Militær inkompetence på hitlisten
Den mest eftersøgte antikvariske bog i 2014 var "Den militære inkompetences psykologi" af Jonathan Cape fra 1975:
"Interestingly, the #1 spot on this year's list went to On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman F. Dixon. The book examines in deep detail the power dynamics and reasoning behind blunders in military leadership and strategy from The Boer War, WWI, The Crimean War and more. From a perspective of analyzing personalities and intellectual abilities behind positions of power, even considering factors such as character traits prized and abhorred in the military, On the Psychology of Military Incompetence asks very tough questions and even offers some answers. No doubt the book has ruffled its share of feathers since its original publication. The book's overlying, scathing assertion is that by its very own structure, the military is assuring its own continued failure by the types of people it attracts, promotes and makes leaders: Such personality traits - fear of failure, need for approval, orderliness, excessive obedience and underlying hostility etc. - fit in so well with the requirements of military organizations, that a proportion of these people may rise to high rank. At the top, however, those features of their psychological make-up which assured their ascent may prove sadly incapacitating. Over-control, rigidity, having a 'closed-mind', do not lend themselves to the task of fathoming, let alone dealing with, the great uncertainities of war." Frands Frydendal - januar 2015
> Pas på Kinas indflydelse - men hvad styrer din forargelse? Kinesiske Huaweis produkter bør ikke benyttes herhjemme i kritisk infrastruktur. Det er budskabet fra en række danske politikere med SF i spidsen, efter at USA har udsendt en lignende advarsel. Venstre er enige, og argumenterer med at kinesisk lov kan pålægge enhver virksomhed at hjælpe staten med at lure. Kinas overvågning af egne borgere er skræmmende virkelighed, så der er gode grunde til at undersøge, om landet tilsvarende misbruger sin rolle som samlehal for alverdens elektronik. Alligevel kan det undre, at Venstre er så opmærksom på at Kina måske kunne kikke med gennem sine dimser, men stort set ikke reagerer på, når USA gør det samme. Og alle lader til at have glemt forløbet op til at USA advarede verden mod at benytte netop Huawei, hvilket først skete, da en NSA-infiltration mod firmaets fabrikker mislykkedes: "A NSA special-operations unit bored into the company's technical data, eventually compromising servers holding source code for the firmware that runs the routers and switches Huawei builds for large corporations and telecommunications companies. The goal was to build secret backdoors or security flaws into the source code, which Huawei would then build into its own products and distribute to a customer base so large that Huawei boasts that its products connect a third of the world's population." NSA ville givet have anbefalet Huawei til os alle, om dette projekt fra 2010 med at liste en trojansk hest ind i firmaets produkter fortsat var lykkedes. Og vi kan naturligvis være helt sikre på, at ethvert produkt som NSA anbefaler, rummer bagdøre til USAs egen overvågning. Den danske efterretningstjenestes Center for Cybersikkerhed ønsker ikke at gribe ind mod Huawei endnu, da hverken USA eller andre har fremlagt konkrete beviser. Alligevel står danske politikere i kø for advare mod en mulig rød fare, samtidig med at de er påfaldende tavse om den dokumenterede risiko i fx NSA-infiltrerede produkter fra firmaer som IBM, Maxtor, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba og Western Digital. Som altid er det interessant at spørge, hvad der mon styrer vores fælles forargelse! Tom Vilmer Paamand - januar 2019