This is pretty significant.
Archive for the ‘History’ Category
Maneuver Conference Theme
Thursday, September 1st, 2016Welcome to the Layer Cake
Thursday, August 25th, 2016
This is how NATO planned to hold back the Soviet horde circa 1980s. Dubbed the “Layer Cake” defense, it relied upon full NATO commitment with the Americans doing some heavy lifting in the Central Army Group which expected to see the heaviest Warsaw Pact thrusts. You’ll also notice the lack of a French commitment.
TR On Sacrifice
Wednesday, August 24th, 2016
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
Theodore Roosevelt
President, Soldier, Naturalist, Adventurer
From a speech in Des Moines, Iowa
November 4th, 1910
Early TEMPEST Phone From NSA Museum
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016This large, rotary phone was a prototype for a TEMPESTed telephone. TEMPEST is a cover name that is now used throughout the government and industry to refer to frequency emanations leaking from electronic devices as they are used. Even back in World War II, the U.S. Army was warned about a teletype mixer that emitted signals each time the machine stepped. The signals could be intercepted 100 or more feet away revealing the plaintext message.
This early prototype TEMPESTed telephone was mounted on a plaque and presented to Lowell Frazer in 1985, presumably upon his retirement. Frazer was a communications security mathematician whose leadership spurred government and industry interaction in the development of TEMPEST equipment. He also ensured that TEMPEST concerns were part of the cryptographic evaluation process.
To learn a little about TEMPEST history, read “TEMPEST: A Signal Problem”.
The First Eagle Scout
Monday, August 22nd, 2016104 years ago today, Arthur Rose Eldred became the first Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.
In the century that followed, over two million young men have earned the award.
Today is National Airborne Day
Tuesday, August 16th, 2016Just thought all of the legs out there should know.
Carry on, that is all.
The 7 Essential Elements Of An Effective Military Force
Sunday, August 14th, 2016
Canadian Lt General Stanley C Waters served as a Major in the famed combined USA/Canada First Special Service Force.
He related:
“there are seven essential elements in the make-up of any effective military force. I will list them in what I believe to be proper order: Leaders, Men, Discipline, Training, Physical Fitness, Morale, and Equipment (although it could be argued that the first six are of equal importance and only equipment may be of lesser importance.)
“You will recognize let the Force excelled in all elements which particular on Men, Physical Fitness, and Morale. In my later experience, if I was asked to compare the Force with other first class troops I served with or commanded, I would always single out the quality of the men, their superb strength and endurance plus their indomitable spirit and high morale. We would have been a formidable force equipped only with clubs.”
Fortunatley, the Force was equipped with RS explosives, M1911A1 pistols, M1A1 carbines, M1 Garands, M1941 Johnson LMGs, and V-42 Knives.
Photo: www.firstspecialserviceforce.net
When USAF Tigerstripes Were Cool
Sunday, August 14th, 2016
