The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
SECDEF speaks; see article below. Key points: First SOF Truth, equally applicable to every single element of the Joint Force, has been forgotten: HUMANS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN HARDWARE. First SOF Truth, repeat after me, Mr. Secretary: HUMANS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN HARDWARE. Troops and families — carriers of the rifles and the rucksacks and …
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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 …
Greater Iran’s Greatest Problem The current political boundaries of the Islamic Republic are a fraction of what the Persian empire was at it’s peak. This map of Scythia & Parthia shows what have been fairly stable boundaries for Iranian culture – from the Tigris river in the west to the Indus in the east. Geographically this …
Overheard at dinner in Afghanistan: Religion is the space between the dots, science the dots, and philosophy the mind-set that blends the two. Education, intelligence (decision-support) and research are the sources and methods for achieving integral consciousness — godliness in spirt, integrity in fact, and heaven on earth in community. Religions can be evaluated in …
As Congress bumbles on with 2014 budget limits and appropriations, the narrative of American armed forces as “the best in the world” continues as the de rigueur and foppish test of patriotism at House Armed Services Committee hearings. Being what passes for “pro defense” requires blindness, and lots of money, in the current political system …
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Yet more disgusting news about what is happening to the American food system. I just can’t say strongly enough: You must give serious consideration to the food you eat. Your health, and your life, and the health and lives of your family depend on your choices. Ractopamine: The Meat Additive on Your Plate That’s Banned …
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Boyd’s Theorem (pounded with unrelenting ferocity into the heads of friends for over 30 years): “People say the Pentagon does not have a strategy They are wrong. The Pentagon does have a strategy; it is: Don’t interrupt the money flow, add to it.” — Col. John R. Boyd (U.S. Air Force, ret.)* Fighter …
