maandag 27 oktober 2008

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'Pentagon Panel: Biden Was Right, Prep for 'Crisis'
By Noah Shachtman
October 27, 2008
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/pentagon-panel.html


The McCain campaign pounced the other day, when Joe Biden said that his running mate would be tested by an international crisis at the start of his White House tenure. But the chairman of a key Pentagon advisory panel is sounding a similar warning, telling the next administration to "prepare for a likely first-270-days crisis."
Veteran Pentagon consultant Michael Bayer, chairman of the Defense Business Board, told his fellow panelists that the new president's inner circle should "set aside time in transition to identify the planning, gravitas and interagency process necessary to respond to a likely first-270-day crisis."
From Kennedy (Bay of Pigs) to Johnson (Gulf of Tonkin) to Bush (9/11)," too many presidents were ill prepared for this," Bayer warns.
"For months, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the service chiefs and the Joint Staff have been preparing for the first wartime transfer of Pentagon political authority in four decades," notes Inside Defense, which broke word of Bayer's presentation. "In addition to identifying defense policy issues for an incoming to understand, the military is also on high operational alert."
Let even op wie Noah Schachtman is, hij weet veel van het Israelische oorlogsapparaat: http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001927.html En: http://www.noahshachtman.com/archives/001117.html

1 opmerking:

Anoniem zei

Voor het geval Obama wint en er is een crisis: hier een beetje inzicht in Obama's gedachten over de US Constitution:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f3e_1225114513

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