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After 9/11 our military found that the IC was useless as a source of info during military ops in c.f. Iraq. So they ramped up their own program, with GEN Flynn taking the lead and facing the fury of the Beltway. Thiel's Palantir helped them enormously, again working around a massively costly, late, and ponderous Army info system that embedded top down control of analyses.
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....with GEN Flynn taking the lead and facing the fury of the Beltway.
Yes, they hated Flynn and thouht not much better of Alexander and Zippy. Distributed Common Ground System Army (DCGS-A) was a costly contractor dependent abortion.
I'll stop short of calling Palantir an analytical penicillin, but the young troops certainly thought highly of it, and where is the proprietary POS DCGS-A today? Spit.
[JustTheNews] For the first time since 2017, the Coast Guard met its recruiting goals for enlisted active duty, the Reserve, and Non-Academy officer program accessions
The military services recruited 225,000 people in fiscal year 2024 – 25,000 more recruits than last year, said Katie Helland, the Pentagon's director of military accession policy.
She pointed directly to the challenges military components will face in the coming years as they set higher recruitment goals.
"We need to remain cautiously optimistic about the future recruiting operations as we continue to recruit in a market that has low youth propensity to serve, limited familiarity with military opportunities, a competitive labor market and a declining eligibility among young adults," Helland said.
Helland noted a growing divide between civilians and the military.
"Data indicate that many of today's youth are not interested in military service and have many misperceptions about what life is like as a service member," she said.
In fact, most young people never consider signing up.
"For the first time since this metric has been tracked, the majority of youth have never even considered military service as an option," Helland said. "That is it's not even on the radar. This divide has been brought about by a confluence of many factors, including the shrinking military footprint and declining veteran presence across society."
One challenge is fewer ties to a family member who served. In 1990, 40% of young adults had a parent who served. That's down to 15%.
No mention of DEI and other woke nonsense prioritized by the current administration…
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In 1990, 40% of young adults had a parent who served.
In the 90's they started really pushing 'Racial Quotas' and my older brother, who did not check any of the DEI boxes, decided after four (4) boards that being a good sailor was not enough for the US Navy despite his 24+ years of good service and Vietnam Vet status. Why serve if they don't want respect your service but only your ethnicity?
The current DEI Craze is just an eventual result of promoting the 'Racial Quota' people to higher and higher levels.
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...actually, the Army in the 19th Century had a high proportion of foreigners, Irish and German being among the more numerous. Male German Immigrants were sometime advised to do a hitch to learn English and have relatable work experience.
These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of Oct. 28, 2024, based on Navy and public data. In cases where a CSG or ARG is conducting disaggregated operations, the chart reflects the location of the capital ship.
[Breitbart] As the Biden-Harris administration’s term ends, its four-year focus on social reforms over combat readiness has left America’s armed forces woke, weak, and dangerously unprepared — with historically low military recruitment numbers, lowered standards, and compromised morale at a time of rising global threats.
The administration’s military policies prioritizing social agendas over readiness have resulted in a politicized, underfunded, undermanned, and unprepared force. Furthermore, under Biden and Harris, the military faced a recruitment crisis, with major branches repeatedly missing targets and standards lowered to meet numbers — impacting readiness.
SOCIAL REFORM OVER READINESS
From day one, the Biden-Harris administration vowed to "cleanse" the military by ridding the ranks of what it labeled "racists and Death Eaters."
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, requiring a congressional waiver to serve due to recent military service, immediately issued mandates to root out alleged extremism — which he deemed "absolutely unacceptable" — and promote diversity.
By early 2022, Pentagon data revealed that service members spent $1 million and nearly six million man-hours on "stand-down" days and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training rather than on mission-critical exercises, a move critics argue pulled focus from combat preparedness.
"We face real threats across the world, yet the Biden administration is more focused on promoting its leftist social agenda in the military instead of countering China, Russia and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... or creating an effective counterterrorism plan," said a dozen Senate Armed Services Committee Republicans in a joint statement at the time.
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First you got to purge the top levels. A good start is to set the ratio of general officers to enlisted as the same as during WW2 when we had a hellva lot more in uniform.
[GEO.TV] Swedish climate activist Greta "Pippi" Thunberg ...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change, though I guess she's older now... on Friday slammed sitting President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run.... and Vice President Kamala Harris launched her campaign on the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” — who is running against former president Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... — for their backing of Israel and its offensive in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... .
"Let's not forget that the genocide in Paleostine is happening under the Biden and Harris administration, with American money and complicity," Thunberg said.
"It is not in any way 'feminist', 'progressive' or 'humanitarian' to bomb innocent children and civilians — it is the opposite, even if it is a woman in charge."
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Dear Greta -
On behalf of the rest of the world, please shut - and I can not emphasize this enough - the fu@k up.
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Re #2: No, but rather like two radio stations with really lose frequencies; trying to tune only one in on an old fashioned radio ( think any 60’s car AM) only results in more unintelligible garbage.
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in January, Greta will be 22 years old.
she didn't graduate high school until 2023 because of the time she took off for protesting
don't know what college she will attend if any
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[JustTheNews] The Pentagon on Friday announced that the United States was sending more B-52 bombers, fighter jets, and Navy destroyers to the Middle East as the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Group gets ready to leave the region.
The new deployments come as Israel continues its war with Hamas and its backer, Iran. The conflict has not shown any signs of slowing, even as the United States urges both sides to reach a ceasefire, or after Hamas faced multiple losses in its leadership in recent months.
Pentagon spokesperson Air Force Major General Patrick Ryder did not indicate how many U.S. troops would be stationed in the Middle East, but warned Iran and its allies not to attack U.S. forces.
"Should Iran, its partners, or its proxies use this moment to target American personnel or interests in the region, the United States will take every measure necessary to defend our people," Ryder said in a statement reported by Reuters.
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...Miss Buffy does have a wonderful facility for concentrating one's mind.
[GEO.TV] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US envoys on Thursday that Israel's ability to counter threats to its security from Lebanon and return displaced people to the north were key elements of any ceasefire deal with Lebanon.
"The main issue is... Israel's ability and determination to enforce the agreement and thwart any threat to its security from Lebanon," Netanyahu's office cited him as telling two US envoys.
The envoys, Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein, were in Israel on a new push to secure ceasefires in both Lebanon and Gaza.
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[GEO.TV] A US envoy this week asked Lebanon to declare a unilateral ceasefire with Israel as part of an effort to help negotiations to reach a resolution for the more than year-long conflict, a senior Lebanese political source and a senior diplomat said.
The sources said the effort was communicated by US Lebanon Envoy Amos Hochstein to Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
[GEO.TV] American efforts to halt fighting between Israel and Hezbollah have failed after the US drafted an "unrealistic" ceasefire proposal and Israel's insistence on being able to enforce a truce directly, people briefed on the diplomacy told Reuters.
With no workable proposal on the table ahead of Tuesday's US presidential election, the conflict could drag on for months, according to a Lebanese political source close to Hezbollah, two diplomats and a person briefed on the talks.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run....
