The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Two excellent and important articles follow. They address the corrupt nature of America’s general officer corps, and they are examples of journalism and think-tank work at their best. “Corrupt officer corps?” An overstatement? You be the judge. The first article is yet another in USA Today‘s Tom Vandenbrook’s long and continuing series about DOD’s “mentor” program. It …
Released Wednesday by the sponsoring Watson Institute of Brown University, a new multi-author study of the costs of the post-9/11 wars is available. Most prominently, the study finds the appropriations thus far to have been between $2.3 and 2.7 trillion; with an additional $884 to $1,334 billion to already have been incurred for future costs …
Continue reading “Cost of War: Obama and Dr. Gates Both Lie….”
What Gates Didn’t Do Robert Gates has been called the best secretary of defense in recent memory. On the other hand, he has a reputation with some as a slick career bureaucrat with a knack for avoiding blame but pocketing credit. Both are true. “Best in recent memory?” It would have been hard for Gates …
For months I have been reading in the press about Robert Gates “cancelling more than 30 [defense hardware] programs.” A May 24 Bloomberg article by Viole Gienger (“Gates Says Military Cuts May Protect F-35, Submarines”) came up quick on a Google search. Other articles credit Gates with “saving more than $300 billion” with these – …
Continue reading “Bob Gates: Flat Out Liar or Just Feeble? + RECAP”
The Gates Farewell Warning America can be a superpower or a welfare state, but not both. Phi Beta Iota Sidenote: BOTH of the above “choices” are corruption incarnate. The correct choice was articulated by Thomas Jefferson: “A Nation’s best defense is an educated citizenry.” EXTRACT: In a series of farewell speeches, Mr. Gates has warned …
Robert Gates: Pitchman for a Declining Empire By Werther* Robert M. Gates is one of those people the Beltway Consensus refers to as a “serious adult”: not overtly partisan, measured in his pronouncements, possessed of actual knowledge about the job he has been charged to do. The adulation he has received is certainly understandable if …
Continue reading “Robert Gates: Spendthrift Ace of Double-Speak”
David Isenberg Author, Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq Posted: October 7, 2010 12:24 PM A Hundred Billion Dollars Up in Smoke It is a pity that last week’s Senate Armed Services committee hearing on “Department of Defense Efficiencies Initiatives” did not get more coverage, as there were some startling assertions made. Consider what …
