DeM Banter: Well there's a bumper sticker for you...."America The Retirement Home." Not making the tough call and choices...is still making a choice...no? As Rush once said..."If you choose not to decide...you still have made a choice." Tough, tough, tough choices must be made, but isn't that why we send folks to Washington? Thoughts? Washington …
Smart Drones By Bill Keller
DeM Banter: ...and so it goes... New York Times March 17, 2013 Pg. SR7 IF you find the use of remotely piloted warrior drones troubling, imagine that the decision to kill a suspected enemy is not made by an operator in a distant control room, but by the machine itself. Imagine that an aerial robot …
Nato ‘Faces Soviet-Style Failure In Afghanistan’ By Ben Farmer
DeM Banter: there's that annoying history thing again... London Daily Telegraph March 16, 2013 Pg. 24 ....in Kabul NATO troops in Afghanistan are in a similar situation to the failed Soviet invasion and are waging a campaign that is "unwinnable in military terms", according to a Ministry of Defence analysis. Both the Nato campaign and …
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UN denounces US drone use in Pakistan
DeM Banter: probably the biggest single issue with RPAs and it gets very little press in the US...hence we turn to Aljazeera and the UN (I know...I hear ya...the UN? Aljazeera The United States has violated Pakistan's sovereignty and destroyed tribal structures with unmanned aerial drone strikes in its counterterrorism near the Afghan border, a …
Report: Chinese Drone ‘Swarms’ Designed to Attack American Aircraft Carriers By Jason Koebler
DeM Banter: The Chinese are clearly in the hunt with "drone" technology... where are the Russians? The Iranians? nK? Proliferation? Is the US innovative enough to stay ahead in this game...or to regain the lead (if this article is correct)? Interesting times.... View Original China's fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, could be technologically …
With Drone Warfare, America Approaches The Robo-Rubicon By Robert H. Latiff and Patrick J. McCloskey
DeM Banter: This is something we have been pondering here at the MCG for a long time...it is not difficult to see where this line is going. The bigger issue... the "train has left the station," and it is not going backwards. So how do we embrace this change and lead responsibly? The technology is …
Officials Reassess Defense Strategy By Kristina Wong,
DeM Banter: Who makes Strategy? Okay, I know... let it go... but as my good friend Bob... Bob Dylan says... "The times, they are a changing..." Washington Times March 15, 2013 Pg. 8 Military officials are reassessing the national defense strategy in light of spending cuts that will force the Pentagon to reduce its budget …
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Sequestration Side Effects By Joshua Green
DeM Banter: interesting times...and that's all I have to say about that.... Boston Globe March 13, 2013 Pg. 11 Showdown reveals a shift in the Republican Party on defense As anyone who has willed himself to pay attention to the latest budget crisis probably knows, the purpose of the "sequestration" -- the $1.2 trillion in …
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Chinese ‘Hackers’ Is A Misnomer. They’re Spies By John C. Wohlstetter
DeM Banter: staggering...and what is the US postured to do about it? Not sure....any thoughts. Wall Street Journal March 13, 2013 Pg. 15 The U.S. is under cyber attack from a hostile regime. Forceful American digital counterattacks are in order. In a speech on Monday at the Asia Society in New York, National Security Adviser …
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Hey…You…LEADER…FOCUS! DeMarco Banter
We all know folks that pride themselves on how busy they are...but aren't we all busy? In fact at times, it seems our culture breeds and idolizes work-aholics. Honestly, There is no correlation between how busy one is and how productive they are. Busy and productive aren’t the same. The most productive people really seem …
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