In this article from Foreign Policy, John Arquilla, a military strategist who helped coin the concept of “netwar”, critiques the failure of the U.S. military to adapt to the changing social and technological conditions that shape conflicts around the world.  He writes that in most cases, even when military commanders were open to the concept,… Read more »

The Hawaii Five-O movie will be shot on O’ahu in March.  One blog described the preparations for the shoot: The Five-0 pilot reportedly will include a large number of second unit filming and special effects, including land and water chases and a Striker Force vehicle (s?) that’s blown into the air where it spins around… Read more »

Vincent Pollard, a Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai’i forwarded this link to an article about the U.S. military bases in Okinawa that was published in the People’s Daily, an official news organ of the Communist Party of China.  He noted how rare it is for the Communist Party of China to… Read more »

Coservative pundit and former presidential adviser Pat Buchanan calls for the liquidation of empire, beginning with the global network of U.S. military bases. >><< http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2010/02/22/liquidating-the-empire-2/ Liquidating the Empire by Patrick J. Buchanan, February 23, 2010 A decade ago, Oldsmobile went. Last year, Pontiac. Saturn, Saab, and Hummer were discontinued. A thousand GM dealerships shut down…. Read more »

The following article in the New York TImes showcases the military’s environmental preservation programs.  The Pentagon is trying to  polish its ‘green’ because of its terrible history of environmental destruction.  The military has a program called “sustainable range intitiatives”, which interpret “sustainable” to mean sustaining their destructive activities, not exactly what most people think of… Read more »