Tales of the Trail Boss, Pt 1: Meet The Trail Boss
Tales of the Trail Boss is a series about our initial push into Iraq and the young folks of our armed forces who were there. It happened something like this…
Military
Biden Humiliated After Hobby Club’s Science Balloon Is Reported as ‘Missing in Action’
If it turns out that President Joe Biden actually ordered an F-22 Raptor to shoot down a hobby club’s weather balloon with a $400,000 sidewinder missile, he will deserve all the ridicule he gets. The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade is a small group of balloon enthusiasts “aged 11-years-old and up, kids, their parents and friends” …
Military Recruiting Challenges are Becoming Systemic Part 2
Disincentivizing Military Service: Undoing more than Two Decades of Public Support for the Military Without Even Trying, Stink, Stank, Stunk (Stinking)
Military Recruiting Challenges are Becoming Systemic, Part 1
Military recruiting is like any other potential ramification progression associated with this administration: Could implode, is imploding, imploded.
May The Force Be With Us.
“In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.” –Yoda Defense One just printed an admission by the Navy Secretary which warns if the defense industry can’t boost production, arming both Ukraine and the US may become “challenging.” Gosh, who would have ever thought that? Could it be OSD, the JCS, and the individual …
National Intelligence Folly: How a Tragic Unsolved Murder Led to Billions of Dollars of Program Fraud, Waste and Abuse Part 30: And the Beat Goes On!
Portfolio Management of the Dream State Variety. Making projects up is not a best practice, what about a portfolio management technique?
Woke Military, Means Weak Military
A Woke military means a weak military; A primer on the consequences of lowering military recruiting standards, from a former Commander’s perspective.
The Oath
In Norse culture, if a Viking took an oath and went back on the oath, it was said that his sword would turn against him in battle and incur the wrath of the gods.
Another Leadership Story; “How Are You Doing Joe?”
There is another leadership story I would like to tell. I tell this to future officers when I get the chance. In 2011, I was the appointed leader of an organization. While I owned the responsibility given to me, I never felt I deserved the role. One day, my boss’s boss asked me how I …
National Intelligence Folly: How a Tragic Unsolved Murder Led to Billions of Dollars of Program Fraud, Waste and Abuse Part 21 The Beat Goes On-at What Cost?
The NRO FIA program continues to struggle on the optical side, while the radar and ground deliveries hum along. However, radar is no substitute for optical and as we close on demonstrating some uses that exemplify the value of radar while acknowledging such, FIA failure to deliver has brought the community to the brink of a Gap in capability.
National Intelligence Folly: How a Tragic Unsolved Murder Led to Billions of Dollars of Program Fraud, Waste and Abuse Part 20: Good Money After Bad
Henry Ford creates the assembly line and Def Sec McNamara creates a DoD program budget methodology that works very well for many programs but is not a panacea in consideration of Moore’s law. Meanwhile the NRO FIA program keeps digging (spending) in an attempt to buy their way to completion.
Military Recruitment Another Austin Milley Debacle
By the time you are reading this, Congress will most likely have passed a bill requiring the Pentagon to revoke its vaccine mandates for servicemembers. That is a victory for the rights of military personnel, and a rebuke of the Biden administration and the political apparatchiks populating the Pentagon and the Defense Department. Perhaps this …
National Intelligence Folly: How a Tragic Unsolved Murder Led to Billions of Dollars of Program Fraud, Waste and Abuse Part 17
How George Tenant became DCI, and Keith Hall Dir NRO: two former Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff make good. The 4C1000 NRO History From 1962-1990.
National Intelligence Folly: How a Tragic Unsolved Murder Led to Billions of Dollars of Program Fraud, Waste and Abuse Part 16 Decoder Edition
A review of what you may have missed so far, as the costs pile up and ravage the IC budget like a wildfire and we review salient points about why.
National Intelligence Folly: How a Tragic Unsolved Murder Led to Billions of Dollars of Program Fraud, Waste and Abuse Part 15
NGA works requirements documentation and struggles with GEOSCOUT. The GAP Study Team finds a miracle in the Boeing proposal: the DNI makes a momentous decision.
National Intelligence Folly: How a Tragic Unsolved Murder Led to Billions of Dollars of Program Fraud, Waste and Abuse Part 14
FIA optical costs grow an order of magnitude, but schedule analytics barely estimate a 50% chance of delivery: but the IC funds projects at the expense of programs.
National Intelligence Folly: How a Tragic Unsolved Murder Led to Billions of Dollars of Program Fraud, Waste and Abuse Part 13
Red Sox break the curse of the Babe, Boeing proposes miracles in their proposal and the GAP Study focuses on the timing, extent and duration of the problem.
National Intelligence Folly: How a Tragic Unsolved Murder Led to Billions of Dollars of Program Fraud, Waste and Abuse Part 12
The Gap Study gains momentum, and we go down memory lane on a number of IC programs that exemplify how poor the acquisition record has been for a long time
National Intelligence Folly: How a Tragic Unsolved Murder Led to Billions of Dollars of Program Fraud, Waste and Abuse Part 10
NRO FIA program struggles amid acquisition nuances and spiraling costs that wipe out a decade worth of promising technology programs from ~2004-2008 to pay the bill.
Planes, Tanks, Ships and Modern Warfare
Planes, Tanks, and Ships; The New Look of Modern Warfare, Bigger Doesn’t Mean Better