive, too complex, and spread too thin to be effective — it cannot deter, defend, …
David Cortright, Rachel Fairhurst, Kristen Wall (eds.) Academic-Legal Perspective on the US Drone Assassination Program, November 23, 2016 This is one of three books on drone assassination that I am reviewing, the other two are Sudden Justice: America’s Secret Drone Wars (Terrorism and Global Justice) and We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination …
Reality bats last — the US military has not been designed in the context of a Grand Strategy, nor has it been designed with any attention at all to Global Reality. The US military is too slow, too heavy, too expensive, too complex, and spread too thin to be effective — it cannot deter, defend, …
Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part III in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Robert David Steele This is the author’s preliminary draft of the third of three monographs focused on …
