And that is the point everyone seams to be missing. Indeed, with the deployment of stealth aircraft, first B-2s and then F-22s, Hagel understood the importance of putting advanced US technology and capabilities up against the problem.
At least Hagel understands the importance of Observation in the OODA loop of an adversary. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan should have taught us the rest.
via CDR Salamander: Shhhh …. you’re bothering the transformationalists ….
“Obviously a recording device of some kind was placed in Senator McConnell’s campaign office without consent. By whom and how that was accomplished presumably will be the subject of a criminal investigation.”
Yeah, some “kind” of recording device, ha!
Probably the same kind of “recording device” that caught Romney on record acting himself in a video.
via McConnell asks FBI to investigate leaked recording on Ashley Judd – The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room.
I believe those were the words the guy in charge of Obama’s legacy used to describe the US military’s pivot towards, or what is now called, the “Indo-Pacific”.
The words used to describe the pivot was changed from “Asia-Pacific” to “Indo-Pacific”. The words were changed to highlight the most important partner in the area included in the pivot.
I believe the guy in charged used “enduring values” (if that was the correct quote) in his conversation about the ”pivot”, because a “pivot” with “enduring values” in its narrative has no change in momentum nor values.
The US military representing the values of the U.S.A isn’t turning towards the Pacific, because it never really left. All the US military needs to know is whose with them in this pivot.
In other words, in order for the US to pivot towards the Pacific, we don’t have to fight the momentum of changing values to get there. Our values are in the pivot, and they are highlighted in India.
So I guess the guy was basically saying “stuff it”, we are pivoting towards an area of the globe in which our values are the same as India’s and everyone else within the area of the Indo-Pacific Pivot.
For a nation such as the US, who are supposed to be sons of Abraham, this is quite a big deal. For an area that owns most of our debt, it is a reassurance of the repaying of that debt.
I think this repaying of debt is going to surprize a bunch of people in the US, who thought nukes countered debt (rock over paper).
North Korea first.
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TOKYO – Japan will order its armed forces to shoot down any North Korean missile headed towards its territory, press reports said Sunday as Pyongyang was reportedly readying to fire one.
If you are a gamer, such as the North and South Korean military seems to be, “headed towards” is a very big statement.
If the missile is flying over Japan and projected to land somewhere on the other side of Japan, then is it actually “heading towards” Japan?
Not really unless there is a failure in its propulsion system. Then Japan should shoot it down, if Korea is unable to destroy the missile itself.
You see the problem with Japan’s order is that force and mass in a distribution of energy are not necessarily related in direction. As the missile flies over Japan the force of gravity is towards Japan, but the mass of the missile is not “headed” towards Japan.
So if the Japanese destroys the missile flying over Japan, unless the propulsion system is not functioning correctly, they are not destroying a missile that is headed towards Japan, they are destroying a missile that is heading somewhere else.
As Gamers, North Korea would be obliged to retaliate against Japan, as Japan’s politicians enter the “game”.
Could it be that Japan’s politicians don’t understand that it’s a game? If they don’t, they should update quickly.
In 2010, a South Korean Island known as Yeonpyeong was struck by dozens of North Korean artillery shells. Two South Korean soldiers were killed and more than a dozen persons were injured. The atrocity raised international brows waiting for South Korea to retaliate.
Tolerance between each other, maybe, but I believe the North and South Korea have been gaming each other for years. So the tolerance is between players, but not in the situation each player finds themselves in. Each player has different relationship to the common environment.
China has always had a love for North Korea’s ability to control their people. But after 60 years of war, North Korea hasn’t changed much, but China has. It is this change in China that makes the “proof” in provocations no longer valid.
China is moving the center of gravity of the Military Industrial Governmental Complex (MIGC), once centered in the US, to Asia. What a MIGC centered in Asia needs most is war.
In a Complex and to get rid of entropy that is inherited in the creation of the weapons of war, war is needed to simplify the environment the old Complex is moving towards and the environment the new Complex is moving away from.
So what China needs first and foremost is a war that will once and for all tranfer the center of gravity to Asia.
But China doesn’t need a war that involves the center gravity of old (USA and its allies).
A war that involves the US or its allies will not help in the new alignment. The alignment needs to be completed with precision and accuracy. War that involves the US or its allies will prove very sloppy.
In fact, because the outcome of war is an unknown, what China needs now is a war that will not include the US, nor South Korea. What China needs now is a war with North Korea. I believe China is building up towards that goal.
In contrast, what North Korea needs now is help from South Korea to keep China from taking over the Korean peninsula, and creating another Hong Kong in the process.
South Korea is very nationalist and becoming another Hong Kong is something they will not take without a fight.
What North Korea needs now is the skills of a master gamer, and unite the peninsula under the Korean brand. It is yet to be seen if the Kim dynasty will be able to provide those skills.
If I am correct and things are heating up like they have never before, then it will be hard to see what is happening, unless you are a master gamer.
This is something the US military has not shown any skills in of late, and probably should just pass on.
via Kerry Patton: Historical Military Provocations Prove North and South Korea Tolerance.
Sooner or later — within a few years, I predict — this latest Wall Street bubble, inflated by an egregious flood of phony money from the Federal Reserve rather than real economic gains, will explode, too.
A “bubble” is a strategy, not a tactic. As my posting Bayesian Strategy suggests, American corporation no longer think strategically, so the strategy will mostly be lost on them.
I no doubt that this bubble will “explode”, as in the past, but that is a part of the strategy, i.e., explode everything–buy-back what was not actually in the bubble.
When these bubbles explode, everything drops, which means there is an opportunity for great wealth, if entropy can be recovered in the “explosion”.
Entropy is energy that is not available in a distribution of energy. In a bubble, the energy not available is that which is not expanding.
In other words, the corporations or the land that was actually worth the exorbitant price at the time of explosions were not a part of the bubble, but represented energy that was not available to those expanding the bubble.
The entropy energy that internet corporations and real estate represented in their respective bubbles was not available to speculators buying corporations or real estate, because the entropy energy within the bubbles was just too costly to be of any use to speculators.
Remember, power (in this case the movement of entropy energy) is not something of nature it is created by man in God’s image, and, as described in the New Testament, speculated on.
So bubble speculators needed to buy internet and high value real estate at greatly reduced prices, hence the the strategy of the bubble was born.
The corporations or real estate that were in entropy came out of entropy and fell as everything else fell. This is called creative destruction.
Creative destruction along with creative creativity are a part of what is called the OODA loop. In this diagram destruction and creation is labeled ”D&C”.
This “explosion” of the bubble allowed individuals or corporations to gobble up prime corporations and prime real estate for near nothing and begin the process of waiting for prices to increase.
Once the price increases bubble speculators sell the entropy energy for unimaginable profits, which is one way entropy energy is put to use in a system.
The same thing will happen when this new Wall Street bubble explodes. The wealth that inflated this bubble will be gobbled up by bubble speculators and the entropy energy extracted.
The Cheap Trick of this strategy is catching the entropy as the price drops, but the question is: who is inflating this new Wall Street bubble?
I will give you a hint, it’s strategists It’s the people who see the End, Ways and Means of things.
My guess is that these people are global and multinational, and will represent a change, in what was once an American financial institution, forever.
Of course American institutions are still a buy at twice the price, but, fortunately for those who are doing the inflating, they will not have to pay that much.
In 1960, when vastly more Americans were involved in physical labor of some kind, 0.65% of workforce participants between the ages of 18 and 64 were receiving Social Security disability insurance payments. Fifty years later, in a much healthier America that number has grown to 5.6%.
I am not sure it is a healthier America, even though people seem to live longer. Apparently todays generation will be the first generation that doesn’t live longer than its parents.
When it comes to war fighting, the military didn’t seem to have a problem finding recruits to fight our wars in the 60′s, but it is now estimated that 75% of military aged people of this generation would be unfit for the military draft.
In a kind of “Forrest Gump” kind of logic, healthy is as healthy does.
