The other problem that CINCSOC has, and I do not have the impression there is anyone pushing this issue to the head of the table, is that the SOF “spearhead” is an empty token when mounted on a broken shaft — a “shredded spear.” Among CINCSOC’s challenges are the plain fact that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) does not manage; the US secret intelligence world refuses to provide holistic whole of government preventive intelligence, and there is no money allocated for peaceful preventive measures as called for in the article I ghost wrote in 1989 for General Al Gray, then Commandant of the Marine Corps, Global Intelligence Challenges. Along with my own 1990 Intelligence in the 1990′s – Six Challenges it remains the definitive forecast and the definitive indictment of how the US Government does national security — badly, expensively, with generally catastrophic results for all concerned less the bankers — something General Smedley Butler, USMC, denounced in his own way, with his book, War is a Racket (Feral House, 2003). From where I sit, it is time for CINCSOC to get a grip on three realities:
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:04:20 +0000
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