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Converging run-up to the election
The market continues to hem and haw leading up to the election. Following that the sequestration decision has enormous implications for next directions in the US mkt. There’s a 1.5T potential swing based on who wins and how sequestration pans out.
In the worst case (in my view) Romney wins, and tries to spend an addition 1T on defense over the next 10 years, AND sequestration is lifted preventing an additional 500B from being auto-cut from defense. That would be 1.5 large down the drain, and would perpetuate the aggressive overseas interventionist policies of the last decade. Meanwhile we cant get funding for high school sports teams and free community college and skills training
Future Force in the news
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A nice write-up in the Army Times on the Future Force game I designed for the Command & General Staff College. It was cool to see my family commenting in the discussion session.
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- White House unveils tougher Iran oil curbs – Financial Times (ft.com)
- Divided Opposition: Key to Syrian Power – TIME (time.com)
- U.S. brigadier general dies in Afghanistan (cnn.com)
- Top U.S. officer dies in Afghanistan (edition.cnn.com)
- CGSC Foundation Receives $6.1 Million Pledge From H. Ross Perot (prweb.com)
- Investigation after Brigadier General Terence Hildner becomes highest-ranking officer to die in Afghanistan so far (dailymail.co.uk)
- CGSC Foundation’s ‘Col. Arthur D. Simons Center’ Opens at Fort Leavenworth (prweb.com)
- CGSC Foundation Continues Partnership with Flint Hills Resources (prweb.com)
- CGSC Foundation Presents Ross Perot with 2010 Distinguished Leadership Award (prweb.com)
- Military base closings are possible in central Pennsylvania (pennlive.com)
- Military’s Lock-Step Promotion System (outsidethebeltway.com)
- Central Pennsylvania could be gearing up to fight rounds of military closures (pennlive.com)
Patton in the California desert, and the best coffee I ever tasted
Image by Tumbleweed:-) via Flickr
i just love that desert; i miss sitting in the dirt and making a little stove for coffee and going to hang out with the mechanics. thats the best coffee I ever tasted
I like how simple Patton’s HQ and his entourage are. A dirt soldier at heart who understand war
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“Playing” at being Presidential vs actually “Presiding”
Is this just a low cost way to appear Presidential and decisive? or part of the narrative of socialist/fascist power-grab using the Alinsky model?
If Obama really wanted to look Presidential he would take the NYT defense budget
Image by SS&SS via Flickr
cutting quiz and start to make a difference in our finances by downsizing the military
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MG Fuller: over/under was 1
I won the office pool on when MG Fuller would lose his job. The over under was 1 day. I picked under. He knew precisely what the consequences would be. Such are the consequences of telling the unvarnished truth in public
Knee-jerk connected to the …nuclear football
What an artful turn of phrase, and one that I think captures the Perry phenomenon pretty well.
RICK PERRY has never spent any serious time outside of Texas, except for a five-year stint in the military. Nobody sent him off to boarding school to expand his horizons. He grew up in Paint Creek, where he graduated third in a high school class of 13. He went to the most deeply Texas of all the state’s major institutions of higher learning. He was a terrible student, but won the prized post of yell leader, the most deeply Texas of all possible Aggie achievements.
Reflections on Afghanistan from Michael Yon
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Weekend report review May 07, 2011 links on YouTube
Youtube link discussing the weekend reports
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gBXLyJxCow
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May 04, 2011: pre mkt notes: silver off sharply overseas
preparing to manage our silver short trade in ZSL, which looks favorable right now with spot silver down sharply in the futures after a night of weakness.
we are already pushing the historical boundaries for corrections over a 5 and 10 day period so at this extreme condition further sharp moves are expected
Knee-jerk meets policy
this is the very definition of a knee-jerk reaction. What does our Libyan policy havein common with a knee-jerk?
- it’s autonomic: without conscious thought or reasoning
- it’s an uncontrolled spasm
- it could trigger an uncontrolled, uncontrollable series of equally uncomcious responses
- it’s unconnected to a strategy, a plan, a vision of the future
- it’s a response to outside unplanned stimuli
- it’s entirely predictable
- it will happen again in the same way if there is no change to the central nervous system
