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:Nations
must
define
the
red
lines
with
Russia
unian.info
Zelensky
Office
chief's
advisor
names
goal
of
Russia's
military
build-
up
along
Ukraine
borders
19
April
2021|
Reuters:
Russian
Military
Numbers
More
Than
150,000
Troops
13
April
2021
|Daily
Sabah
News
(Source:
Reuters)
:Russia
Warns
Black
Sea
Bound
U.S.
Warships
To
Stay
Away
from
Crimea
14
April
2021|
The
Moscow
Times:
Russian
Warships
Stage
Black
Sea
Drills
Ahead
of
US
Arrivals
15
April
2021
|By
Natasha
Bertrand
and
Lara
Seligman,
Politico:
U.S.
drops
plans
to
send
destroyers
into
the
Black
Sea
due
to
concerns
over
Russia
MIT|
15
April
2021:
Switch
CRISPR
Gene
Editing
Constantin Bratianu (Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies) and Ettore Bolisani (University of Padova) write:
"In a highly predictable environment, knowledge strategy can be seen as a rational approach, where knowledge resources and the processes to achieve and manage them can be set and planned in advance."
Knowledge
Strategy
As
A
Rational
Approach
4 April 2021
On Nov 8, 2017, Tim Powell in the Knowledge Value Chain's website "knowledgevaluechain.com" wrote about knowledge strategy.
Tim Powell writes:
"As you know if you are a regular visitor here, I serve on the faculty of a graduate program called Information and Knowledge Strategy at Columbia University."
Mr. Powell addresses:
"It’s exciting, with world-class faculty and talented students — with the added energy that we feel that, together, we are forging a new field of study."
Source:
What
is
knowledge
strategy?
The author explains:
"...What is Knowledge Strategy (KS), as opposed Knowledge Tactics?
The writer states:
"The skill sets and techniques of knowledge strategists usually include tactical components — building online Communities of Practice, building SharePoint sites, designing and building and curating best practices and lessons learned databases, and so on."
Source:
What
is
knowledge
strategy?
Tim Powell addresses:
"But those are components, not the essence of KS. I’ll offer a working definition:
Knowledge Strategy is the practice of developing and deploying enterprise knowledge and its component assets as essential and integral resources in competitive business strategy.
KS means, simply, actively recognizing and using knowledge as a strategic resource and a direct bridge to competitive advantage.
Source:
What
is
knowledge
strategy?
Tim Powell explains:
"In other words, knowledge strategy should not be developed separately from a competitive business strategy."
The author points out:
"The two should be developed and implemented in close coordination, as shown in the Strategic Knowledge Architecture diagram at left — and should both respond to the value model defined by by the overall purpose and mission of the enterprise."
The writer addresses:
"Professor Michael Zack, in his thoughtful paper “Developing a Knowledge Strategy,”agrees in saying,
“the most important context for guiding knowledge management is the firm’s strategy.”
Mr. Powell explains:
"Though this may seem obvious, Zack then notes the irony that “the link between knowledge management and business strategy, while often talked about, has been widely ignored in practice.”(Emphasis added.)"
Source:
What
is
knowledge
strategy?
Tim Powell addresses:
"Nor are knowledge strategies confined to companies."
The author explains:
"Governments can, and often do, lead the way in knowledge strategy. Consider this recent headline:
“Behind North Korea’s Nuclear Advance:
Scientists Who Bring Technology Home.” After years of relying on other countries (first the Soviet Union, later Iran and Pakistan), North Korea is now able to develop its own nuclear scientists."
Many of these scientists study in China, sometimes gaining knowledge that is banned under UN sanctions."
Source:
What
is
knowledge
strategy?
In the 16th European Conference on Knowledge Management, University of Udine, Italy, 3-4 September 2015, Constantin Bratianu and Ettore Bolisani predented their article entitled "Knowledge Strategy: An Integrated Approach for Managing Uncertainty" published in Researchgate Net "researchgate.net".
Source:
September
2015:
:Knowledge
Strategy:
An
Integrated
Approach
for
Managing
Uncertainty
Constantin Bratianu (Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies) and Ettore Bolisani (University of Padova) write:
"Knowledge strategy is a new semantic construct that reflects the integration process of Knowledge Management and Strategic Management."
The authors explain:
"It is a construct aiming at creating new value by considering knowledge as a strategic resource in managerial decision making."
The writer address:
"The way knowledge strategy and its planning can be seen is affected by the consideration of uncertainty and environmental turbulence."
Source:
September
2015:
:Knowledge
Strategy:
An
Integrated
Approach
for
Managing
Uncertainty
Bratianu and Bolisani explain:
"In a highly predictable environment, knowledge strategy can be seen as a rational approach, where knowledge resources and the processes to achieve and manage them can be set and planned in advance."
"However," the authors add, "in a turbulent business environment and continuous struggle for achieving a competitive advantage, strategic thinking and planning implies different approaches."
Source:
September
2015:
:Knowledge
Strategy:
An
Integrated
Approach
for
Managing
Uncertainty
The writers point out:
"Strategic thinking and organizational knowledge integrated in a powerful vision can help managers and business leaders in defining a spectrum of possible futures and transforming some of them into probable and desirable futures."
Then," the authors write, "choosing one of these desirable futures managers work out knowledge strategies to achieve some strategic objectives."
Bratianu and Bolisani explain:
"The purpose of this paper is to reflect on these issues and to provide an updated survey of strategy thinking by presenting knowledge strategies as an integrated approach to manage uncertainty and to create desirable futures in business environments."
Source:
September
2015:
:Knowledge
Strategy:
An
Integrated
Approach
for
Managing
Uncertainty
The authors address:
"Our research questions are the following:
a) What is the definition of knowledge strategy, and how can this term be related to the more general issue of strategic thinking and strategic planning in organizations?
b) What are limitations of a rational approach to knowledge strategy in turbulent environments and under uncertainty?
c) What are the models that can be applied to formulate knowledge strategies based on a consideration of uncertainty and knowledge dynamics?
Bratianu and Bolisani state:
"For dealing with these questions we based our approach on an extensive search and analysis of the existing literature in both fields of knowledge management and strategic management, and on conceptual modeling of knowledge strategies."
Source:
September
2015:
:Knowledge
Strategy:
An
Integrated
Approach
for
Managing
Uncertainty
News
-iWorld
U.S.
Department
of
State
GEC
(The
Global
Engagement
Center
at
the
U.S.
Department
of
State)
August
2020:
Pillars
of
Russia's
Dis
information
and
Propaganda
Ecosystem
14.1.05
_alexeev.
pdf|
Denis
Alexeev:
Russian
Politics
in
Times
of
Change:
Internal
and
External
Factors
of
Trans
formation
When former U.S. secretary of defense Dick Cheney (in President George W. Bush administration) claimed:
"Budget drives strategy, strategy doesn't drive budget" one should ask him what he means?"
Budget
Drives
Strategy
But
Strategy
Doesn't
Drive
Budget
4 April 2021
When former U.S. secretary of defense Dick Cheney (George W. Bush administration) claims:"Budget drives strategy, strategy doesn't drive budget" one should ask him what he means?"
The tragic events caused by people lik George W. Bush, Dick Chaney and Donald Romsfeld are well-known.
George W. Bush once said:" I'm decider and I decided to apppoint Donald Romsfeld as the defense minister."
If you take the profits out of the military contracts, then some politicians [ who are making money from these military contracts] like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, will be depressed and their lives will be changed from up to down!
Dick Chaney and Donald Rumsfeld were both the War makers in the Middle East and they surely had caused mass killings and destructions.
In the budget of the so-called the "War makers" the size of the "War budget" (or the defense budget) must be encompassed to some serious strategic debates [due to the huge profits for the the military contractors] in association with those politicians in the governments who have been proudly prostituted themselves by many ways to profit from making wars around the globe.
The war strategists whose umblical cords attached to the big military contractors, are not able to gurantee a bloodless environment when they they talk entusiastically about wars.
The politicians and their military advisers associate themselves with some "High-Tech-Warriors".
Designing weapons to minimize causlities among peoples but planning and making wars at the pleasure of profiteers sounds a crazy thing!
These War planners want by using high-tech like robots and drones to take some of the blood out of the battles but they want also to keep wars as their permanent agenda.
An amalgam of chauvinistic thoughts for nationalism, populism,racism and military mentality can tend the leaders of countries to a military confrontation.
Not allocating and wasting the needed money for living of people [in the military budget] for making of mass destruction weapons as well as for the intellectual warfare, will allow the governments to have enough money for the needs of people.
Those strategists who advise to the governments to prioritize the military projects are taking responsibilities in killings and destructions.
Many people say that wars are deplorable.
They say that wars mean killing and destroying.
It is also believed that these strategists who advocate the military projects, wars and the bloodsheds are selling fears in the third world countries.
The planners and the strategists for the military projects in the industrial countries in the West as well as in Russia and China are interested in a maximal bloodshed because of porofits.
ll
Bit by bit, the mass killings mentality through the wars is creeping into thinking
of those strstegists who advocate the military projects to the governments.
It is worth to underscore, however, the doctrines of these strategists who advie the Western govermments for winning of wars by mass killings [in the third world countries] are rationalizing their theories and evilness in the Western media.
The leaders of the West as well as the leader of Russia before to say they have all the military plans on the table, they try to subdue the leaders of the thirld world coyntries without fighting and they believe this is the best skill.
We humans, call ourselves as a spiecies with the homo sapience characters, we call ourselves as the intelligent intelligent and we reason that evolution has equipped us with a richly interconnected brains to decide for a better life for all.
The peaceful nations who are equipped with a knowledge strategy, must resist to the mentality of investing on the killing machines like the strategic missile program or like Iskander mussile system to launch and destroy everything.
The peaceful world should steel itself for a century of peaceful dialogues among all nations in the world rather than investing on mass killing weapons.
Do our politicians, military leaders, peacemakers are aware to the consequences of selling of the mass killing weapons by the USA, Russia, France, China, Germany, Sweden to the third world countries?
To understand life, people should understand what means peace and what means life.
Alvin and Heidi Toffler in chapter 24 of their 1993 book "War and Anti War" (Boston, Little Brown And Company) write:
"Peace at the dawn of the twenty-first century requires the surgical application of a less tangible but frequently more potent weapon:kniwledge."(p.230)
The authors address:
"What is glaringly absent today, even as armies begin thinking strategically about the use of knowledge, are cogerent knowledge strategies for peace." (p.230)
Making wars are propagated from everywhere.
High-Tech warriors make the new wars differently by using the new military technilogies including Robots.
Still, deaths, destructions are the kings of wars today.
Still, the regugees and their misreable lives are everyehere today.
War is a war.
The military high-tech warriors and robots cannot distinguish a mother with her baby when they confront.
The Killer Robots will kill a mother with her baby because the training of the algorithms teach them to kill whoever they confront.
War is a war. With robots or not with robots.
In all Wars, the agenda is killing and destroying.
Macron
:Nations
must
define
the
red
lines
with
Russia
unian.info
Zelensky
Office
chief's
advisor
names
goal
of
Russia's
military
build-
up
along
Ukraine
borders
19
April
2021|
Reuters:
Russian
Military
Numbers
More
Than
150,000
Troops
In
The
Name
of
Defense
But
For
Profits
of
The
Military
Contractors
4 April 2021
The military build-ups are blossoming and the defense-budgets rising up no matter how many people in those countries go hungry into bed every night.
The January 2, 2020 issue USA TODAY "usatoday.com" published an article entitled "Lockheed Martin, Boeing among the 20 companies profiting the most from war" written by Thomas C. Frohlich and Hristina Byrnes. (24/7 WALL STREET)
24/7 Wall Street is a USA TODAY content partner offering financial news and commentary. Its content is produced independently of USA TODAY.
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
Thomas C. Frohlich and Hristina Byrnes write:
"Lockheed Martin is by far the largest defense contractor in the world. The Bethesda, Maryland, company made $47.26 billion in arms and defense contracts last year, considerably more than the arms and military services sales at Boeing, the second largest defense contractor."
"While indisputably," the authors add, "the largest arms and military services company on this list, Lockheed is nowhere near the size of civilian manufacturing companies."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20 companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
According to Mr. Frohlich and Ms. Byrnes:
"Global arms sales totaled $420 billion in 2018, up 4.6% from 2017, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institut (SIPRI)."
The authors explain:
"U.S.-based companies again dominate SIPRI's list of top global arms manufacturers and military services providers."
The writers address:
"With Congress passing its record high $738 billion defense spending bill this December, which includes military modernization and a new Space Force military branch, this trend is likely to continue."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
Frohlich and Byrness write:
"24/7 Wall St. reviewed data provided by SIPRI to identify the companies profiting most from war."
The authors point out:
"Companies were ranked based on SIPRI's estimates of arms and military services sales in 2018."
Frohlich and Byrness explain:
"Chinese companies were not considered due to lack of sufficient data."
The writers note:
"Arms and military services sales figures came from SIPRI."
Mr. Frohlich and Ms. Byrness inform:
"Profits for the latest fiscal year came from financial reports and corporate press releases."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
The authors address:
"The United States is home to half of the world’s 10 largest defense contractors and to 43 of the top 100 defense companies."
They say:
"These companies accounted for 59% of total arms sales by the world’s 100 largest defense contractors in 2018 – an increase of 7.2%."
The authors quote Aude Fleurant, Director of SIPRI’s Arms and Military Expenditure Programme said in SIPRI's December press release as saying:
“US companies are preparing for the new arms modernization programme that was announced in 2017 by President Trump.”
“Large US companies are merging to be able to produce the new generation of weapon systems and therefore be in a better position to win."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
Frohlich and Brynes address:
"President Donald Trump proposed in 2017 a defense budget of $716 billion, and modernization would include the establishment of a sixth armed service for space."
"Congress approved this December a defense budget of $738 billion."
The authors write:
"Northrop Grumman Corp. and General Dynamics – two of the top five arms and military services companies – each completed multi-billion dollar acquisitions in 2018, for example."
The writers explain:
"Like many defense contractors, Booz Allen Hamilton has reacted to U.S. plans to modernize its military – President Donald Trump proposed in 2017 a defense budget of $716 billion, a significant increase from previous years – by making investments in the space sector."
Frohlich and Byrness quote Booz Allen Hamilton Senior VP Chris Bogdan, speaking to SpaceNews in July, as ssying:
"We don't build satellites, rockets or rovers."
"We are investing in open architectures, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data visualization."
The authors address:
"Congress approved this December a defense budget of $738 billion."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
Mr. Frohlich and Ms. Byrnes address:
"United Shipbuilding Corporation, the largest shipbuilding company in Russia, was established in March 2007."
The authors explain:
"The state-owned defense contractor sold $4.7 billion worth of arms in 2018."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
The writers point out:
"Arms sales accounted for 84% of USC's total revenue for the year."
Frohlich and Byrnes address:
"In July 2014, U.S. Department of the Treasury added USC to a list of companies banned from doing business in the United States."
The authors report:
"The sanctions were imposed in response to Russia's continued support for separatists in eastern Ukraine."
According to the writers:
"Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has been transitioning to a privatized economy."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
Mr. Frohlich and Ms. Brynes explain:
"The defense industry, however, remains almost entirely state-owned."
The authors write:
"United Aircraft Corporation was established by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin in early 2006."
The writers explain:
"The company manufactures civil and special purpose aircraft, but it makes most of its money from arms sales – $5.4 billion in 2018, or 83% of its total revenue that year."
They add:
"UAC's military aircraft include MiG, Sukhoi, and Yak fighter jets. Though it is based in Russia, UAC has partners in India and Italy."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January 2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
Over
1
Trillion
Rubels
Military
Expenditure
In
Russia
4 April 2021
On May 3, 2019, Defense News "defebsenews.com" published an article entitled "Russian defense spending is much larger, and more sustainable than it seems" written by Michael Kofman.
Source:
Michael
Kofman
(May 3, 2019):
Russian
defense
spending
is
larger,
and
more
sustainable
than
it
seems
Michael Kofman writes:
"The Stockholm International Peace and Research Institute that Russian military spending has fallen to the sixth highest in the world in 2018, at $61.4 billion."
The author address:
"Rest assured, or perhaps discomforted: Russian defense spending is several times higher than $61.4 billion, and the Russian defense budget remains the third largest in the world, dwarfing the military expenditures of most European states combined."
According to Mr. Kofman:
"In reality Russia’s effective military expenditure, based on purchasing power parity (Moscow buys from Russian defense manufacturers in rubles), is more in the range of $150-180 billion per year, with a much higher percentage dedicated to procurement, research and development than Western defense budgets."
Source:
Michael
Kofman
(May 3, 2019):
Russian
defense
spending
is
larger,
and
more
sustainable
than
it
seems
The writer address:
"Although there are challenges with comparing economies based on purchasing power parity, it would do good to keep in mind that Russia is actually the sixth-largest economy in the world and not long ago was the largest economy in Europe based on purchasing power parity (PPP) — ahead of Germany."
Mr. Kofman explains:
"Purchasing power comparisons come with their own shortcomings, especially when understanding global financial flows, import/export, and the like, but it helps paint a much more accurate picture than comparing economies by converting their gross domestic product into dollars based on the current exchange rate."
Source:
Michael
Kofman
(May 3, 2019):
Russian
defense
spending
is
larger,
and
more
sustainable
than
it
seems
The author points out:
"The ruble valuation suddenly dropped by 50 percent against the dollar, which it did in 2014, does that mean the Russian economy suddenly contracted by half in one year?"
Mr. Kofman adds:
"No, it doesn’t."
The writer explains:
"Then why is this a useful way of looking at the world and understanding the relative balance of economic power or military expenditure?"
Source:
Michael
Kofman
(May 3, 2019):
Russian
defense
spending
is
larger,
and
more
sustainable
than
it
seems
According to Mr. Kofman:
"The Russian defense budget fluctuates at around 3 trillion rubles, but total military expenditure includes housing, pensions, infrastructure, the National Guard, the Border Guard Service and some line items that are secret."
The author addresses:
"Depending on what you count, total military expenditure can add to roughly 4 trillion rubles in 2018 or about 4 percent of GDP."
The writer states:
"This also means that a decline in overall military expenditure, as recently reported by SIPRI, does not necessarily mean a reduction in Russian spending on military operations, procurement, R&D, or maintaining the force."
"There is well over 1 trillion rubles of military expenditure in Russia outside of the regular defense budget."
Source:
Michael
Kofman
(May 3, 2019):
Russian
defense
spending
is
larger,
and
more
sustainable
than
it
seems
Source:
September
2015:
:Knowledge
Strategy:
An
Integrated
Approach
for
Managing
Uncertainty
Constantin Bratianu (Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies) and Ettore Bolisani (University of Padova) write:
"Knowledge strategy is a new semantic construct that reflects the integration process of Knowledge Management and Strategic Management."
The authors explain:
"It is a construct aiming at creating new value by considering knowledge as a strategic resource in managerial decision making."
The writer address:
"The way knowledge strategy and its planning can be seen is affected by the consideration of uncertainty and environmental turbulence."
Source:
September
2015:
:Knowledge
Strategy:
An
Integrated
Approach
for
Managing
Uncertainty
Bratianu and Bolisani explain:
"In a highly predictable environment, knowledge strategy can be seen as a rational approach, where knowledge resources and the processes to achieve and manage them can be set and planned in advance."
"However," the authors add, "in a turbulent business environment and continuous struggle for achieving a competitive advantage, strategic thinking and planning implies different approaches."
Source:
September
2015:
:Knowledge
Strategy:
An
Integrated
Approach
for
Managing
Uncertainty
The writers point out:
"Strategic thinking and organizational knowledge integrated in a powerful vision can help managers and business leaders in defining a spectrum of possible futures and transforming some of them into probable and desirable futures."
Then," the authors write, "choosing one of these desirable futures managers work out knowledge strategies to achieve some strategic objectives."
Bratianu and Bolisani explain:
"The purpose of this paper is to reflect on these issues and to provide an updated survey of strategy thinking by presenting knowledge strategies as an integrated approach to manage uncertainty and to create desirable futures in business environments."
Source:
September
2015:
:Knowledge
Strategy:
An
Integrated
Approach
for
Managing
Uncertainty
The authors address:
"Our research questions are the following:
a) What is the definition of knowledge strategy, and how can this term be related to the more general issue of strategic thinking and strategic planning in organizations?
b) What are limitations of a rational approach to knowledge strategy in turbulent environments and under uncertainty?
c) What are the models that can be applied to formulate knowledge strategies based on a consideration of uncertainty and knowledge dynamics?
Bratianu and Bolisani state:
"For dealing with these questions we based our approach on an extensive search and analysis of the existing literature in both fields of knowledge management and strategic management, and on conceptual modeling of knowledge strategies."
Source:
September
2015:
:Knowledge
Strategy:
An
Integrated
Approach
for
Managing
Uncertainty
News
-iWorld
U.S.
Department
of
State
GEC
(The
Global
Engagement
Center
at
the
U.S.
Department
of
State)
August
2020:
Pillars
of
Russia's
Dis
information
and
Propaganda
Ecosystem
14.1.05
_alexeev.
pdf|
Denis
Alexeev:
Russian
Politics
in
Times
of
Change:
Internal
and
External
Factors
of
Trans
formation
When former U.S. secretary of defense Dick Cheney (in President George W. Bush administration) claimed:
"Budget drives strategy, strategy doesn't drive budget" one should ask him what he means?"
Budget
Drives
Strategy
But
Strategy
Doesn't
Drive
Budget
4 April 2021
When former U.S. secretary of defense Dick Cheney (George W. Bush administration) claims:"Budget drives strategy, strategy doesn't drive budget" one should ask him what he means?"
The tragic events caused by people lik George W. Bush, Dick Chaney and Donald Romsfeld are well-known.
George W. Bush once said:" I'm decider and I decided to apppoint Donald Romsfeld as the defense minister."
If you take the profits out of the military contracts, then some politicians [ who are making money from these military contracts] like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, will be depressed and their lives will be changed from up to down!
Dick Chaney and Donald Rumsfeld were both the War makers in the Middle East and they surely had caused mass killings and destructions.
In the budget of the so-called the "War makers" the size of the "War budget" (or the defense budget) must be encompassed to some serious strategic debates [due to the huge profits for the the military contractors] in association with those politicians in the governments who have been proudly prostituted themselves by many ways to profit from making wars around the globe.
The war strategists whose umblical cords attached to the big military contractors, are not able to gurantee a bloodless environment when they they talk entusiastically about wars.
The politicians and their military advisers associate themselves with some "High-Tech-Warriors".
Designing weapons to minimize causlities among peoples but planning and making wars at the pleasure of profiteers sounds a crazy thing!
These War planners want by using high-tech like robots and drones to take some of the blood out of the battles but they want also to keep wars as their permanent agenda.
An amalgam of chauvinistic thoughts for nationalism, populism,racism and military mentality can tend the leaders of countries to a military confrontation.
Not allocating and wasting the needed money for living of people [in the military budget] for making of mass destruction weapons as well as for the intellectual warfare, will allow the governments to have enough money for the needs of people.
Those strategists who advise to the governments to prioritize the military projects are taking responsibilities in killings and destructions.
Many people say that wars are deplorable.
They say that wars mean killing and destroying.
It is also believed that these strategists who advocate the military projects, wars and the bloodsheds are selling fears in the third world countries.
The planners and the strategists for the military projects in the industrial countries in the West as well as in Russia and China are interested in a maximal bloodshed because of porofits.
ll
Bit by bit, the mass killings mentality through the wars is creeping into thinking
of those strstegists who advocate the military projects to the governments.
It is worth to underscore, however, the doctrines of these strategists who advie the Western govermments for winning of wars by mass killings [in the third world countries] are rationalizing their theories and evilness in the Western media.
The leaders of the West as well as the leader of Russia before to say they have all the military plans on the table, they try to subdue the leaders of the thirld world coyntries without fighting and they believe this is the best skill.
We humans, call ourselves as a spiecies with the homo sapience characters, we call ourselves as the intelligent intelligent and we reason that evolution has equipped us with a richly interconnected brains to decide for a better life for all.
The peaceful nations who are equipped with a knowledge strategy, must resist to the mentality of investing on the killing machines like the strategic missile program or like Iskander mussile system to launch and destroy everything.
The peaceful world should steel itself for a century of peaceful dialogues among all nations in the world rather than investing on mass killing weapons.
Do our politicians, military leaders, peacemakers are aware to the consequences of selling of the mass killing weapons by the USA, Russia, France, China, Germany, Sweden to the third world countries?
To understand life, people should understand what means peace and what means life.
Alvin and Heidi Toffler in chapter 24 of their 1993 book "War and Anti War" (Boston, Little Brown And Company) write:
"Peace at the dawn of the twenty-first century requires the surgical application of a less tangible but frequently more potent weapon:kniwledge."(p.230)
The authors address:
"What is glaringly absent today, even as armies begin thinking strategically about the use of knowledge, are cogerent knowledge strategies for peace." (p.230)
Making wars are propagated from everywhere.
High-Tech warriors make the new wars differently by using the new military technilogies including Robots.
Still, deaths, destructions are the kings of wars today.
Still, the regugees and their misreable lives are everyehere today.
War is a war.
The military high-tech warriors and robots cannot distinguish a mother with her baby when they confront.
The Killer Robots will kill a mother with her baby because the training of the algorithms teach them to kill whoever they confront.
War is a war. With robots or not with robots.
In all Wars, the agenda is killing and destroying.
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Reuters:
Russian
Military
Numbers
More
Than
150,000
Troops
In
The
Name
of
Defense
But
For
Profits
of
The
Military
Contractors
4 April 2021
The military build-ups are blossoming and the defense-budgets rising up no matter how many people in those countries go hungry into bed every night.
The January 2, 2020 issue USA TODAY "usatoday.com" published an article entitled "Lockheed Martin, Boeing among the 20 companies profiting the most from war" written by Thomas C. Frohlich and Hristina Byrnes. (24/7 WALL STREET)
24/7 Wall Street is a USA TODAY content partner offering financial news and commentary. Its content is produced independently of USA TODAY.
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
Thomas C. Frohlich and Hristina Byrnes write:
"Lockheed Martin is by far the largest defense contractor in the world. The Bethesda, Maryland, company made $47.26 billion in arms and defense contracts last year, considerably more than the arms and military services sales at Boeing, the second largest defense contractor."
"While indisputably," the authors add, "the largest arms and military services company on this list, Lockheed is nowhere near the size of civilian manufacturing companies."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20 companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
According to Mr. Frohlich and Ms. Byrnes:
"Global arms sales totaled $420 billion in 2018, up 4.6% from 2017, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institut (SIPRI)."
The authors explain:
"U.S.-based companies again dominate SIPRI's list of top global arms manufacturers and military services providers."
The writers address:
"With Congress passing its record high $738 billion defense spending bill this December, which includes military modernization and a new Space Force military branch, this trend is likely to continue."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
Frohlich and Byrness write:
"24/7 Wall St. reviewed data provided by SIPRI to identify the companies profiting most from war."
The authors point out:
"Companies were ranked based on SIPRI's estimates of arms and military services sales in 2018."
Frohlich and Byrness explain:
"Chinese companies were not considered due to lack of sufficient data."
The writers note:
"Arms and military services sales figures came from SIPRI."
Mr. Frohlich and Ms. Byrness inform:
"Profits for the latest fiscal year came from financial reports and corporate press releases."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
The authors address:
"The United States is home to half of the world’s 10 largest defense contractors and to 43 of the top 100 defense companies."
They say:
"These companies accounted for 59% of total arms sales by the world’s 100 largest defense contractors in 2018 – an increase of 7.2%."
The authors quote Aude Fleurant, Director of SIPRI’s Arms and Military Expenditure Programme said in SIPRI's December press release as saying:
“US companies are preparing for the new arms modernization programme that was announced in 2017 by President Trump.”
“Large US companies are merging to be able to produce the new generation of weapon systems and therefore be in a better position to win."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
Frohlich and Brynes address:
"President Donald Trump proposed in 2017 a defense budget of $716 billion, and modernization would include the establishment of a sixth armed service for space."
"Congress approved this December a defense budget of $738 billion."
The authors write:
"Northrop Grumman Corp. and General Dynamics – two of the top five arms and military services companies – each completed multi-billion dollar acquisitions in 2018, for example."
The writers explain:
"Like many defense contractors, Booz Allen Hamilton has reacted to U.S. plans to modernize its military – President Donald Trump proposed in 2017 a defense budget of $716 billion, a significant increase from previous years – by making investments in the space sector."
Frohlich and Byrness quote Booz Allen Hamilton Senior VP Chris Bogdan, speaking to SpaceNews in July, as ssying:
"We don't build satellites, rockets or rovers."
"We are investing in open architectures, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data visualization."
The authors address:
"Congress approved this December a defense budget of $738 billion."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
Mr. Frohlich and Ms. Byrnes address:
"United Shipbuilding Corporation, the largest shipbuilding company in Russia, was established in March 2007."
The authors explain:
"The state-owned defense contractor sold $4.7 billion worth of arms in 2018."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
The writers point out:
"Arms sales accounted for 84% of USC's total revenue for the year."
Frohlich and Byrnes address:
"In July 2014, U.S. Department of the Treasury added USC to a list of companies banned from doing business in the United States."
The authors report:
"The sanctions were imposed in response to Russia's continued support for separatists in eastern Ukraine."
According to the writers:
"Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has been transitioning to a privatized economy."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January
2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
Mr. Frohlich and Ms. Brynes explain:
"The defense industry, however, remains almost entirely state-owned."
The authors write:
"United Aircraft Corporation was established by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin in early 2006."
The writers explain:
"The company manufactures civil and special purpose aircraft, but it makes most of its money from arms sales – $5.4 billion in 2018, or 83% of its total revenue that year."
They add:
"UAC's military aircraft include MiG, Sukhoi, and Yak fighter jets. Though it is based in Russia, UAC has partners in India and Italy."
Source:
Thomas
C.
Frohlich
and
Hristina
Byrnes
(January 2,
2020):
Lockheed
Martin,
Boeing
among
the
20
companies
profiting
the
most
from
war
Over
1
Trillion
Rubels
Military
Expenditure
In
Russia
4 April 2021
On May 3, 2019, Defense News "defebsenews.com" published an article entitled "Russian defense spending is much larger, and more sustainable than it seems" written by Michael Kofman.
Source:
Michael
Kofman
(May 3, 2019):
Russian
defense
spending
is
larger,
and
more
sustainable
than
it
seems
Michael Kofman writes:
"The Stockholm International Peace and Research Institute that Russian military spending has fallen to the sixth highest in the world in 2018, at $61.4 billion."
The author address:
"Rest assured, or perhaps discomforted: Russian defense spending is several times higher than $61.4 billion, and the Russian defense budget remains the third largest in the world, dwarfing the military expenditures of most European states combined."
According to Mr. Kofman:
"In reality Russia’s effective military expenditure, based on purchasing power parity (Moscow buys from Russian defense manufacturers in rubles), is more in the range of $150-180 billion per year, with a much higher percentage dedicated to procurement, research and development than Western defense budgets."
Source:
Michael
Kofman
(May 3, 2019):
Russian
defense
spending
is
larger,
and
more
sustainable
than
it
seems
The writer address:
"Although there are challenges with comparing economies based on purchasing power parity, it would do good to keep in mind that Russia is actually the sixth-largest economy in the world and not long ago was the largest economy in Europe based on purchasing power parity (PPP) — ahead of Germany."
Mr. Kofman explains:
"Purchasing power comparisons come with their own shortcomings, especially when understanding global financial flows, import/export, and the like, but it helps paint a much more accurate picture than comparing economies by converting their gross domestic product into dollars based on the current exchange rate."
Source:
Michael
Kofman
(May 3, 2019):
Russian
defense
spending
is
larger,
and
more
sustainable
than
it
seems
The author points out:
"The ruble valuation suddenly dropped by 50 percent against the dollar, which it did in 2014, does that mean the Russian economy suddenly contracted by half in one year?"
Mr. Kofman adds:
"No, it doesn’t."
The writer explains:
"Then why is this a useful way of looking at the world and understanding the relative balance of economic power or military expenditure?"
Source:
Michael
Kofman
(May 3, 2019):
Russian
defense
spending
is
larger,
and
more
sustainable
than
it
seems
According to Mr. Kofman:
"The Russian defense budget fluctuates at around 3 trillion rubles, but total military expenditure includes housing, pensions, infrastructure, the National Guard, the Border Guard Service and some line items that are secret."
The author addresses:
"Depending on what you count, total military expenditure can add to roughly 4 trillion rubles in 2018 or about 4 percent of GDP."
The writer states:
"This also means that a decline in overall military expenditure, as recently reported by SIPRI, does not necessarily mean a reduction in Russian spending on military operations, procurement, R&D, or maintaining the force."
"There is well over 1 trillion rubles of military expenditure in Russia outside of the regular defense budget."
Source:
Michael
Kofman
(May 3, 2019):
Russian
defense
spending
is
larger,
and
more
sustainable
than
it
seems
To understand life, people should understand what means peace and what means life.
Alvin and Heidi Toffler in chapter 24 of their 1993 book "War and Anti War" (Boston, Little Brown And Company) write:
"Peace at the dawn of the twenty-first century requires the surgical application of a less tangible but frequently more potent weapon:kniwledge."(p.230)
The authors address:
"What is glaringly absent today, even as armies begin thinking strategically about the use of knowledge, are cogerent knowledge strategies for peace." (p.230)
Making wars are propagated from everywhere.
High-Tech warriors make the new wars differently by using the new military technilogies including Robots.
Still, deaths, destructions are the kings of wars today.
Still, the regugees and their misreable lives are everyehere today.
War is a war.
The military high-tech warriors and robots cannot distinguish a mother with her baby when they confront.
The Killer Robots will kill a mother with her baby because the training of the algorithms teach them to kill whoever they confront.
War is a war. With robots or not with robots.
In all Wars, the agenda is killing and destroying.
