Climate study confirms: global warming is real

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44996377/ns/us_news-christian_science_monitor/ A new climate study shows that since the mid-1950s, global average temperatures over land have risen by 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.6 ...

Victory lap

Not so fast. It didn’t happen on your watch – not the start and not the finish: “The end” of dumping our future into a hole that swallows precious lives and future generations. Stop the war. " “Gates,...

The Mouths that Roared

The line in the story is “the month that roared.” But, I feel somehow that Obama roared this month and so did Hillary. They acted forcefully in response to Qaddafi and they have been aggressive on the...

Libya instance of foreign policy on the fly

McCain is pushing a no-fly zone. Gates says hold on there. Obama says, let’s sort it out. The trouble with this picture is the absence of a clear U. S. Foreign Policy that defines if, when, and how the U. S....

What doesn’t Military get about Executive in Charge?

The Commander in Chief is in charge of the military. A civilian Secretary of Defense manages the Military. The Commander in Chief defines the outcome and the Military’s job is to produce the means. The...

“Cognitively challenged generals"

“War consists largely of the endless tinkering with PowerPoint slides to conform with the idiosyncrasies of cognitively challenged generals in order to spoon-feed them information.” This is a story in...

Whack: Defense cuts inevitable in face of collapsed economy

Whacking the defense budget is essential to get the size of government in line with the GDP and to control the deficit. This can be accomplished without jeopardizing National Security. In fact, there is much...

Axe is falling on Defense spending

I would say that the Joint Forces Command is a redundant activity as its mission is what the Office of Secretary of Defense is supposed to accomplish. You don’t need an extra layer of oversight to accomplish...

Balancing act – Gates and Clinton, Defense and State in S. Korea

This is a significant show of unity and force to have two senior cabinet officials in S. Korea at the same time. If you have never visited South Korea, it is vibrant. The people are hard working and hard...

On the way out, don’t pile up civilians

When you know that the end is near, the only hope that you have of turning Afghanistan into a positive direction is to win the hearts and minds of civilians. We’re even trying to turn the hearts and minds of the...

Cooperation not optional: State and Defense

US State and Defense departments operate under one master integrator, and that is President Obama. General Petraeus is the man for all wars, a man ’o war who seeks a peaceful outcome. We need this kind of...

War by committee—remember Vietnam?

Vietnam was a fiasco and ended in disaster because the executive branch and congress were at odds and the military was given impossible direction and conflicting support. In the case of Afghanistan, America’s...

Gates hints at U.S.-India war against Pakistan, al Qaeda

The brazen attack on Kabul on Monday with the earlier atttack on December 30 at the CIA Chapman forward operating base at Khost has left the U.S. weighing its options what to do with the so-called bastard child of...

Clueless

We have become so secretive in the spy game that we have discovered that we know nothing. Osama is in the general area of Pakistan, or as some have suggested, he might be hiding on a ranch in Texas for all that...

Obama's Timeline No Guarantee of Afghanistan Withdrawal

Since President Obama's speech on Tuesday evening at West Point, there has been a lot of speculation and confusion as to the Administrations interpretation of the announced withdrawal strategy.  President...
 

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