SurelySerious
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Weird, when your donations no longer gain political influence, they stop? [emoji848]
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Speaking of bang for the buck, this seems well thought out on DOD reform. Unsure how implementing it will play out. https://defense360.csis.org/defense-reform-in-a-new-administration/
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Saddle up for Syria? Or Op Deny Christmas '13
SurelySerious replied to brickhistory's topic in General Discussion
Interesting take on Obama's personality and world-view. It isn't entirely a fit for this topic, but It deals a bit with the Syria debacle. Obama and the Limits of 'Fact-based' Foreign Policy https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/01/obama-foreign-policy/513380/ In short, despite reading tons of philosophy in college and reflecting on his views through opposing ones...he can't comprehend that anyone would have a view that doesn't fit his mold. -
I think the connection he's making is that they're making such a big deal about leaks and shiite or the Snowden deal, and then they go and make it clear that leaking classified is NBD by cutting this sentence down.
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In the article it specifies a range of per square foot costs of office building construction/renovations for the CSprings area. This falls at the high end of the scale, but on the scale nonetheless. For an office area that you would expect to look nice, in a 60 year old building that fits within the normal range, I think they're making a big deal about nothing, honestly.
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A reason the Democratic party is reeling: newly elected CA Senator Kamala Harris chose to use her allotted time with CIA nominee Pompeo inquiring about climate change. The Climate Intelligence Agency
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WSJ Trump May Herold a New Political Order: Seldom does a Presidential election mark a permanent shift. The Last time it happened was 1932. Trump May Herald a New Political Order - WSJ.pdf Interesting analysis of the historical contexts of large changes in US policy, and what allowed them to happen versus when some were constrained by opposing congressional moods. Notable snippets
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Glad this Yale professor thinks this is 1930s Germany, and that everyone is a moron. https://qz.com/846940/a-yale-history-professors-20-point-guide-to-defending-democracy-under-a-trump-presidency/
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Worth the listen: Brookings Cafeteria with Michael O'Hanlon on Trump's National Security and Defense Team https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/trumps-national-security-and-defense-team/
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I think you could make the case that direct election of the Senators makes them less accountable to the people, because the constituency has become those bankrolling the campaign. When there are two seats per state at a term of six years, wealthy people/corporations can find it easily palatable to throw their full weight behind a candidate that they'll then have an in with.
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Maybe, maybe not. They've got their almost-new Eurofighters. The UK has a specific role to throw the F-35B into, whereas that's not a capability ze Germans needed a replacement for. The Netherlands has a bunch of F-16s to replace. I'm not saying they're not slacking, just that they might not have been compelled to buy into the JSF for other reasons that NATO partners do have.
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Just some humorous Saturday night juxtaposition.
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Russia loves turbulence in the international community, and especially within NATO. Anything that weakens the resolve or causes certainty to waffle is good, in their mind. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2017-01-04/rapprochement-russias-terms Recent and similar topic.
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Probably worthy of its own service because of how different a medium it is to any of the other services; Bender made a case, though, at his 2015 A/TA speech that every service will have cyber needs of some sort that are unique to them (although mostly in the customer service sense). Maybe a cyber entity for the operations supplemented by the regular NIPR things within each component. Whatever it is, it isn't sticking it inside AFSPC sts, that's for sure.
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I think that's highlighting exactly why Gen Bender is out talking to people, actually. There's a large difference between cyber operations operations and the "operations" that are customer services they provide the users of NIPR...but 96% of us only care about the customer service side in a direct manner, whereas he sees the need for cross-talk about the extreme amount of effort and innovation needed for the other 4% that are the warfare tools of the future. It's very akin to the beginnings of Army Aviation in the signal corps, and trying to get people to take using those new tools to fight seriously versus thinking they're nice trinkets.
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
SurelySerious replied to Toro's topic in General Discussion
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
SurelySerious replied to Toro's topic in General Discussion
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True story. Where they want to rank the failed-out-of-wic guy behind joe bagodonuts finance guy because he didn't pass training.
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Since everyone's favorite altruistic cyber activist was mentioned, fortuitously he was a hot topic in the WSJ this weekend. TLDR version from the House report: Full Opinion: The Fable of Edward Snowden by Edward Jay Epstein WSJ_-A009-20161231.pdf
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McCain could pick any number of actual monetary abuses in the DOD, but instead picks one that will impact compensation for the military members. It's as if he's so senile as to have forgotten that he was once in these shoes.
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Too much time campaigning and fund raising with too little time legislating.
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I will admit that I haven't read all 23 pages yet, but the TLDR version is these individuals think Trump is in violation of the letter, spirit and intent of the Emoluments clause. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/gs_121616_emoluments-clause1.pdf I think it's interesting, could have applied just as much to HRC, and will likely be a problem for any high-profile candidate that, for instance, runs a big money charity or philanthropy organization.
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Tangentially related to discussions here and the cyber thread: How to improve and move forward for the fourth estate: https://www.brookings.edu/research/what-the-debate-over-journalism-post-trump-gets-wrong/
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If you're familiar with his talk at the 2015 A/TA convention, was Gen Bender's talk at your location similar in nature to that? If not, and you can post the notes, I'd be interested in seeing what his current topics are. I think his ideas are solid based on my perspective having seen that speech video, having perused through his flight plan, and having met him briefly.
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Again, Dem, don't play try playing the red/blue piece here. I didn't say I was ok with the action of hacking; I said I don't think we should be taking escalatory/retaliatory action on hacking a political party with their tail between their legs. Foreign powers are more inside the political parties with their purse strings than with their computers. The harm here is superficial. It's not actual secrets, nor actual government infrastructure, nor commercial espionage.
