Whether you look at the reign of a Tillerson, or the “Christian warrior” Pompeo, the GOP leadership destroyed the State Department and it’s having a disastrous effect right now. Foreign Policy: Morale has hit rock bottom at Foggy Bottom, as American foreign service officers languish and Rex Tillerson builds a mini-empire. GovExec: State Department Says … Continue reading GOP Wrecked State Department: Americans Now Abandoned, Left for Dead in Sudan→
An inability to translate clear signals is perhaps the most interesting lesson I’ve found from an analysis of North Korea’s 1968 capture of the USS Pueblo spy ship. The following paragraph comes from unclassified CIA files: Studies in Intelligence Vol 59, No. 1 (Extracts, March 2015). The ship would gain little insight or warning from … Continue reading USS Pueblo Capture by North Korea: Weak Translation to Blame?→
The WarZone has a back-and-forth analysis of a second raid on Pearl Harbor, by long-range “flying boat” bombers from Japan, that leaves the reader (or maybe it’s just me) scratching their head. They had been able to intercept and read U.S. weather reports that would have helped find a window with clear weather over Pearl … Continue reading Japanese attack after Pearl Harbor was thrown off by change to American code→
Just three years after a code of ethics was drafted in Nuremberg (condemning Nazis for experimenting on humans without consent and with no benefit to test subjects) the US started a massive bioweapons test… violating the code: Over a period of six days in September 1950, members of the US Navy sprayed clouds of Serratia … Continue reading 1950 Operation Sea Spray: Bioweapons Test on San Francisco→