Posted on

Marcus Aurelius: Four Washington Think Tanks Presume to Define Defense

Four Washington think tanks held their own exercise to provide alternate analyses and budget proposals to the ongoing Department of Defense Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), DoD’s Congressionally mandated internal cut drill. Read all about it at Joint Think Tank Event: Alternatives to the QDR and FY15 Defense Budget | CSBA While the four think tanks …

Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: Four Washington Think Tanks Presume to Define Defense”

Posted on

Marcus Aurelius: Five Takeaways from a Decade of War [Defense One] Plus Blistering Alternative View from Phi Beta Iota Editors

Five Takeaways from a Decade of War Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, in a keynote address at the Center for Strategic and International Studies this week, signaled to military commanders that they should assume the across-the-board, automatic spending cuts imposed by sequester over the next decade will remain in place indefinitely. “We do not have …

Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: Five Takeaways from a Decade of War [Defense One] Plus Blistering Alternative View from Phi Beta Iota Editors”

Posted on

Marcus Aurelius: Defense Orders Most Furloughed Players Back to Work

Not sure just what this really means — What does “most” mean? I read the language of the law, which extremely broad and permissive. DoJ and, of course DoD (little difference) attorneys appear to have construed the language VERY, VERY narrowly SECDEF’s memo, link highlighted, follows suit, seeming to focus on employees doing things like …

Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: Defense Orders Most Furloughed Players Back to Work”

Posted on

Berto Jongman: Excerpt from American Coup – Chemical Weapons and the Homeland Defense Pork Scam

Against the unthinkable: The government’s secret chemical weapons defense What would happen if a chemical weapons attack happened here? The government has been making secret plans for years Excerpted from American Coup Existing disaster plans may include provisions for mass fatalities but should be reviewed and tested regularly to determine if these plans are appropriate for …

Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Excerpt from American Coup – Chemical Weapons and the Homeland Defense Pork Scam”

Posted on

Marcus Aurelius: BREAKING – Defense to Protect Hardware Contracts, Savage the People

There is lot of stuff flying around Pentagon these days.  There is memo that underlies article next below but I haven’t seen it yet, trying to get from Sister service.  Irrespective of your opinion of  publication, this might be very good week to buy  current Army Times (12 Aug 2013) because it has some data and …

Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: BREAKING – Defense to Protect Hardware Contracts, Savage the People”

Posted on

Marcus Aurelius: Media Common Sense on Defense — Still Lacking on Substance

Following is stunning, coming as it does from the left-wing newspaper we called “Pravda on the Potomac” during the Cold War.) Two op-eds from mainstream media follow; both discuss need for Legislative and Executive Branches of the USG to get their [sierra] together and serve the national interest. Washington Post, August 4, 2013, Pg. 18 …

Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: Media Common Sense on Defense — Still Lacking on Substance”

Posted on

Marcus Aurelius: Democratic Defense Play-Book — Truman Security Briefing Book Edition 5 — Idiocy Lite

From Politico Morning Defense: FIRST LOOK – THE STRONG-ON-DEFENSE PLAYBOOK: A leading national-security think tank is releasing the latest edition of its annual briefing book, which has become a kind of playbook for strong-on-defense Democrats. The Truman National Security Project, which spent more than $90,000 during the 2012 presidential campaign to help defeat Republican Mitt …

Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: Democratic Defense Play-Book — Truman Security Briefing Book Edition 5 — Idiocy Lite”