Where will America be when gasoline prices continue to rise, and the transportation costs of goods and people become exponentially bigger than expected? North America is roughly twice the size (42 million Km^2) of Europe (10 million Km^2) but has…
Category: Politics
Shame on you! All of you!
That’s it! I am done! I am done with the main stream media (MSM). I am done with the BS bloggers. Done. We are holding a presidential election. We are trying to determine who will lead us for the next…
Hacking a computer with a microphone
While talking with one of my students tonight I was reminded of this article. How about using a microphone to hack the key of a system? Using acoustic signature to get the encryption key and other information as a passive…
The Air Force is moving ahead with work on the cyber command
The Air Force is moving ahead with work on the cyber command (LINK). Air Force moving ahead with Cyber Command The Air Force is moving ahead on establishing its new Cyber Command, searching for permanent facilities and planning meetings to…
Future technology
The Army has embarked on a 200 billion dollar project to increase the technology that it uses and has some interesting implications. When we talk about security we often talk about defense in depth. In computers it is a series…
A mild rebuttal to John Robb’s open source warfare
“The US military is on the slow path to the realization that nation-building — from reconstruction to other forms of traditional COIN dogma that serve to return legitimacy to the government — doesn’t work. Politics and populations in our new…
Baby boomers….
They were born from the greatest generation. Their parents lived through depression, fought in an enormous war, and built the American economy and industry. The parents of the baby boomers created the American dream and then spoiled it into delirium…
Cyber-warfare threat or hype?
Center of gravity constructs look at the strategic, operational, and tactical elements of an adversary to identify weak points in the over all capability of resistance. Cyber-warfare attacks the computing and communication infrastructure of the adversary through a variety of…
Economic collapse
Is it possible that economic warfare could be waged on the United States or that we could be in the middle of a form of economic warfare? Some would say business is warfare and there is an expansive library of…
We are in a time of crisis, but what does that mean?
When people defend the Patriot Act, the warrant-less wiretaps, and the other infringements on American civil liberties, they often point out that we are in a time of crisis and these sorts of things are necessary during a crisis. What…
Dear Britney!
I think I may be the only person who really feels sorry for Britney Spears. I do not find any kind of entertainment in watching the interviews or the VMAs where she performs very badly. When I look at Britney,…
Counter Insurgency (COIN) as different levels of war
It seems like a lot of people have defined counter-insurgency doctrine at different levels of war. I’ve been trying to construct a VENN diagram showing elements of low intensity conflict for a project and came up with some things that…
The F-Word
As a former Marine I take umbrage at to much political correctness…. The f-word is a capital letter, comma, period, exclamation mark, and hyphen. It fills the role of punctuation in the speech of a Marine. It should be used…
Block Cheese and Wires: Are you afraid?
In the news today is a story about a TSA alert brought on by block cheese and wires (CNN.com). After seeing the story it seemed an interesting coincidence that the alert comes just a week after The Secretary of Homeland…
I’m terrified of the terrorism(ist)
I’ve been thinking about the concepts of terrorist, terrorism, insurgent, and what these terms mean to our resulting interest in international relations. The discussion keeps popping up to delineate the terms and codify the meanings. Coming to a common consensus…