When President Donald Trump chose Pete Hegseth for Defense secretary, incoming officials knew they’d need to surround the inexperienced Fox News host with accomplished staff who could handle the nation’s largest bureaucracy. Hegseth would be the show horse, they figured, and others at the top would keep the Pentagon on track. What happened was the opposite. Hegseth surrounded himself with advisers who quickly turned into vicious rivals for power — whose bitter brawl has now unraveled into revenge power plays, surprise firings, accusations of leaking and embarrassing headlines that are blowing up the Pentagon, distracting from Trump’s agenda and possibly jeopardizing Hegseth’s job.
Many administration feuds are driven by ideological or factional differences, splitting old-school conservatives from MAGA headliners and “America First” activists. That does not appear to be the case here: This one is all about personality conflict, according to interviews with nine current and former Defense Department officials as well as others close to the feud, granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive political issue. Hegseth’s closest advisers privately jockeyed for influence, creating festering distrust and gamesmanship that has rocked the world’s premier defense agency.
The extent of the feud, which has been previously unreported, helps explain the chaos that has eclipsed the Defense Department in recent weeks. And it affirms skeptics’ concerns that Hegseth lacked the management experience to run a large organization. “There’s just a lot of tension, there’s a lot of bad blood,” said a person with knowledge of the feud. “And there’s a lot of people trying to assert dominance in an area where it’s very hard to do without cutting somebody else.”
The infighting became so ugly that Hegseth suspected the recent leaks to the media were an orchestrated attempt by his senior staff to make their rivals look bad, according to someone close to him, efforts that cast the secretary and his department in a negative light. At the center was Joe Kasper, Hegseth’s departing chief of staff, who people familiar with the matter said created a toxic workplace culture and played an instrumental role last week in pushing out three top Pentagon officials. Those firings, they said, were an attempt to consolidate power. Kasper denied inappropriate behavior or having anything to do with the dismissals.
On the other side were the fired employees, trusted Hegseth allies. Those staffers — senior adviser Dan Caldwell, deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, chief of staff to the deputy Defense secretary — were considered Hegseth’s closest advisers and maintain their innocence. “We had people who had personal vendettas against us,” Caldwell told Tucker Carlson in an interview Monday night. “They weaponized the investigation against us.”
Kasper argued in an interview that he was doing what he was ordered to do by Hegseth: start an investigation into recent leaks. The Pentagon denied a clash of personalities but otherwise declined to comment.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/pentagon-infighting-hegseth-fired-officials-00302709
Comment: While Rubio is busy remaking his department with minimal fanfare and fuss, Hegseth is producing a telenovela at the Pentagon. And that’s not all. He’s installing a makeup studio for himself in the Pentagon. Doesn’t that just scream warrior ethos?
TTG
Vance can stop by Heg’s makeup studio for his eyeliner!
Never in my life I would imagine the US SecDef has a makeup studio in his Pentagon office. What a clown show!
Hey Tony –
Trump uses make up so why can’t Kegseth? He needs that Maybelline foundation to cover those alcoholic spider veins on his face and the broken capillaries on his nose. Expertly applied I might add. Can we get DOGE to investigate how much salary he’s paying his professional make up artistes.
Leith,
Trump doesn’t drink. There is 0 evidence that he has ever consumed alcohol.
You guys, of the party that loves transvestites and assorted similar freaks, seem to me to be awfully hung up on the make up thing. You do know that every public personality with a face on a screen, has had make up applied, right? Every. Single. One.
Eric, yes, even football broadcasters get their nose powdered and their hair sprayed. And previous SecDefs may or may not have had the same done by someone working for a TV camera crew. But none of them ever had their own personal make up studio and hired professional artistes at taxpayer expense. I’m not hung up on make-up, but your new pentagon honcho definitely is. Hung up on appearance over substance that is. And judging by a phony face tan & hair weave so is your president.
PS – I never implied Trump was a drunk, I was speaking of Pete WhiskeyLeaks, the TripleSec of Defense. You remember, the guy who thinks OpSec is a cocktail drink.
Leith,
I don’t believe you when you say you’re not hung up on make up. You have been slurring Vance, as “eye liner boy”, for months.
Who knows – or for that matter cares – if Hegseth has a room dedicated to his grooms? Who knows what his predecessors’ arrangements were?
I forgot to mention your presidents shoe lifts and girdle Eric along with the face paint and hair weave. Trump is an empty vessel, all sizzle and no steak. Or as the Texas cowboys say sombrero grande pero no vacas”.
All this was essentially predicted by a lot of people when Hegseth was nominated, so nobody should be surprised. Now the question will be how much damage will be tolerated by the military. They don’t like disorder and that is what the have been getting. Ultimately, it is up to Trump to fix the problem, since he created it, among others.
Lars,
Exactly correct. Deep state sabotage was expected.
“how much damage will be tolerated by the military”
How many officers are resigning, or like one of the Vindman’s retiring, to run for office and change things? Or do you imply something other than becoming politically active after service ends?
Dan Caldwell gave his view on why he was dismissed in this 90-minute podcast with Tucker Carlson:
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-shown-dan-caldwell
Politico summarized it here:
“Fired Pentagon adviser says he threatened ‘established interests’ ”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/21/fired-pentagon-adviser-threatened-established-interests-00302336
Keith Harbaugh,
Caldwell worked for Hegseth, so is Hegseth part of those established interests? How about Kasper? This looks like a MAGA family fight, not a deep state conspiracy.
TTG….these are all handpicked Trumpites doing the fighting.
Fred calling it “Deep State”? lol
No, it is rather the “Deep Shit” Trump set up in DOD!
Al,
Caldwell was in the marines from 2005 until going to ASU, which he graduated from in 2011. He then worked for an AZ congressman, David Schweikert, for two years then at a “non profit”.
“Caldwell began working for Concerned Veterans for America in 2013. In 2017, Caldwell was named Executive Director of Concerned Veterans for America.[5]” wiki
” Dan joined Concerned Veterans for America in 2013 and has played a major role in the group’s legislative success.”
Joined after serving two years with an AZ congressmen in a political job
https://cv4a.org/news-media/cva-names-dan-caldwell-new-executive-director/
Sounds like your typical Machiavellian political hack in the making. I met a couple democrats like him when I was involved in Michigan democratic party politics. Is Schweikert a neocon? I would not be surprised.
Fred,
Schweikert doesn’t sound like a neocon. Like Trump, he wanted out of Syria, hated Obama’s Iran deal and thinks Obamacare is wasteful. He supports RFK and Trump’s tariffs. But he did support Ukraine. Don’t know if he still does or has come around to Trump’s line of thinking.
Well, Fred, looks like you were not to be “surprised”.
Al/Fred –
Don’t be fooled by the name of Caldwell’s cv4a group, the so-called ‘Concerned Veterans for America’. They are a political lobbying firm trying to shift military retirement pay to Wall Street, guess how much of a commission the Wall St Wolves will be raking off. They also want to privatize the VA because their oligarch sponsors seem to need a piece of that health money pie. VFW, DAV, American Legion, Fleet Reserve Association, and other veterans rights groups all oppose the cv4a agenda because of its proposals that are contrary to the wants and needs of the veteran community.
cv4a was originally founded by conservative billionaire megadonors, the Koch brothers. According to the American Legion: “They’re not a veterans organization. They’re using veterans issues as a tool to push a political agenda.”
They are a stealth wrecking bar trying to demolish the VA and other veteran benefits for the benefit of the Koch network and other multi-billionaire broligarchs.
leith:
Take a look at the stated policy priorities of the CV4A:
https://cv4a.org/2025-policy-priorities/
What I see is a desire to stop America from engaging in one action after the other in the Middle East,
which rather transparently are for the benefit of (gasp) Israel.
Do you disagree?
As a sad example, why on earth did the U.S. act to undermine the Bashar Assad regime?
Sure, it is possible to criticize it.
But consider the alternative.
As to what is going on in Israel, consider this from Phil Giraldi:
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-suppression-of-christianity-in-its-birthplace/
It’s funny, Some people freak out if the Koch brothers’ name is invoked – and then tailspin into deep conspiracy land. Same people think Soros is just a kindly old philanthropist who is unfairly maligned by crazy right-wing conspiracy theories.
Some people put their trust in the government and are utterly fearful of, and hostile towards, the private sector. Some people are the exact opposite. It’s like neither camp can process that corruption and evil people exist across the board and in all camps. Show them evidence of that fact and they will reject the evidence against their preferred camp being virtuous.
People are irrational and arrive at their opinions and beliefs emotionally.
Leith,
“They are a political lobbying firm…”
I agree, and so is AARP.
” shift military retirement pay to Wall Street, guess how much of a commission the Wall St Wolves will be raking off.”
That doesn’t appear on their website, but it would be fun to see how they figure “Wall Street” is going to be issuing paychecks on behalf of the USG. Sounds like you never invested in a 401k.
Fred,
Back in 2015 the CVA stated they wanted to convert the VA into an “independent, government-chartered nonprofit corporation.” They’ve pushed legislation to do just that ever since. Besides that statement back in 2015, they’re pretty cagy about calling it privatizing the VA.
I don’t see see the VA(or Social Security) as a government institution. I see it as a commitment. The mechanisms for fulfilling that commitment are open for discussion, but ultimately the critical factor is trust. I may not trust the government to do things efficiently, but I do trust them to be there. Wall street? IBGYBG.
Pilgrims……..I am Stuck on the Constant use of the Expression
Deep State. To Describe The Guts. Of any
.. administration…Democrat or Republican..
in the Executive Branch of The Federal…Government
That Term must Have Been Thought Up..To Describe Nothing
Really……..by someone sitting at a round table and got a Bonus.for
Yelling
“DEEP STATE..”
JIM
To This Forum,,I Want To Carry This Idea..of Why..Someone
Said..Out Loud….”Deep State”……That then Was The WORD
How Ever..Panel, Consider This….That He WAS being Honest
and meant…The Problem WAS and Historically Has Been
Since..The Beginning Of The United States,,,Government..
And The Most Recent Example..Is The Obama, Clinton..
PARTNERSHIP…
Example..Hillary..Libya..Did What ever the Boss Wanted..
But Went Typical Democrat…And Made The Deals..In
Partnership….With Her Husband..William,, Jefferson..Clinton.
JIM
“Deep State” Jim,
Perhaps Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy is more appropriate. Or the modern phrase “career professional”. Just as a variety of Roman Emperors had to deal with long ago. Occasionally they would fire the lot and replace them en masse. The Iron Law took over and an emperor or two later…..
Ok..TTG…Complicated Package that..Lets ust Do the Right Thing
And Call It,,,,…………PILB….
JIM
he’s an tightly wound insecure dude. he’s paranoid, needs his wife w/ him at work, must be accompanied by close friends wherever he goes – the profile goes on. he’s not cut out for the job… he knows it & so does everyone else. it’s obvious Nasty wants him running the DoD for precisely these traits. the question really is; why wasn’t there someone near, who cares for him, to guide him away from taking a job he’s completely unsuited for?
Yes Ked…Petes a Warrior..Thats Why I Got Picked By Fox News..
Maybe Gutfeld Ran into Him…..Pete Should Get a High Level Job
In The Pentagon…. Fighting For ALL SF Warriors ………
JIM
IMO, Hegseth was put in the position to increase troop morale, repair recruitment levels (which collapsed under Biden) and to make the military more effective/more lethal – all at the boots on the ground level. Part of that mission involves elimination of DEI/woke and associated lower standards and other political crap. He seems to be doing fairly well in that regard, though it’s too early to call his efforts a success.
I thought that Hegseth was not qualified to run a large bureaucracy when his name was announced. That experience is just not in his background. It’s not something you can learn on the job; not at that level. I thought there had to be better choices. Once he was confirmed, I was hoping that he’d be properly supported by people with the necessary organizational skills to compensate for his skill gaps. It seems that there is still work to do to find the right staff.
There is a lot of money and a lot of ideology trying to influence the office of Sec Def. Caldwell seems to me to be just another political hack working an angle. No big loss. He’s a small fry. The problem is that if positions are filled with old experienced hands, then you get the deep state moles and treachery. If you select people with no government experience, then they don’t know how to navigate the intensely political, bureaucratic and bizarre culture of Washington. There’s going to have to be frequent shaking the box until the right mix of people is attained. Of course, the liberal media and pundits will use that assail Trump – as if the way things were in previous administrations was just fine. It’s easy to be a critic and easier still when you’re paid to criticize.
Eric Newhill…….You Prove You Are a TROLL…Every Time You
Write Your Stuff Up Here.. I know Colonel Lang..Would Have
Been On You Long Ago..Calling You TRoll..I Suspect..And
He Would Shame The Trolls..Expose Them.. Where They Were..
Foreign…Or Domestic..Any Data He Had on Them..Then Kick Them
Out of Our Forum..and Block Them From Ever coming Back..
But..I Suspect TTG Has His Reasons For keeping you around…
JIM
Well said
Lauren Boebart proclaiming, when Fang doorsteps her in D.C., that “There are only two nations built to honor God: Israel and the U.S.A.,” or Ralph Drollinger, who ran the weekly White House Bible Study Group during the Trump administration, claiming the times are currently “alive with demonic powers once hidden.” Fang gets clarification on what those demons are, exactly: “The homosexual movement, the transgender [sic] back in our military, the abortion issue.” But a crusade against progressive social ideals is to be expected from the extreme Christian right. (“Crusade” being a good example of a term that before might have been merely a colorful euphemism, but after “Praying For Armageddon” starts to be suspicious, a potential fundamentalist dogwhistle embedded in plain sight.) What is so much more frightening is how insidiously they are influencing geopolitics, specifically as it pertains to Israel, in order to create the conditions that favor Armageddon (predicted to occur on a large wide plain near Meggido, in the north of the country). Recent developments, such as Trump’s installation of a U.S. military base in Israel, are implied to be part of this master plan, and have certainly escalated tensions in the region. Footage of devastating airstrikes on Palestinian civilian dwellings proves that when you believe your mission is divine, you have no need to be humane.
Televangelist Pastor Robert Jeffress, a regular pundit for Fox News and head of one the nation’s largest parachurches, is one of Fang’s most fascinating interviews, mostly because of the serene, avuncular manner in which he assures us that “the end of the world is nothing to fear.” For those us averse to the idea, however, “Praying for Armageddon” is a compelling, sobering Revelation all its own, revealing the hitherto unimagined scale of a type of political insanity that would entrust the future to people who don’t want there to be a future at all.
Veterans and Reservists Rally to End Gaza Conflict When veterans from the air force went out in open protest, Israel’s military struck back and kicked them out. Now, thousands more reservists, veterans, and civilians are demanding that the war in Gaza come to an end. The military leadership is facing a dilemma, according to Eran Duvdevani, who got 2,500 former paratroopers to sign a protest letter:
If they continue to dismiss the pilots, how will it be with all the others who signed the letters? Should they also be dismissed from service?
Extreme influence Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which stands and falls with ultra-nationalist support parties, is reported to have tightened an ideological grip on a military that has long served as a unifying force in Israeli society.
About 40 percent of all newly graduated officers come from orthodox and nationalist minority groups, says military historian Yoram Peri to The New Yorker.
Netanyahu’s reshuffles in the military leadership follow the same pattern, according to Peri:
A professional, secular army is not their goal. Nor is a secular democratic society.
“It’s crystal clear that the renewal of the war is for political reasons and not for security reasons,” Guy Poran, a retired pilot who was one of the initiators of the air force letter, told The Associated Press.
NEVER let an end-timer near a Minuteman missile silo control room. “when God’s on your side, you get to believe anything.”
Interesting story about Ronald Reagan and Lieutenant Commander Bennie Davis of Strategic Air Command.
General Bennie Luke Davis.
Reagan did get “Star wars” and did defeat “Soviet Union”
Congress did pass bill to launch our nuclear weapons for no reason whatsoever. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Police got call to attached garage for nuclear missile and found nuclear missile. But declared it completely safe. As the nuclear warhead had been sold on eBay and someone drank all the rocket fuel.
Public Service Announcement.
If while going through Grandpas old stuff you find live grenade Please Please do not hand it to young child. I know they want to play with it. Please Please do not give it to them.
Put The live grenade in brown paper bag and leave it at Police Station.
Let the professionals play with it.
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2008-08/air-force-leaders-fired-over-nuke-handling
Your trolling is terrible. Reality provides better material
On 29 August 2007, six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52H heavy bomber at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and transported to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The nuclear warheads in the missiles were supposed to have been removed before the missiles were taken from their storage bunker. The missiles with the nuclear warheads were not reported missing and remained mounted to the aircraft at both Minot and Barksdale for 36 hours. During this period, the warheads were not protected by the various mandatory security precautions for nuclear weapons.
The incident was the first of its kind in forty years in the United States and was later described by the media as “one of the worst breaches in U.S. nuclear weapons security in decades”
I thought a General wanted a nuclear weapon in his garage.
.https://apnews.com/article/rocket-found-garage-bellevue-washington-8ff6c9d92b59a264d8a99059e3c65faa
BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — An inert rocket of the type used to carry a nuclear warhead has been found in the garage of a home of a deceased resident in Washington state, police said.
Lauren Boebart was in school then. Still trolling
Tim (not his real name) is a former associate of White’s and now a rival. Tim, White, and Czuba were once members of an organization called Maxworks Coop, which united a number of leftist causes under a single roof on Maxwell Street. But for a number of reasons, Tim and a group of others evicted another group that included Czuba and White. Now White lives in the building across the street from the Maxworks Coop building, but the other day he went in to fetch some mail that came for him to that address. And that’s what Tim is so pissed off about.
“You took the mail that was addressed to our address, my man,” Tim snarls, his face a couple of inches away from White’s.
White explains in a calm, measured tone of voice that for some reason the post office continues to send his mail to that address, though he’s tried to get that changed, and he’s just picking up his own mail. “And no one in your building is interested in the kind of mail we get anyway,” he adds.
“That still doesn’t give you the right to enter our property,” Tim says, getting hotter. “You have a problem, then you deal with the post office.”
“You’re dogging a major attitude,” says White.
“I’m dogging a major attitude?”
“What is your program there that excludes us? And how do you justify such a program?”
“I don’t need to justify such a program.”
“Well, if you don’t need to justify it, that explains your whole attitude,” White scoffs.
“You’ve engaged in a criminal trespass against our premises,” Tim bellows.
“Oh Tim, you’re not even an owner,” Czuba interjects angrily, adding a feisty “You’re so full of shit.”
“His name is not on the 1988 deed,” White remarks. “My name is on the 1988 deed.”
“I’ll go for your fucking throat,” Tim snaps, pointing a finger at Czuba. “You should rot in hell for all of your perversions.”
“Come on, Tim,” Czuba says as White holds him back. “Come on, do something to me. You don’t own the building. Come on, do something to me.”
“Now let’s not fight,” White says to Czuba as Czuba points a finger back at Tim. “No physical.”
“You have nothing to say,” Czuba shouts at Tim.
“No physical. No fingers. No fingers, Joe,” White pleads.
“I have plenty to say about it,” Tim shouts.
“No fingers, no physical,” White says to Czuba. “Remember that ‘you’ and ‘always’ are two words that negotiators should never use.”
The argument goes on for a bit more, mostly between Czuba and Tim, and then Tim stalks off. A moment later he returns, saying “If I see any of you in that building, you can figure you’ll wake up in a hospital tomorrow.”
“Did you hear that?” White exclaims, knowing I have tape-recorded Tim’s threat. “Wake up in a hospital? We got him!”
Czuba spits in Tim’s direction.
“We got him,” White repeats.
Czuba spits again and White takes him aside. “Now let’s not do anything that’s characteristic of him rather than us,” he says. “Our job is to collect the evidence.”
“He threw all of the nonsmokers out of the building,” Czuba explains. “All the smokers got together and threw all the nonsmokers out. He isn’t even in the building anymore.”
“He spends all his days in the subway serenading commuters with his Autoharp,” White says sarcastically.
The exchange between White, Czuba, and Tim is typical of the kind of factionalism that has arisen in this Maxwell Street community. A rift has developed between those who are concentrating on recycling products and those who favor more violent social upheaval. The split also seems to have gone down between those who smoke and those who do not.
“The smokers are longtime guerrilla troops in a kind of left-wing cause,” says White. “In 1984, [Tim’s] roommate arranged to have blood thrown under the feet of some ROTC marchers. That’s typical of the kind of tricks they do. They’re supposedly in favor of the people being liberated in El Salvador or Cambodia. That’s the tradition this guy comes from. Now, he has become progreen. He was disgruntled by our ideas of using scrap lumber to dislodge new lumber from the market. He thought we were going to get him in trouble because we had a disorderly recycling center. He thought we would threaten the survival of his guerrilla movement, and he couldn’t stand to have our reformist approach conflict with his paramilitary attitude. He claims he was a Trotskyite at age 17. But he’s graduated to Stalinist practices.”
It wasn’t always this tense, as White recalls. At one point the opposing factions were able to live in relative harmony because they had a leader who was able to unify them: according to White she was an independently wealthy person who dreamt of getting an army together and overthrowing the government. “She was tempted by that sort of romance,” he says. But she moved to Oregon and had a baby, leaving them leaderless.
“There was another woman who could have united us,” White says wistfully. “She also had a baby, but she made the decision to live around here. But in August of 1980 she got in a van with a friend of ours named Preacher John. They were driving on U.S. 30 to Plainfield, Illinois, and as they were driving, the vehicles in front of them flew off the road and he tried to get to the side, but she was sucked out of the vehicle and was killed instantly. The baby landed on the yellow line and somehow survived.”
After that the friction between the smokers and the nonsmokers, between the revolutionaries and the reformists, grew to the point where it became unbearable. One of the revolutionaries wrote a “14-page double-spaced letter accusing Joe and myself of sexual perversions,” White said. “He accused Joe of raping him.”
After the smokers evicted Czuba, White, and some others, White says, “they got a box of champagne to celebrate their triumph because they’d kicked out those environmentalists, those pack rats, those hoarders.”
The old Maxworks building is now inhabited by only one person, a man who has so frightened all the people who used to live there that even Tim has found other lodgings.
“This is the kind of thing that happens to left-wing groups and organizations,” White remarks. “A faction like this forms. Before, we had all this loft space. We were able to offer anybody a place to stay. Now, no one’s welcome.
THE PRESIDENT: No, nothing is excluded. But one of the reasons for going at the ballistic missile – that is the one that is the most destabilizing. That one’s the one that is the most frightening to most people. And let me just give you a little reasoning on that – of my own on that score.
That is the missile sitting there in its silo in which there could be the possibility of miscalculation. That is the one that people know that once that button is pushed, there is no defense; there is no recall. And it’s a matter of minutes, and the missiles reach the other country.
Those that are carried in bombers, those that are carried in ships of one kind or another, or submersibles, you are dealing there with a conventional type of weapon or instrument, and those instruments can be intercepted. They can be recalled if there has been a miscalculation. And so they don’t have the same, I think, psychological effect that the presence of those other ones that, once launched, that’s it; they’re on their way, and there’s no preventing, no stopping them.
Walter F. Mondale questioned President Reagan’s understanding of nuclear weapons, stating that Mr. Reagan had incorrectly asserted that ”submarine ballistic missiles are recallable” and that the President seemed unaware that the missiles carry nuclear warheads rather than conventional arms. The Mondale staff said later that Mr. Mondale was referring to a statement made by Mr. Reagan at news conference on May 13, 1982.
practiced launch on warning so often that we could perform the procedures by heart, reflexively launching scores of missiles within one to two minutes after receiving the order.
Launch on warning is the antithesis of a deliberative process. It involves enacting by rote a prepared script that permits scant human deliberation or judgment. This applies to every level of the chain of command, including the Pentagon and Strategic Command war rooms, which have one minute to brief the president, who has roughly six minutes to decide whether and how to respond. Launch on warning turns humans into virtual automatons. Human reasoning is reduced to decision heuristics.
But despite being driven by checklists, launch on warning still involves a tricky interplay of human and technical parts that must mesh smoothly and perform without error under impossibly short deadlines. Small mistakes can be disastrous, and not just at the apex of command. The entry of a single wrong digit by a launch crew could switch war plans and spell the difference between striking remote missiles in Siberia and destroying Moscow and other cities.
At the presidential level, launch on warning invites hasty miscalculation under the most pressurized circumstances imaginable. President Reagan was appalled by the time pressure. (He said he had six minutes to decide.)
The risks of accidental nuclear war or an injudicious prompt launch that escalates to full-scale nuclear exchange are so obvious and unnerving that the Pentagon went to great lengths during the Cold War to keep the American public in the dark about US plans to launch on warning. It buried under layers of secrecy the deep misgivings of presidents and other senior officials, the numerous false alarms of enemy attack experienced (on both sides), and the panic and confusion that ensued within the command and control and early warning hubs during these incidents. (Early warning crews cancelled the alarms after eight minutes in the two scariest episodes, a delay over the requisite three minutes designated in the launch on warning protocol that was deemed so egregious it got them fired on the spot.)
Time has come to launch Blessed Operation Baklava …probably 4/5/25
Dr. Strangelove
Or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
Sterling Hayden as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper,
Water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth’s surface is water. Why do you realize that 70% of you is water? And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water – to replinish our precious bodily fluids.
Floridation is the most monstrously concieved and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
Today, war is to important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all our precious bodily fluids.
Peter Sellers as Merkin Muffley, the President of the United States
I was the only one in authority to order the use of nuclear weapons.
George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Ripper exceeded his authority.
Here you go henry.a ripper for a tripper
Dylan played the Colosseum
Heard the lions roar
It was a soulful requiem
The crowd shouted for more
The Gladiators sang along
With the Grateful Dead
Just a simple song
That quickly spread
With love on your side
Your prayers may be heard
In your heart peace will reside
Just spread the word
To never forget about
Human life’s sanctity
Have no doubt
Never forget your humanity
Mcohen…Its Nice to Read You Up here Again..I Like Your Poem.
I Always have,,,Im a Poet Too…I Have Created a Fairly Large Book
Of Poems…Unpublished ..over The Years Since I Was 16..I Save EVERY Poem
I Had Written..Until 5 years ago…Colonel Lang Published Some Pieces..
about 9/11 and About The Fourth of July. Poems Patrick Lang Liked
I Was Surprised To See henry buehler is exposing himself.. the more
he writes..Ive seen enough in what he just wrote..that he reminds me
of writing Like of Eric….Hmm
JIM
Henry. You Are a Good Person being Added to this Forum Thank You..(TTG)
You Made Made Me Laugh and The Thought Of The Great Peter Sellers &
Merkin Muffley….As POTUS & VP…Good One..
JIM
I gave $200,000 to Oklahoma state university for study of Bdellovibrio
I can’t pronounce it. I wanted for there to be a way to treat disease.
Phage therapy was rediscovered.
The Pathogen Predators program focuses on force readiness and homeland protection through development of novel countermeasures against biological threats involving bacterial agents. Currently, the most common defense against such a threat is traditional antibiotics, but while such antibiotics have been remarkably effective in the past, their widespread use has heightened the risk of our troops contracting antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections that are difficult or impossible to treat. A new type of countermeasure is needed to overcome the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Pathogen Predators aims to develop a new class of dynamic therapeutics that use live, motile, predatory bacteria that prey upon other Gram-negative bacteria that are pathogenic to humans. Previous in vitro studies have shown that predators such as Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and Micavibrio aeruginosavorus prey upon more than 100 different human pathogens, including several that are multi-drug resistant. These results suggest that it is possible to develop a predator-based therapeutic with efficacy against a broad spectrum of Gram-negative pathogens, including those that are resistant to antibiotics.
The Pathogen Predators program seeks to establish the technical feasibility of such an approach for use in humans. The program supports fundamental research aimed at developing a molecular-level understanding of predator-prey interactions as well as studies using in vivo infectious disease models. Specifically, Pathogen Predators seeks to determine if predators are toxic to recipient (host) organisms; against what pathogens (prey) predators are effective; and if pathogens can develop resistance to predation over time.
If successful, Pathogen Predators will lay the groundwork for a living, predator-based therapeutic that is safe and efficacious against a large number of infectious diseases, including those that are resistant to conventional treatments. Future advances in this area may be also applied to a range of biological technologies including the autonomous control of epidemics.
We are not fighting the planet. I am not moving into outerspace. We are altering the earth.
bioshelter, Arcology, Bionic architecture, Old Man River’s City project,
Paolo Soleri proposed later solutions, and coined the term “arcology”. Soleri describes ways of compacting city structures in three dimensions to combat two-dimensional urban sprawl, to economize on transportation and other energy uses. Like Wright, Soleri proposed changes in transportation, agriculture, and commerce.
Crystal Island (building project)
The tent-like superstructure would rise to 450 m, and form a breathable “second skin” and thermal buffer for the main building, shielding the interior spaces from Moscow’s weather. This section skin will be sealed in winter to minimize heat loss, and opened in the summer to naturally cool the interior. The building would be integrated into a new park, which would provide a range of activities throughout the year, with cross-country skiing and ice skating in the winter.
It is stated to have a multitude of cultural, exhibition, performance, hotel, apartment, retail, and office space, as well as an international school for 500 students. The building would be powered by built-in solar panels and wind turbines. The structure would also feature on-site renewable and low-carbon energy generation.
To build a micro climate, Is there any alternative?
Slope-Aspect Induced Climate Differences Influence How Water Is Exchanged Between the Land and Atmosphere
The Basilica Cistern, or Cisterna Basilica (Greek: Βασιλική Κινστέρνα, Turkish: Yerebatan Sarnıcı or Yerebatan Sarayı, “Subterranean Cistern” or “Subterranean Palace”), is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey.
Ancient texts indicated that the basilica cistern contained gardens surrounded by a colonnade that faced the Hagia Sophia. According to ancient historians, Emperor Constantine built a structure that was later reconstructed and enlarged by Emperor Justinian after the Nika riots of 532, which devastated the city.
This cathedral-size cistern is an underground chamber approximately 138 metres (453 ft) by 65 metres (213 ft) – about 9,800 square metres (105,000 sq ft) in area – capable of holding 80,000 cubic metres (2,800,000 cu ft) of water. The ceiling is supported by a forest of 336 marble columns, each 9 metres (30 ft) high, arranged in 12 rows of 28 columns each spaced 5 metres (16 ft) apart.
Babylon was an ancient , within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (53 miles) south of modern-day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia. Its rulers established two important empires in antiquity, the 19th–16th century BC Old Babylonian Empire, and the 7th–6th century BC Neo-Babylonian Empire. Babylon was also used as a regional capital of other empires, such as the Achaemenid Empire. Babylon was one of the most important urban centres of the ancient Near East,
According to one legend, the Hanging Gardens were built alongside a grand palace known as The Marvel of Mankind, by the Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II (who ruled between 605 and 562 BC),
Under Ancient Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great , Babylon again flourished as a center of learning and commerce. , untill Alexander’s death in 323 BC