Nom de Plume Brett

I like how Bill Burns's memoir the most he ever says about Ben Rhodes is "and Ben Rhodes was there"

At some point design, systems based approaches, complexity require a means where insights are developed along a sound methodology that enables falsifiability and repeatability. The limits of OR's determinism and adherence to economic man theory as a first principle needs the counter that NA provides

It is definitely something.

Well the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance does exist (and I would argue is a dead letter), but trying to remember it's name I have found the greatest chart ever to be constructed.

reports needed for Harold Brown to be useful. Anyways we are all very luck Brown was one of the smartest men in Gov service and could peace together the offset strategy that would be carried forward by Regan's menagerie of secretaries of defense.

Even with skilled strategists and analysts working on these problems. I would argue partially because Andy was the only one with access to the most classified information and briefings on things like HAVE BLUE. Also the 4 years of Carter were pointless because he could not have his staff write the

So I have never gotten to read an ONA net assessment, and with that qualifier, all of my readings and even the Marshall interview book really speaks to even when work was done by others without Andy at best wheels would spin but nothing would have been produced.

I mean it does help when everyone else is even more underfed and shorter too.

I would note this is not intelligence in the normal Intelligence way if it is being conducted by ICE (which considering HSI's specialty is high end investigations that is now being used for a terror campaign is very likely.)

Immigration enforcement gets all fucky tho, particularity with Justice Kavanaugh's recent stay pending hearing.

Personally I am going to wait for it to become an XKCD comic in 6 to 9 months.

(I might pick up the book one day but I do agree with this sentiment.)

(I think this should be part of the conversation on is “DC is an oral society that pretends to be a literate society”)

If you look at the surveys done on media consumption and information transfer in societies *very few* people actualy consume information, in this case propaganda, and process it vs get the information organically from social connections.

Well Bull Halsey is dead so that’s a good sign. (The ARG and the CSG are clear of it some CG cutters may be closer but they get live ~ish~ weather data)

Wild.

(Now I will note a simple majority would be able to fix this problem if they wanted to.)

But yeah slap some boots and duck tape on and you have a decent and cheap pressure suit that will make goons look dumb.

Do need to work in teams tho!!!

So some quick notes:
Big enough to wear a backpack (especially if you wanted to run cooling and air filtration)
Would probably just run it off of a power tool battery for real use.
May need some heat dumping equipment.
Would replace the port hole with something more substantial (1/16” plexi?)

This is for a party.

So I am wearing a frog suit to properly proselytize the revolution. And to be honest not bad.

So I think switching from calling it psychological operations to information operations is sort of a true change but on the other hand it just suckles on the tit of insane Russian math.

While there is a decent amount of organized TNCO violence and fire arms evolutionary pressure has not stressed state security forces in the same way as TNCO’s have in Mexico and states are consequently much less capable of responding with even more vulnerable targets then in Mexico.

This misses the real bad option: something goes down in the souther Caribbean windward islands.

Has the mayor met patrol cops, or read their reports? Like the message sure it's good but entirely wrong tone and style for getting to your targeted audience. This is an appeal to split state security agents away from the state, is this what you want to attempt to do that?

The "fusion startup" I'm worried about with this tbh

I mean they are *recoilless* so I feel like the tiny drone should love the big gun.

Someone should put a recoilless rifle on a drone.

Space force likes this idea.

Airforce? I feel like they might be even less relevant to their military ambitions. Thanks SecDef for thinking objectively cheap unsupported special operations are the tits.

Just lay off the navy.

This in any context implies a massive decrease in state capability, I think some in the administration are fine with that (DOJ/FBI/ DOD) but DHS and Stephen Miller much less so.