Showing posts with label DOD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DOD. Show all posts
Friday, November 20, 2020

Drones and the Military

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 The Armenia-Azerbaijan hostilities have involved extensive and effective use of drones by the Azerbaijanis which caused the Post to see the...
Friday, March 08, 2019

Pork in DOD? Say It Ain't So

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I think this story about how Congress highly regards certain construction projects in DOD bears out my warning to Trump back in February.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

DOD and the Wall?

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Today's story is that President Trump wants the military to pay for his wall on the Mexican border.  He's being mocked for it, and...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Which Branch Will Shoot Down Drones?

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Politico has a piece on a US Army analysis of Russian military capabilities as demonstrated in Ukraine.  One paragraph: Karber says the l...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

VA, DOD, and Me

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Though I'm a veteran, I've stayed away from the VA, not much there for me. But I've watched with interest through the years, p...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Doesn't Anyone Know How to [Do Big Systems]?

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I'm probably misremembering, but I believe Casey Stengel, when he was manager of the expansion NY Mets, asked something like: "does...
Friday, August 17, 2012

DOD: We've Got a Problem Here

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“Ship is inherently directionally unstable,” one Navy document said. That's from a Project on Government Oversight post on the Navy...
Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Bureaucrat Started as GS-5?

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The article "Master of Bureaucracy" doesn't say, but it's likely Bob Gates started as either as GS-5 or 7.  Government Ex...
Friday, March 09, 2012

Our Well Housed DOD

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There was a piece in today's Post with DOD officials asking for a new set of BRAC's (base closing commissions).  One factoid: DOD ha...
Friday, May 07, 2010

Brooks and Ricks on the US Army

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David Brooks is laudatory today.  He believes the Army has been converted to a counterinsurgency doctrine through the leadership of Gen. Pet...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Bureaucracy Is Always Fascinating--US Army

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I do find bureaucracy endlessly fascinating, not that it's a wide spread taste. FDR famously mocked government bureaucracies, ending wit...