The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Seven actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and none improved in September 2010, according to the latest issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin CrisisWatch, released today. Guinea saw increased political and ethnic divisions, exacerbated by controversies related to the presidential elections. Two days of violent clashes in the capital between …
The Next Generation of Small Unit Warfare [NOTES] A Lunch Discussion with Major General (ret.) Robert H. Scales, PhD Monday, September 27, 2010, 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm The Brookings Institution, Stein Room, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC The 21st Century American military it has found itself fighting two extended land wars, neither against …
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PENTAGON DELAYS PUBLICATION OF NEW BOOK The Department of Defense says that a forthcoming book about the war in Afghanistan contains classified information, and that it should not be put on the market in its current form. Instead, the Pentagon is considering whether to purchase and destroy the entire first printing of the book, “Operation …
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This yields three adequate results, but the human in the loop can do better. Step One: Acknowledge and embrace the eight tribes of intelligence as stakeholders. Create, as Sweden did, a Cooperation Committee (the Swedes get annoyedwhen you call it a Coordination Committee). Step Two: Use the military, and particularly the National Guard or law …
China-Taiwan: For the record. Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration (CGA) will conduct a maritime rescue drill the week of 13 September with China’s Maritime Search and Rescue Center, Taiwanese Central News Agency reported 10 September. The drill will be held in waters off southeastern China, between Taiwan’s Kinmen Island and Xiamen, China. Taiwan’s CGA will send …
China-Iran: China’s Railways Minister Liu Zhijun will visit Tehran on 12 September to sign a contract between Iran and a Chinese company to build a $2 billion rail link to Iran, according to Iranian Transport Minister Hamid Behbahani. Transport ministers from Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Iran are expected to gather in Dushanbe in October to firm …
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Two articles, one each from Wash Post and NYT follow. Both focus on finance as it relates to national security. IMHO, both are probably more true than not. Also IMHO, the two parties principally responsible are Donald Rumsfeld and L. Paul Bremer. Had those two, particularly Rumsfeld, not filled the Coalition Provisional Authority with ideologues, …
