The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
For the record. Bloomberg Businessweek, February 18, 2013, Pg. 29 Charlie Rose Talks To Dick Cheney ‘The damage we’re doing to the Defense Department is enormous’ By Charlie Rose Someone said to me that, since you received your heart transplant last year, you’re a new man. That you’re mellow, less strident. Is this true? My …
The Joint Chiefs of Staff testified to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees this week arguing that unless their budgets are augmented with still more money they will hollow out the armed forces. Most in the press and Congress didn’t read their assertions that way, but two near simultaneous reports that provide some meaningful …
Mali: Special comment. Western news reporters have discovered in Timbuktu confidential guidance documents that the fleeing jihadists failed to destroy. On the 13th The Telegraph reported that one of its reporters had discovered some confidential documents in the building used by the jihadists in Timbuktu as their command post. One was an account of a …
How to Start a Battalion (in Five Easy Lessons) Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports from Syria London Review of Books, Vol. 35 No. 4 · 21 February 2013 EXTRACT: ‘We reached a point in the fighting, in spring 2012, when we needed proper support. We needed heavy machine guns, real weapons. Money was never an issue: how …
Panetta’s Phony Doomsday Scenario Two Questions for the Next Secretary of Defense by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY CounterPunch, 11 February 2013 EXTRACT Figure 1 places Mr. Panetta’s claim into the context of past defense budgets. I have aggregated these budgets into the four year totals corresponding to each presidential term since Harry Truman’s second term began …
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PDF 21 pages: 2013 Army Strategic Planning Guidance Phi Beta Iota: All buzz words, no specifics. We are reminded that much of this is precisely what the US Marine Corps tried to tell the Secretary of Defense in 1992. The Services — and OSD — are once again 20 years behind the planning and …
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An excellently argued appeal to sanity. Time to Face the Truth About Iran by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett Agence Global, 07 Feb 2013 Fifty years ago, during the Cuban missile crisis, the United States faced what is frequently described as the defining challenge of the Cold War. Today, some argue that America is …
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