A traditional old time movie shows what the world was like when asymmetrical activity only happened in the animal world. What has gone wrong?
Friday, June 22, 2012
The Real China
Several years ago while in China for business I took a weekend and went to the Great Wall with by local Beijing Sales team. The two associates that acted as my host had done so many times but never with anyone as knowledgeable in Chinese history as me. While leaving one of the museums we noticed dozens of military trucks pulling up. The local PLA base uses the Great Wall as the location of their weekly graduation ceremony. This would of course be akin to a USMC recruit class at Quantico going to the Washington
Monument to graduate. About 1,000 young Chinese got out of the trucks along with their drill instructors and marched in formation to the top of the Great Wall. Right behind them were their parents,boyfriends & girlfriends, (the graduating class was COED ) , "Don't Ask /Don't Tell Hasn't Reached the a PLA yet . The drill instructors lined the unit up and went into a typical pitch. Having only several months before watched my son graduate from his USAF basic training made me realize that drill instructors were the same all over the world. ( At least in organized provisional state oriented military groups vs. Jihad central). When the ceremony was over ---it strangely paralleled what I had seen a few months before with the top squad , top recruit ,etc. mentioned , the graduates embraced their family members and left to celebrate. As I looked at the feet of the graduates I noticed almost every ones pants had holes in the bottom and their dress shoes were falling apart. As we followed them back to their trucks I noticed the trucks so resembled Tonka Toys from the 60's I couldn't help but smile and wondered what an air to ground missile from an F-16 would do to them. What's the point for bringing this up. Simple. China isn't our enemy. They may be pushing us economically which we need . If anyone takes time to visit China they will find that it's becoming what we used to be. The biggest fights I saw were people trying to get onto the limited shuttle buses that were taking shoppers to the newly opened Walmart . At the Chinese McDonalds ,KFC,& Pizza Hut
while they speak Chinese vs. Spanish and you are better understood and your order is correct vs. here. So stop trying to stir up anti Chinese sentiment by harping on defense cuts and preparing to fight China. Yes we need to fund our forces at the highest amount ; but for technology that makes sense and can be used for both the next 100 year asymmetrical era as well as classical conflict via the Jihadist wave hick jacking nation states ( Egypt,Libya,and the already hijacked Iran thanks to a weak presidents understanding of global dynamics ).
For details on what types of technology can be used to secure ourselves with a solution in surveillance and security in an asymmetrical era please see posts at :
http://www.surveillanceandsecurityinanasymmetricalera.com
Constructive comments that can leverage anyone's product or position are welcome
Monument to graduate. About 1,000 young Chinese got out of the trucks along with their drill instructors and marched in formation to the top of the Great Wall. Right behind them were their parents,boyfriends & girlfriends, (the graduating class was COED ) , "Don't Ask /Don't Tell Hasn't Reached the a PLA yet . The drill instructors lined the unit up and went into a typical pitch. Having only several months before watched my son graduate from his USAF basic training made me realize that drill instructors were the same all over the world. ( At least in organized provisional state oriented military groups vs. Jihad central). When the ceremony was over ---it strangely paralleled what I had seen a few months before with the top squad , top recruit ,etc. mentioned , the graduates embraced their family members and left to celebrate. As I looked at the feet of the graduates I noticed almost every ones pants had holes in the bottom and their dress shoes were falling apart. As we followed them back to their trucks I noticed the trucks so resembled Tonka Toys from the 60's I couldn't help but smile and wondered what an air to ground missile from an F-16 would do to them. What's the point for bringing this up. Simple. China isn't our enemy. They may be pushing us economically which we need . If anyone takes time to visit China they will find that it's becoming what we used to be. The biggest fights I saw were people trying to get onto the limited shuttle buses that were taking shoppers to the newly opened Walmart . At the Chinese McDonalds ,KFC,& Pizza Hut
while they speak Chinese vs. Spanish and you are better understood and your order is correct vs. here. So stop trying to stir up anti Chinese sentiment by harping on defense cuts and preparing to fight China. Yes we need to fund our forces at the highest amount ; but for technology that makes sense and can be used for both the next 100 year asymmetrical era as well as classical conflict via the Jihadist wave hick jacking nation states ( Egypt,Libya,and the already hijacked Iran thanks to a weak presidents understanding of global dynamics ).
For details on what types of technology can be used to secure ourselves with a solution in surveillance and security in an asymmetrical era please see posts at :
http://www.surveillanceandsecurityinanasymmetricalera.com
Constructive comments that can leverage anyone's product or position are welcome
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Boeing's Private Space Taxi to Take Flight by 2016 | CST-100 Capsule : How Will Assets Like This Effect Surveillance and Security In An Asymmetrical Era?
With the end of shuttle operations the land rush or as it were space rush is on to be a supplier of transpiration systems to carry materials and people into space. The international space station will stay in operation and the stores and personal to man it will be transported by vehicles created and manufactured by private companies. The question then becomes how will this new paradigm effect the ability to conduct surveillance and security from space? The potential scenarios are endless with of course opportunities for any terror group or individual of that persuasion to have the ability to gain control of a platform and engage in activity that would emulate 9/11 space themed scenarios.
This publication serves as an extensive resource to review topics related to space and the associated areas potentially dealing with surveillance and security.
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