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2009/08/212009/09/06

Journal: Afghanistan = Viet-Nam, National Security Council Remains “Like a Moron”

Saigon 2009 Afghanistan is today’s Vietnam. No question mark needed. BY THOMAS H. JOHNSON, M. CHRIS MASON AUGUST 20, 2009 For those who say that comparing the current war in Afghanistan to the Vietnam War is taking things too far, here’s a reality check: It’s not taking things far enough. From the origins of these …

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2009/08/212009/08/21

Journal: Liberty, Propaganda, and We the People

Ron Paul “gets” the idea of basic liberty. After all, liberty is at the core of what our country was founded upon. It is neither Republican nor Democrat; however, after years of conditioning by the main stream media, the public school system, peers and a number of other “group think” mechanisms out there, our ideas …

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2009/08/172009/08/18

AFRICOM Week in Review Ending 17 August 2009

Hot Topics AA: Should the AU outsource security operations? 08/14/09 BI: Burundi urged to punish perpetrators of human rights violations … 08/14/09 BW: ‘Botswana economy is going down the drain’ 08/13/09 CD: DR Congo’s Bemba released before war crimes trial 08/14/09 ET: Ethiopia’s resilient prime minister The two sides of Meles Zenawi 08/13/09 GH: Ghana’s …

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2009/08/162009/08/22

Journal: Chuck Spinney Flags “More Troops = More Targets”

Inside the Taliban: ‘The more troops they send, the more targets we have’ Ghaith Abdul-Ahad,Saturday 15 August 2009 Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an Iraqi journalist who works as a special correspondent for the Guardian. Phi Beta Iota Selected One-Liners followed by link to McNamara in Fog of War Includes MAJOR finding on drone need for infrared …

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2009/08/112009/08/11

Worth a Look: PBI Comments on DNI Strategy & Vision

Phi Beta Iota has begun a review of all publicly-available documents and directives pertaining to the hybrid discipline of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). Click on the cover to access both the full document online and the Phi Beta Iota comment. OSINT is a hybrid discipline, unique in that it is both a complete discipline in …

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2009/08/112009/08/26

Journal: Google digital evil or digital child?

To begin on a positive note: Google has both computational mathematics that are out of this world, an order of magnitude better than anything IBM or the other usual suspects can muster, and it has cracked the cloud storage and heat and throughput issues in a way that is now an almost insurmountable barrier to …

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2009/08/102009/08/10

Journal: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s Preemptive Damage Control [Manipulation of Anticipated Negative Information]

By Robert Haddick August 2009 After appointing Gen. Stanley McChrystal the new commander in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates gave him two months to write an analysis of the situation there in yet another review of U.S. strategy. But after rumors leaked out that McChrystal would ask for another increase in U.S. troops, it appears …

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