The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
One Presidential Debate You Won’t Hear: Why It is Time to Adopt a Sensible Grand Strategy America’s descent into a state of perpetual war ought to suggest it is time to rethink our approach to grand strategy. So, how do we define grand strategy? More to the point of this essay, what considerations make up …
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Worth a full read. Why is Trump holding a mega-rally in Alabama tonight? Here is the Trump political logic: “Alabama is extremely critical,” a close associate of Trump’s told me (actually, we agreed I’d call him “a close associate of Mr. Trump”). “You have Iowa’s caucus on February 1st, New Hampshire on the 9th, and South …
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The National Military Strategy – Dishonest Platitudes CounterPunch, 6 July 2015 The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has released the National Military Strategy. As a propaganda document, presenting weakness as strength and seeking to gain trust in that which should not be trusted, it is stellar. By naming four main enemies (Russia, Iran, …
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China’s New Military Strategy: “Winning Informationized Local Wars” Jamestown Foundation China Brief Volume: 15 Issue: 13 EXTRACT The phrase “winning informationized local wars” has appeared in the pages of the PLA’s newspaper, the Liberation Army Daily, only fifty times. But thirty eight, or 75 percent, of these references have occurred since mid-August 2014. The term …
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The question has been asked: Can we really do this? Below is one answer. A national conversation should yield both many more answers, and public confidence that it can indeed restore integrity to the US electoral process, to all three branches of the federal government, and eventually to all state and local governments — while …
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A New American Grand Strategy by General Jim Mattis Hoover Institution, Thursday, February 26, 2015 Questions asked and answered: What are the key threats to our vital interests? Is our intelligence community fit for its expanding purpose? How do we urgently halt the damage caused by sequestration? More broadly, is the U.S. military being developed …
