Ed Jewett Wrote:[size=12]I think this whole tale is ripe pickins for the DPF crowd.

I'm still largely an untried and unvetted newbie in this bidness, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this whole long tale smells like a very well put-together, very subtle bit of disinformation.

There is an awful lot of what she alleges and says that seems coherent and consistent with what is known (gosh, I hope I don't start sounding like Donald Rumsfeld here), but I just have this little gnawing sense in my gut that something is wrong.

This stems in part on the basis of who, in the outer world and in other discussion forums, advances the case and keeps drawing attention to it, as if there is something there that they want us to pick up on, drive, or believe.

It makes for some very intriguing stuff... which makes it somehow even more suspect.

My sense is that the real accurate deep stuff is more plain and less Hollywood.

I think also, speaking as a newbie and from a bit more distance than the more experienced folks here, that the art of this science (or the science of the art) from their perspective keeps evolving; they keep learning ( we've already seen that they have 'lessons learned' meetings and are students of deep strategy e.g. the OODA loop), and they keep tightening their internal feedback loop.

So I leave it to you all to say 'there, there, Ed... you have it wrong, and here's why'; otherwise, I'm still in the watching-and-waiting queue.
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