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DeM Banter: similar thoughts on the blog at the link below...it's all about Blood and Treasure. Wall Street Journal August 5, 2013 Pg. 12 Military "entitlements" aren't what's hurting military readiness; military pay and benefits are hardly generous. Regarding Mackenzie Eaglen and Michael O'Hanlon's "Military Entitlements Are Killing Readiness" (op-ed, July 26): We veterans, who …
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DeM Banter: Interesting we say..."The deaths of Osama bin Laden and other top al Qaeda officials in Pakistan has fueled U.S. confidence that al Qaeda's core leadership can't mount attacks on the U.S. and that U.S. drone strikes there could be phased out over time. " I wonder what model of leadership we are using …
DeM Banter: Haven't we seen this show before...I believe it was an early to mid-1990s sit-com. We would all have a specialized regions--that did not go so well when one region demanded all our attention. It does look darn nice on paper though. Further, recruiting and retention is not an issue now that the economy …
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DeM Banter: So is it better to be engaged early? Or later? To watch...or engage? Right now...there are no good options... so did we miss our opportunity or was there never an opportunity. Interesting times.... Wall Street Journal July 30, 2013 Pg. 4 Capital Journal The Middle East has a tendency to eat up American …
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DeM Banter: Well said... I just wish I knew who said it. Choices, planning... strategy...not reaction. Of course.. that requires leadership...not sure who is leading anymore... Defense News July 29, 2013 Pg. 20 The central feature of the Pentagon's Strategic Choices and Management Review is to show, with brutal clarity, exactly what capabilities the United …
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<a href="https://m100group.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/20130729-062903.jpg">DeM Banter: THE best data visualisations are the products of a desperate, raw urgency to inform. That power is packed in the punch of Pitch Interactive, an interactive design firm in Berkeley, California. On March 25th it released a sophisticated visualisation of American drone attacks, entitled "Out of sight, out of mind." I came …
DeM Banter:  So the more things change... This was something we spent an agonizingly long time working in the 2008-10 timeframe. We drafted a white paper on the subject...There were some very good thoughts on how to synergize the inter-agency, but the actual appetite to place bodies against the requirement just really was not there. …
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DeM Banter: Still processing this one... about 5 years ago, I recall talking with Sundie and saying that the military was soon to become the nouveau riche--not that we are mind you...but the sights were beginning to be pointed at the active duty military and their benefits as the war in Iraq was winding down. …
DeM Banter:  "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." - Aldous Huxley Great points from Gen McMaster in regards to the nature of war...with the budget issues we face--the call is loud to lean heavily on technology...RPAs, Drones, dare I say robots (see Atlas …
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DeM Banter: more "straight talk" required before we do anything...oh, and a plan would be cool as well. Politico.com July 20, 2013 ASPEN, Colo.—Recently retired CENTCOM commander James Mattis warned Saturday that a limited U.S. intervention in Syria will be costly and ineffective, while he also suggested that the U.S. public is not invested enough …
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