Oct 20, 2012

Beautiful Blowback and Bumbling Benghazi

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Notice how the Malala Yousafzai narrative just keeps giving and giving. Splendid blowback. And on Benghazi, funny the news this morning th...
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Oct 2, 2012

Greasing Our Troops From Within - Not A Matter of Broken Etiquette

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Just saw that NightWatch is making same point we made a while ago .   That the "just disaffected recruits" tweak of the ...
Sep 6, 2012

Deconflicting the Afgh IO Matrix - Finally

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Noticed something the other morning . Yes, they definitely deconflicted the IO matrix. Nice. No more mention of "uniforms" or ...
Aug 22, 2012

IO Sophistry -- 'Infiltrator' Redefined

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Another volley in the BS IO. A NATO study has found that nearly 90 percent of such killings stem from personal disputes or outrage rathe...
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AnglaVakt In Afghanistan

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Another initiative, now a priority, is a program named “Guardian Angel.” Also, notice that they have cleverly modified the "black ...
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May 28, 2012

Rolling Thunder

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Prez went to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial this AM to make a speech.  Third CINC (after Reagan and Clinton) to do so. I almost decided to fo...
Apr 28, 2012

Inside UBL Raid - A Trifecta w/ Peter Bergen Played for Laughs?

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Just saw this,  Pakistan's spy agency seeks some credit for bin Laden's death . Also this,  ‘Manhunt’ details U.S. mission to fi...
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Mar 22, 2012

Post-Traumatic Growth - The Postwar Attitude Adjustment

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A long PTSD piece for Sunday's NYT Magazine. Post-Traumatic Stress’s Surprisingly Positive Flip Side
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Deconstructing & Construing/Rambling -- Inside the Works

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Dog and pony show time. Also, this.  Nice.    Castro knew of JFK assassination plan, book says Since Oswald was known to the Cuban exile...
Mar 13, 2012

Rwedux Rwednesday -- Losing Rwafghanistan

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Posted by SMC 5yrs ago: Being Modest, Being Newsweek Sep,2006 The United States edition of the October 2, 2006 issue of Newsweek feat...
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Mar 2, 2012

Clarity At Last - Mil Option On Iran a Bluff

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Peres Says U.S. Must Put All Iran Options on Table Ask and ye shall receive Obama Says Military Option on Iran Not a ‘Bluff’ (Means t...
Feb 27, 2012

Infiltration in Afghanistan Issue (Early Birds Get To Be Depressed First)

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It is said that there is no security on the net - even among "security" firms (not that Stratfor was ever worth sierra - or was ...
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Feb 14, 2012

LTC. Davis' (U) Report Published in RS

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While we were otherwise distracted during our annual SMC-Con at Trump's swanky SoHo tower, the entire unclassified version of LTC Davis...
Feb 6, 2012

In Afghan War, Officer Becomes a Whistle-Blower

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In Afghan War, Officer Becomes a Whistle-Blower “No one expects our leaders to always have a successful plan,” he says in the article. “B...
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Dec 11, 2011

High-stakes Hilarity (the ongoing progression of)

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NYT says PAK Taliban in talks with gov. WaPo says PAK Taliban not in talks with gov. While we are dealing with the region, Crocker artic...
Dec 8, 2011

#Dude -- Amusing US Policy T'wards PAK et al

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Needless to say, dude 's regurgitating conventional wisdom.  To dude's credit, dude does touch on the intel cooperation angle. B...
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Nov 27, 2011

Where's the River of Snot?

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A senior US law enforcement official asked me if I noticed anything strange about the video footage of the UC Davis incident. I told him ...
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Nov 15, 2011

Blast From the Past

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Remember the mention of Cicely Angleton's passing? Now we have the obit of another member of the same exclusive circle. (The deceased ...