While we generally think of “conservatives” as being strong supporters of the American military; there is an older tradition in which conservatives argued for less foreign entanglements and a small military. Mr. Robert Robb over at the Arizona Republic makes a strong argument for a return to an older and more traditional National Defense Strategy. The heart [...]
Insight into the Making of Sausage
From 8 January Washington Post; how sausage also known as strategy is made in Washington.
New National Strategy and Budget Cuts
There was an interesting interactive exercise over at the New York Times this week, in which individuals were all an opportunity to make decisions on how to reduce Defense spending. A group of us, all ground pounders, were able to very quickly get to about 750 Billion and our assessment with little negative impact on [...]
National Guard Major Convicted of Accepting Bribes
Not the first one, but I am coming to believe any office who can’t uphold his oath should be strung up by his balls.
Stray Voltage
I am really going to piss some people off with my comments today; so be it! It appears that Congress has knuckled under to the most ruthless lobbying organization in our nation, the National Guard Association of the United States (NGAUS) and are going to approve a provision that the Chief of the National Guard [...]
United States Air Force; Time for it to Go Away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have never hid my distaste for the United States Air (&**^&**(ing) Force, in fact I have been pretty hard on them a number of times. Back in June of 2009 in a blog at this site entitled “Who is at War and Who is Not”. The gist of that article that an Air Show [...]
Interesting Reads
There are several posts over at Battleland’s that I recommend that you read; they are on a variety of subjects, and are worthy to be read, think about and discuss. First article, on the possibly of a return to a draft. Highly unlikely. However, given the rising personnel cost, would a return to the draft [...]
Warfare Inside the Pentagon
Good article over at the Battleland Blog on the Pentagon Budget Wars.
Andrew Bacevich on Military Retirement
Andrew Bacevich comes out against the Defense Business Board reform of military retirement in Sunday 21 August 2011 Washington-Post. Dr. Bacevich (COL, USA-RET) make a persuasive argument. I can’t argue with his analysis. The great strength of his argument is his tying military service to a profession and not a vocation; a choice to serve [...]
Military Retirement Reforms?
Recently a briefing on reforming the U S Military retirement system by the Defense Business Board is a step in the right direction. While I am a beneficiary of the current retirement system, it has been clear for over twenty years that it was unsustainable. The current military retirement system was developed in a period [...]
