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DeM Banter: Important piece here...need to ponder for a couple of days... great question at the end..."And if the future of power lies in disruption and interference, not management and consolidation, can we expect to ever know stability again..." Time to think different... things have shifted...we are just now beginning to comprehend and maybe understand. …
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DeM Banter: so it would appear...not much has changed since leaving "The Building" in 2010 (been out of this game for a good while, so I really don't know). This was our "portfolio" in the J5...and trying to get the interagency to work, and it seems it definitely can...but it needs a system that will …
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DeM Banter: Options? Sequester Iran? Not sure the world is getting any safer... Wall Street Journal March 2, 2013 Pg. 13 The Weekend Interview Veteran weapons inspector Olli Heinonen on how the U.N.'s 'Stockholm Syndrome' has aided Tehran's drive for the bomb--and why an unsettling secret may be lurking in the Iranian desert. Cambridge, Mass.--It …
DeM Banter: always good to check international news sources (although their spelling is a tad off). Interesting times call for interesting solutions...status quo stopped working several years ago... Financial Times March 1, 2013 Pg. 8 Chuck Hagel's biggest problem will be Congress It is hardly the ideal moment to become US defence secretary. At midnight …
DeM Banter: Another side of an eight sided story? Truth or more spin? Interesting points...more research required on my part. Reuters.com February 28, 2013 The sequestration drama in Washington is less severe and intractable than you have heard. A partial solution: Block the across-the-board cut of $42.5 billion in military funds this year — the …
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DeM Banter: In this case... Ax is a good thing...Col (ret) Allard has some great points here...come on man, he is quoting JFC Fuller... of course it is good. I am not sure there is anything really new here, seems like we have heard these things talked about for years, but imagine if someone actually …
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DeM Banter: Something we have been asking here at The Mastermind Century Group for a good while now. What do you want the military to do? Answer that question... and remain true to that answer...and you will have your budget. "The audience is listening..." Washington Times February 26, 2013 Pg. B1 Sending the unprepared is …
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DeM Banter: Welcome to the Information Age... how we doing with adapting? New York Times February 25, 2013 Pg. 1 News Analysis WASHINGTON — When the Obama administration circulated to the nation’s Internet providers last week a lengthy confidential list of computer addresses linked to a hacking group that has stolen terabytes of data from …
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DeM Banter: Welcome to the Information Age... how we doing with adapting? New York Times February 25, 2013 Pg. 1 News Analysis WASHINGTON — When the Obama administration circulated to the nation’s Internet providers last week a lengthy confidential list of computer addresses linked to a hacking group that has stolen terabytes of data from …
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DeM Banter: we do live in interesting times...repeat of the 1970s, 1990s, now 2010s...see a trend? This will be a challenge to work through, we do need cuts ...all over the federal government, and now is a time to think different in regards to how we do business...further we need a deeper dialog on the …
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