Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Joint Chiefs of Staff’

Rigidity is the reason that the west is in so much trouble

I’ll admit that I’m hostile to tradition. This is a deficit on my part. There’s nothing wrong with tradition itself. However, it too often becomes rigidity, which is the bane of western civilization. Implacable rigidity I had a surreal exchange on Twitter that exemplifies the rigidity that cripples westerners. A man wants the US military…

 

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Good conspiracy theories should be at least slightly plausible

Attention hog Seymour Hersh claims that the United States Department of Defense Joint Chiefs of Staff—the highest-ranking bureaucrats in the Pentagon—gave Bashar al-Assad intelligence to help him defeat jihadist terrorists. This isn’t even a good conspiracy theory. Hersh made it all up, as is clear by his claim that his source is a “former senior…

 

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Military deception (MILDEC)

Military deception (MILDEC) is actions executed to deliberately mislead adversary military, paramilitary, or violent extremist organization decision makers, thereby causing the adversary to take specific actions (or inactions) that will contribute to the accomplishment of the friendly mission. —Joint Chiefs of Staff United States Department of Defense Daily I get messages from angry people telling…

 

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