Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership

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 …

Doug Macgregor: Fiscal Reality and the American Way of War

Fiscal Reality and the American Way of War What is the strategic meaning of America’s military drawdown? In this article, Macgregor explains the rationale for a reduced footfrint overseas and the results demand for “high lethality/low density forces” in American military power. See Also: Macgregor @ Phi Beta Iota

Robert Steele: Grand Strategy, Global Reality, & Re-Inventing US National Security Centered on Re-Inventing the US Army NEW: BOOK

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-GOARMY These are my personal views that do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Defense or any element thereof. It is my privilege have completed a three monograph series for the U.S. Army’s Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), where I have been an External Researcher with several chapters and three monographs …

Neal Rauhauser: Russian Information Operations The Menace of Unreality – How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money

The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlim Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money covers the Kremlin’s methods and motives as they spread the influence modern Russia, rightly called a mafia state. The concept of “Operations Psychological”, as defined by Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, plays a prominent role …

Chuck Spinney: Drone Implosion as a Metaphor for DoD Collapse — The Plans / Reality Mismatch Redux

The High Cost of the Military Technical Revolution Flush With Cash, Running on Empty One of the never ending claims made by proponents of the military technical revolution is that emerging complex weapons technologies create more combat power per unit of labor — that we are substituting capital for labor and technology-intensive capital goods are …

Chuck Spinney: Cartographic Games Divorced from Reality – Daniel Neep on The Middle Eastern Example

Below is a brilliant essay that shows how cartographic hallucinogenics can capture one’s Orientation and create an incestuously amplifying* decision cycle that disconnects a “policy” maker from real world. * Note to new readers: For an explanation of how “incestuous amplification” operates to disconnect a decision maker from the exigencies of the real world read my essay, Incestuous …