Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners
Quotes of the Day:
"There are but two ways of forming an opinion in science. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. Once can judge from experiment, or one can blindly accept authority. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all important and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything and facts are junked when they no longer fit the theory laid down by authority."
- Robert A. Heinlein - Life Line
"The fourth wave of disinformation slowly built and crested in the mid-2010s, with disinformation reborn and reshaped by new technologies and internet culture. The old art of slow-moving, highly skilled, close-range, labor intensive psychological influence had turned high-tempo, low-skilled, remote, and disjointed. Active measures were now not only more active than ever before but less measured - so much so that the term itself became contested and unsettled."
- Thomas Rid, Active Measures - The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
“The most effective strategies do not depend solely on violence—though this can play an instrumental role, by demonstrating superiority as much as expressing aggression—but benefit instead from the ability to forge coalitions. Little in the rest of this book will suggest that this list should be expanded. The elements of strategic behavior have not changed, only the complexity of the situations in which they must be applied.”
- Lawrence Freedman, Strategy: A History
1. Biden to Approve Austin's Request to Make COVID-19 Vaccine Mandatory for Service Members
2. Austin Seeks Presidential Approval for Mandatory Troop Vaccinations by Mid-September
3. Pentagon chief under fire for withholding information about deadly Kenya attack
4. U.S. Special Forces conduct joint training with once-controversial Japanese Special Ops
5. British special forces in Yemen, hunting for group that struck Mercer Street tanker
6. Joe Biden Should Follow George Washington's Lead and 'Inoculate All the Troops’
7. Pentagon moves to mandate coronavirus vaccination for all troops
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