Questions of command and control are circulating. The former US Director of National Intelligence goes on record to worry about the President’s access to nuclear codes. Erratic decisions, speeches, and behavior of the US Commander in Chief are continuing to produce concern as the public and international community react
Month: August 2017
Shifting National Security Terrain
Steve Bannon out as US presidential adviser. The Bannon agenda returns to Breitbart news with a Bannon message that he intends to ‘go to war‘. The ‘McMaster era’ begins as the national security adviser formerly at odds with Bannon reports to an unpredictable president. Will more ‘globalist’ extension, troops and conflicts across hemispheres result
Turning Point in Charlottesville
The future is overcast and the horizon foggy. The aftermath of the riot in Charlottesville is just beginning to be wrought. The consequences of words and policies, action and non-action will define the American experiment going forward. The American president wavers, then shocks with his remarks
Year-Over-Year US Defense Spending … Unsustainable
Fact: Decades of war across the globe produce trillions of dollars of debt and historic spending levels … a $696.5 billion defense bill passes … 18.7% year-over-year growth … though the Pentagon is the only federal department unable to conduct and pass a financial audit … this is unsustainable