more uniforms, please
Fellow national security-issue blogger William Arkin is troubled: The White House announcement last week that it was nominating Dell L. Dailey of South Dakota to be the State Department Coordinator for...
View Articlewar: easy when you always win
From Inside the Army (subscription required): The top civilian and uniformed leaders of the Army told a House committee last week that recent war games have proved the effectiveness of the Future...
View Articlerifles: pointy-end woes
A long but worthwhile article about the state of our small arms and those responsible for putting them into actual arms (none of whom are likely to have to fire a shot in anger the rest of their...
View Articlemission first, people always
Not going to repeat the now well-worn story of Walter Reed-related issues, merely wanted to take a minute to point out a trend and offer up a lesson. There was a time when, while serving on active...
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best “hollow army” discussion ever
. . . over at the Worldwide Standard. Well, that’s just my opinion.
View Articleguiding the pointy end
An update on The Surge that is right up our alley: What tactics are working? "We got down at the people level and are staying," [Gen Petraeus] said flatly. "Once the people know we are going to be...
View Articlei knew him when
Imagine merging 11 companies’ IT departments, creating a standard communications platform that can withstand battlefield conditions, and launching an SOA effort all at the same time. And having it in...
View ArticleHow is this News?
Via the Mail (UK) Online: Britain has spent more than £100 million in the past year on consultants to combat cyber espionage and the growing use of the internet by terrorists. Now, MPs are...
View ArticleNuts!
Would be cyber-sages, in particular cold-warriors and amateur WWII historians love to butcher military metaphors in an attempt to make their point about the issue of the day. Digital “Pearl Harbor” and...
View ArticleLet’s Go Bolling
I’m not sure why so many people are against, or trying to find fault, with DIA’s move to hire and deploy a metric-***-ton of new HUMINT collectors. Lord knows I can pick plenty of nits with my old...
View ArticlePeaceful . . . Riiiight
The horror, the horror: An antiterrorist database used by the Defense Department in an effort to prevent attacks against military installations included intelligence tips about antiwar planning...
View ArticleReality Check
The United States Military Academy at West Point yesterday confirmed that Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan recently travelled to California to meet producers of the show, broadcast on the Fox...
View Article“issues with reality”
That’s how a colleague who helped me shepherd out a problem employee described said employee to HR. After the last-last-last-chance interview between management, the employee and HR took place, the HR...
View ArticleCyber Stars
/* Warning: Extensive over-use of the word “cyber” ahead. */ The other day my old friend and colleague Bob Gourley Tweeted: Random thought: There are 24 four-star flag officers in the U.S. military....
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