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Please join us on Sunday, 14 June 2015 at 5pm (1700)(EDT) for Midrats Episode 284: 200th Anniversary of Waterloo with John Kuehn:
18 June will be the 200th Anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, fought in present-day Belgium. Just in time, a regular guest to Midrats, John Kuehn, has his latest book out, Napoleonic Warfare: The Operational Art of the Great Campaigns where he covers the operational level analysis of European warfare from 1792 to 1815, including the tactics, operations, and strategy of major conflicts of the time.
More than just a description of set piece battle, there is a discussion of naval warfare, maneuver warfare, compound warfare, and counterinsurgency.
We've got him for the full hour … we should be able to get to most of it.
Dr. John T. Kuehn is the General William Stofft Chair for Historical Research at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He retired from the U.S. Navy 2004 at the rank of commander after 23 years of service as a naval flight officer in EP-3s and ES-3s. He authored Agents of Innovation (2008) and co-authored Eyewitness Pacific Theater (2008) with D.M. Giangreco, as well as numerous articles and editorials and was awarded a Moncado Prize from the Society for Military History in 2011.
His previous book was, A military History of Japan: From the Age of the Samurai to the 21st Century.
Join us live or pick the show up later by clicking here. You can also find the show later at our iTunes page here.
The Navy as an Extension of Diplomacy
By VADM James Foggo
"A good Navy is not a provocation of war. It is the surest guarantee of peace." -Theodore Roosevelt
On 8 June I reported in this media forum on the launch of 49 ships from the port of Gdynia, Poland for the largest BALTOPS exercise ever — BALTOPS 2015.
The reason we are assembled as the maritime arm of the NATO alliance for this exercise is to show unity of effort and purpose, and to strengthen the combined response capabilities of our NATO allies and partners in the Baltic Sea region.
We come with 49 ships of all varieties large and small, over 60 aircraft, 5,600 air, ground and maritime forces from 17 participating nations to include 700 Marines from Finland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
During the first day of operations, we were over-flown by Russian Air Force and shadowed by three Russian Navy surface ships. This was not unexpected based on recent experience.
The Russian planes made a few passes and then a couple of Russian Corvettes came up on either side of the formation as we were conducting our exercises – nothing untoward, just showing interest and an acknowledgement that they know we are here.
As Navies have done for centuries, we have taken a dual track approach to maritime security. What do I mean by that?
While BALTOPS 2015 is demonstrating a sizeable and highly capable force at sea, we are pursuing other avenues to assure security in this and other maritime regions in Europe. As an example, we invited a Russian Navy delegation for the annual Prevention of Incidents On and Over the High Seas (INCSEA) review, which took place yesterday at the U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet Headquarters in Naples, Italy. The Russian delegation was headed by Vice Adm. Oleg Burtsev and the U.S. delegation by Rear Adm. John Nowell, Chief of Staff, U.S. 6th Fleet.
Discussions between the two delegations were frank and professional with the intent of alleviating any miscues, misunderstandings or miscalculations between our two naval and air forces wherever they might encounter one another.
Established in 1972, the bilateral INCSEA agreement between our two countries codified the mutual interest of both sides in promoting safety of navigation and safety of flight when operating on and over international waters and specified an annual meeting to review compliance with the articles of the agreement.
The last time our two navies met was in November 2013, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
BALTOPS 2015 and the subsequent INCSEA review is a good example of naval forces and naval officers acting as an extension of diplomacy.
For me, as Commander of BALTOPS, I look forward to the positive outcome of the INCSEA discussions filtering down to the deck plate level of the Baltic Fleet. The true measure of success will be when ALL Navies operate ships, submarines and aircraft safely and professionally not just here in the Baltic Sea, but elsewhere around the world. Stay tuned…
CS-21R for the Tactical Warfighter
By LT Roger Misso
Three months after the unveiling of "A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower," or CS-21R, America's sea services are busy as ever. While the document did not change much from its predecessor, it has elicited questions from junior officers and enlisted around the fleet, such as "how does it impact my immediate job?" and "we still get MIDRATS, right?"
CS-21R is a must-read for officers and enlisted of every rank and rate. It paints a compelling picture of naval operations in this century that can help answer some of the "Why are we here and what are we doing?" questions we frequently ponder.
Although it is a strategic document, CS-21R has implications for warfighters at the tactical level. The actions of individual sailors and aviators on ships, submarines, aircraft, and on the ground can have a marked effect on the efficacy of our naval strategy. While the following list is not all-inclusive, it does serve to highlight how those executing at the tactical level of warfare can help achieve more widespread success and competency across both our service and the joint force.
1) Know your OPTASKs, OPORDs, PPRs, CCIRs, etc. Don't rely on the roving Air Wing or Strike Group brief or the cockpit cheat sheet; actually read the documents, comprehend them, and help others do the same.
2) Understand the intelligence and "battlespace awareness" process. Most ships, squadrons, and other units have intelligence officers, but many are not using these individuals to their full potential. Remember that your Information Dominance Corps (IDC) officer hasn't gone through flight training or your warfare-specific school but they have been trained to help improve your knowledge of the threats you may face or the people you may interact with. Help them understand what you do, and take the time to really understand what they do and need from you. What reports are they making with your information? How can you use your sensor to give them a better product and achieve mission success? They are as much a part of the kill chain or the OODA loop as you.
3) Never rest on your laurels. Constantly strive to consider how each platform and operator influences your sphere of operation. You should work for a symbiotic relationship as much as possible; for example, understanding the operation of radio equipment onboard a destroyer can help an F/A-18 pilot better communicate across the range of operations, throughout the battlespace. This is not an assignment that will be doled out to you by some prescient being; you must actively work to create your own synergy. Pick up the phone, send an E-mail, or walk to a space and take time to do thorough coordination.
4) No platform is an island. Do not do your job alone; you must work to include all other service, joint, and increasingly, multi-national operators in your processes and procedures. The time to "get on the same page" is before bullets and bombs start flying. Each squadron, department, and division should have applicable contacts in other units performing similar missions. For example, E-2C squadrons should proactively establish a dialogue with all elements of theater command and control, including AWACS, JSTARS, CAOC, CDC, and ASOC. This can either be "tasked" by a higher headquarters or voluntarily initiated by the unit itself; either way, make contact early, and keep it often.
5) Figure out how to do a Spartan mission. The Electromagnetic Spectrum is being legitimately contested by near-peer nations and non-state actors; this may have serious consequences as our military relies more and more on complex systems and trends towards technological complacency. Paper charts, communications brevity, and even lights and signals remain important media for mission accomplishment in extremis. Excellence in operating in information- and network-denied environments is crucial. This aptitude is not easily measured, but is essential to real unit readiness.
6) Take time to understand unit, service, theater, and national Command and Control (C2). More than bullets or bombs, information is the most critical commodity in today's conflicts. How does that information flow? Where does it go? Who communicates? What is the dwell time of each communication? What is each communication supposed to sound like? Why does it behave this way? Taking time to understand "who's who in the zoo" and establish good relationships can be the difference between success and failure in critical phases of combat.
7) Get innovative with mission planning. It is important to understand and respect the past actions of the threat, but always consider how the threat may evolve to catch you off guard when you least expect it. As General Stanley McChrystal advises in his book Team of Teams, "data-rich records can be wonderful for explaining how complex phenomena happened and how they might happen, but they can't tell us when and where they will happen." Be smarter than your enemy, not just more technologically advanced.
8) Leverage unmanned systems to maximize your lethality and effectiveness and to improve your survivability. Surveillance feeds from unmanned air and surface craft can also increase situational awareness, especially as platforms operate across domains (such as when a surface ship fires a Tomahawk missile at a land target, or a manned rotary wing aircraft is executing surface search against maritime targets).
9) The network is a means, not an end. Too many entities act with the belief that "the network will save us." Use it for leverage, or to quicken your reaction time and increase situational awareness. But remember that you can't fire a network at a ballistic missile or unidentified surface contact.
10) Ensure a thorough understanding among all theater players of your TTPs. NIFC-CA and other concepts increase the complexity of operations. Leverage capabilities and technology but keep the plan simple. This goes beyond immediate mission planning—ensure a level of understanding throughout all theater players on your TTPs and capabilities. If you are on the ground, and the only asset you can contact for air support does not understand what you are asking or speak your particular "language," the time for teaching may be extracted at a price.
Tactical actions have strategic consequences.
Read. Think. Write. Debate. Then, Operate.
Yet, despite a review of Power Transition Theory examining why these states might come to blows, Ghost Fleet's expedition into the near future primarily focuses on how such a great power conflict might be fought. Singer and Cole are at their best in teasing out the interplay between potential advances in emerging technologies – backed by impressive end-noting – rather than isolating the implications of a single capability. These range from Big Data and unmanned systems to additive manufacturing and augmented reality. The authors' depictions of cutting-edge Chinese developments picking apart current U.S. weapons systems might make for queasy reading among some in the military. In this way it effectively serves to warn against complacency in presuming American technological superiority in conflict. But it bears remembering that success in employing the new capabilities detailed in Ghost Fleet, as in life, requires a level of creativity available (and not guaranteed) to both sides.
Singer and Cole also explore how the supposed American Way of War of grinding attrition, popularized by the eponymous 1973 Russell Weigley book, might fare in an age of offensive space and cyber weapons. In doing so they create intriguing portraits of empowered individuals (both socio-economically and skills-wise), expats, and a globalized defense industrial base on a war footing. Some of the most memorable scenes come from the juxtaposition of new capabilities with old operational concepts (occasionally set to the strains of Alice Cooper). Singer and Cole also ably confront readers with a reversal in the traditional role of U.S. forces in an insurgency and the ethical decisions it demands of them.
Ghost Fleet may be the authors' first novel, but it's not their first foray into helping tell a story. Singer has consulted on such projects as Activision's "Call of Duty" video game franchise and honed his prose in such works as Wired for War, an earlier book on the future of robotics warfare. Cole meanwhile has been engaged in the development of insights on warfare by facilitating near-future science fiction writing at the Atlantic Council's "Art of Future Warfare Project" (full disclosure: I had the opportunity to publish a short story of my own there). These experiences have paid off in a very enjoyable page-turner.
This is not to say Ghost Fleet is without flaws. One of the novel's driving emotional stories, an estranged father-son relationship, never quite rings true. With an expansive and fast-moving narrative, a character here and subplot there trail off without satisfactory conclusion. Lastly, while the authors investigate many impacts of a war's fallout on the U.S. Navy, including the resurrection of the ships of the book's title and a call-up of retirees, they missed an opportunity to look at the complications a mobilization of existing Navy Reservists might cause. But such a minor sin of omission doesn't detract from the overall merits of the work. Whether on a commute to the Pentagon or relaxing on a beach in the Hawaii Special Administrative Zone, readers will find Ghost Fleet a highly enjoyable, at times uncomfortable, and always thought-provoking read.
*It should be noted Singer and Cole don't tie those nation's current regimes to their countries' futures, and in doing so remind readers that what would follow a collapse of the Chinese Communist Party is not necessarily more amenable to U.S. or Western interests.
Billy Hurley discusses his time at the Naval Academy, his best moment in the U.S. Navy navigating the Suez Canal, his strong ties to his PGA sponsors and fellow players who support the military.
To the 2015 graduating class, "It's just beginning now…as a Division Officer on a ship…how can you lead them…inspire them…how can you improve them?"
Did he hit golf balls off of a ship?
All about that Bass–No Fire.
By CTR1(SW) H. Lucien Gauthier III
Water, PKP, CO2, Halon, and AFFF are what we use to extinguish fire (I didn't miss one, did I?). AFFF shouldn't really count as it's own method, since water is still the medium in which AFFF is applied.
A clear eyed view of using water to extinguish flame on a ship floating in water–or a submarine suspended in water–is rather perplexing and counterintuitive, practicality notwithstanding. Especially in regards to the reality that air pressure can now be utilized to extinguish flames.
Reports of using sound waves to extinguish flames date back to 2004, when the University of West Georgia demonstrated
the banality of Nickelback the ability of low frequencies to extinguish a candle. In turn, by 2011/12 DARPA then further demonstrated the capability. DARPA's demonstrator appears large and impractical for real-world applications, but clearly and audibly shows fire being extinguished by nothing more than moving air in a specific way (specific Sound Pressure Level and frequencies).
In the last year, two engineering students from George Mason University built upon work done by other researchers and DARPA, and built a handheld technology demonstrator that is capable of putting out small fires.
There's still a lot of testing that needs to be done–this technology has to be falsified to establish the limits of what types of casualties are capable of being combated. But, the benefits of this technology fill a few niches that existing technologies do not.
Foremost in my mind is the potential application of this technology in submarines. The closed atmosphere seems poorly suited for introducing particulates like PKP, and unbreathable CO2. Submarines are suspended far below the surface making the notion of affecting the buoyancy by fighting fire with water border on a crazy but necessary evil.
Viet and Seth, the inventors of the handheld device in the above video seem to have produced their prototype for $600. Which should be a small enough price point to allow some real experimentation. We could procure 10-15 of these extinguishers, give them to the DC-men at the Naval Training Centers, and tell them to falsify this technology. We'd ask them to establish what we can and cannot do with this technology, how it could augment our existing fire fighting capabilities, and how the technology should evolve from this demonstrator to a tool ready for the Fleet. Additionally, building an array of transducers into the overhead of an engine room could provide a wide-area suppression system similar to the AFFF systems already installed.
No de-watering after securing from a casualty. No wiping CO2 'flakes' off electrical equipment. Theoretically, the only thing on the MRC for this unit would be checking the battery charge level and the material condition of the transducer. There are significant benefits to adopting this rapidly maturing technology, and I believe it behooves us as a Navy to explore this technology and adopt it.
"Never let a serious crisis go to waste.
And what I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
Rahm Emanuel
We are living in a time of crisis. From the ongoing conflict in Iraq to the lingering threat of a Greek bond default, the American-led global order is confronted daily with multiple threats to its stability. These threats are occurring at a time when the resources required to manage these challenges are stretched increasingly thin. The US methodology for dealing with geopolitical crises remains largely unchanged since the end of World War II – scramble the diplomats, rally our allies, convene the UN Security Council, and reposition the aircraft carriers. Rarely have policymakers actually resolved the crisis. Rather, they work to restore the status quo ante crisis, or at least avoid the worst possible outcome.
There is, however, an equally valid alternative approach to managing the periodic occurrence of systemically destabilizing events, an approach that has been utilized successfully by other countries, if not by the United States. In the above statement Mr. Emmanuel was, consciously or not, paraphrasing a piece of popular Chinese wisdom; when written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
The Chinese have had ample opportunities to operationally deploy the "crisis-as-an-opportunity" philosophy since their reintegration into the global system in the early 1980s. Several crises have threatened China's unique system of one-party rule; notably the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and the 1997 Asian financial crisis. In both cases, the Chinese Communist Party was able to adjust, if not necessarily reform, the institutional responses of its parent state. In order to ward off the threats to stability, it leveraged the conditions created by the crisis to the advantage of the ruling Communist Party.
But nowhere has this quintessentially Chinese view been on display more than in the reconstitution of the Chinese Coast Guard during the Senkaku Islands dispute. The Chinese were skillfully able to leverage the dispute to improve inter-service coordination, refine their operating doctrines, and energize the bureaucracy of the Chinese maritime services to make critical reforms. This piece will not examine the broader geopolitical context of the current dispute, nor will it attempt to guess when or how the dispute, which began to flare up in September 2012, will end. Rather, the focus will be solely on how China's maritime services have not only benefited from constant, low-level military operations other than war from a training and funding perspective, but also how the coast guard agencies fundamentally restructured themselves and become a more potent paramilitary force.
Eliminating Duplication of Effort
Prior to July 2013, the Chinese 'coast guard' was an amalgamation of six different agencies, subordinate to five different ministries, all ultimately operating under the aegis of the State Council, the all-powerful Chinese Interior Ministry headed by the nation's Premier. These agencies were guided by notionally separate but often overlapping law enforcement functions. For example, China's Fisheries Law Enforcement Command (FLEC) was established in May 2000 by the Agricultural Ministry to enforce China's fishing laws, to coordinate fishery disputes with foreign nations, and to cope with major fishery contingencies both in rivers and lakes inside China as well as in China's exclusive economic zone (EEZ). How did the FLEC's mission differ from that of the China Maritime Surveillance (CMS) agency? The CMS was responsible for "patrol and surveillance work in sea areas and coastal areas under China's jurisdiction" as well as preventing illegal acts such as violations of China's marine rights and the damaging of the sea environment and maritime resources. As the Senkakus crisis (a territorial dispute with a fishing dimension) unfolded in 2012, both the FLEC and CMS deployed their respective flotillas to uphold their missions.
These were not small duplications of effort. Both of these agencies were capable of deploying huge materiel and personnel resources – estimates of the vessels in their inventories range into the several hundreds. Each agency had tens of thousands of personnel. These redundancies were further mirrored in the operation of the four other maritime law enforcement agencies –the Maritime Safety Administration, Rescue and Salvage Bureau, the Chinese Coast Guard (more on this agency later) and the Anti-Smuggling Bureau. Clearly, a lack of resources to manage disputes was not China's problem.
Even before the acute phase of the Senkakus crisis began in late 2012, Chinese maritime experts noted that mission duplication and bureaucratic infighting were eroding operational effectiveness. In a piece written for the Guangdong Province Party news organ in May 2012, reporters Fang Kecheng, Zeng Huiping and Zhai Man cited the longstanding need for "a leader" among China's competing coast guard-like agencies. They went on to recommend a "ministry of the ocean" be created to coordinate China's maritime law enforcement policies and responses to foreign infringement of its sovereignty along its littoral regions. Though the authors acknowledge that the lack of administrative leadership reaches back to at least the 1980s, today "weak maritime law-enforcement is responsible for the current situation: Islands and reefs are encroached upon; resources are ransacked; and national dignity is infringed upon (Kecheng et al)." The article goes on to cite the need for force that can go toe to toe with the "Japan Coast Guard" which is held up repeatedly as a model of superior administrative practices and material superiority.
As the Senkakus crisis dragged on into 2013 it became clear that among all the competing coast guard agencies that China Maritime Surveillance (CMS) was the organization best equipped to assert China's sovereignty in the region. For starters, the CMS has boundary enforcement as one of its core missions. Given the degree to which all coast guard vessels had been required to coordinate closely with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) since the start of the crisis, the ascendancy of the CMS is perhaps less than surprising. When formally established in the 1960s, the CMS was headed by the deputy commander of the PLAN South Sea Fleet and continued to be administered by the PLAN until its 1981 transfer to the State Council. This history of operating with traditional naval units likely helped the CMS distinguish itself from the also-rans during the bureaucratic turf battles that have undoubtedly raged quietly since the start of the crisis.
In July 2013, the CMS's position as China's premier paramilitary coast guard force became official and the organization was rechristened as the Chinese Coast Guard, superseding the organization which had previously held that name. The new Chinese Coast Guard, under the aegis of the State Oceanographic Administration (SOA), was given the lead role in drafting and upholding the law enforcement regulations and coordinating the efforts of all 'coast guard' forces. The Chinese state press began to immediately trumpet the importance of this consolidation and praise the efforts of the new Coast Guard units to "sternly declare the Chinese government's stance on its sovereignty over the Diaoyu (Senkaku) Islands."
During the acute phase of the Senkakus crisis, new Chinese maritime operating patterns were observed and commented on by Japanese and Chinese press. Though the crisis was largely a duel between coastal patrol forces, the Chinese and Japanese navies also played a critical role. Destroyers and frigates of the PLAN and Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) conducted overwatch of the coast guard skirmishes. Typically, the PLAN and JMSDF operated out of visual range of the Senkakus themselves, at approximately 40-70 nautical miles from the islands, monitoring the tactical situation via long range sensors. Several times a month from 2012-13, Chinese Coast Guard ships entered into the territorial waters of the Japanese-administered islands waters. The Japanese Coast Guard then sortied and attempted to intercept the Chinese vessels.
These incursions occurred at the time and location of China's choosing, forcing the Japanese to assume a permanently defensive posture. During these incursions, the PLAN and JMSDF ships also drew closer to the Senkakus, 'backing up' their smaller compatriots – the nautical equivalent of relying on your bigger cousin to back you up in a bar fight. These tactics required both Coast Guards to coordinate closely with their respective navies. Both nations' Coast Guard and Navy ships had to share tactical information and intelligence on enemy units and force distribution. This allowed China's Coast Guard and its Navy to develop and modify joint tactics and doctrine in a simulated combat environment without risking sinking – vital training for a force seeking to increase its professionalism and effectiveness.
China was able to use the Senkakus crisis as an impetus for much needed administrative reforms while simultaneously improving joint operability between its coast guard force and the PLAN. The CMS ultimately overshadowed its competition and assumed the mantle of the Chinese Coast Guard. The leaders of the former CMS certainly have much to celebrate, but in the final analysis, it is the Chinese government that is the real winner. With a consolidated, streamlined and increasingly professional Coast Guard, the Chinese are more easily able to challenge Japanese sovereignty of the Senkakus. China likely transferred these lessons learned to other areas where it feels its maritime sovereignty is being threatened, including the South China Sea.
Today, understanding national security means understanding the 'cyber' dimension of warfare. For the last twenty years we have lived in a world where every day more people gain access to the global online commons and benefit financially, politically and educationally from that access. The concept of cyber warfare, taken to its logical extreme, will threaten the very nature of the global commons and force policy makers to improvise strategies to defend it.
The tools, tactics and strategies of cyber warfare are rapidly evolving in complex ways – a process that will be greatly accelerated in the event of conflict between two or more nation-states with mature cyber capabilities. While it is impossible to predict exactly how cyber warfare will shape the future battlespace, a sustained cyber conflict will likely pose an existential threat to the global, lightly regulated internet most liberal democracies know today. The Chinese model of the internet (a tightly regulated national network with few connections to the global system) will likely seem increasingly attractive to policymakers under intense political pressure to stop the constant barrage of foreign cyber-attacks. The global consequences of a shift to such a system would be devastating to the current paradigm of free-flowing information upon which much of the global economy is based.
War As Geopolitical Phase Change: Chaotic Systems and Phase Changes
Imagine a straight line composed of individual dots on a piece of graph paper. The line moves left to right. At a certain point along the line the dots begin to jump around and the line breaks up. Eventually the points are drawn together and reform a line. If you draw a box around the points between the two smooth segments of your line, the points inside that box will be scattered, without any rhyme or reason. In this example, the line is an orderly system, moving in a way that is understandable and predictable. The box that bounds the sporadic points is the outline of a chaotic system. The activity within the box seems strange and erratic.
The graph can be used as a model of human experience. Typically, events proceed in a way we can understand and plan for – a linear progression – but sometimes the nature of events becomes chaotic and we find ourselves unable to make sense of the world around us. War is the 'phase change' period of geopolitics, an inherently chaotic state during which unlikely or seemly insignificant events can play outsized roles in shaping the course of events. Once a person or a civilization is affected by war, the effects can be almost impossible to model. Who in early 2001 envisioned a major American deployment to Afghanistan by the end of the year? Importantly, the effect of war on technology can be also nonlinear and impossible to model.
Cyber at the Threshold of Phase Change
Highly specialized weapons of cyber warfare already exist in the form of STUXNET-class worms. Those weapons have already demonstrated an ability to inflict massive damage on targeted industrial systems. Clearly, cyber weapons will play a role in future conflicts, but it may be impossible to model the extent to which they will reshape the battlefield.
We are likely standing at the end of the first 'linear' period of the history of cyber warfare. Over the last two decades, crude denial of service attacks have evolved into more sophisticated distributed denial of service attacks. Vulnerabilities in operating systems have been used to exploit industrial control systems previously thought to be safe from manipulation due to the 'air gap' separating these control systems from the internet (in the case of STUXNET, the virus was introduced via a USB thumb drive). Cyber tactics are being developed, tested, combined, and retested on a daily basis.
If this already seems like a hopelessly complex problem to solve, I've got bad news for you. Kim Zetter, in her novel Countdown to Zero Day, states that, to date, the total volume of cyber-attacks conducted by nation states still only numbers in the hundreds, and those attacks largely have been conducted independent of conventional military actions. A notable exception, the 'cyber salvo' that Russia launched against Georgia immediately before Russia's 2008 invasion, made headlines, but was only the beginning. Several hundred attacks sounds like a lot, but it's still a small enough number that each attack can be studied and understood. Sustained conflict between any of the mature cyber powers (US, Israel, China, Russia, France, and Iran) will exponentially increase the number and complexity of attacks. Such a conflict will herald the beginning of the phase change.
At the Other End of the Chaotic Interval (The Example of Border Controls)
Though it's impossible to model the way that cyber warfare will evolve once the phase change begins, we can still speculate, as many security experts have, about how a sustained cyber campaign might affect our world. The doomsday scenarios trotted out repeatedly over the last decade have become depressingly familiar: the banks will crash, satellites will fall out of the sky, and the dams will be blown open, flooding everything. Each of these scenarios imagines a particular cyber tactic being violently directed against a defenseless target. These scenarios contain two problematic misconceptions. The first problem with all these scenarios is that they presume to know which tactic (targeting banks, satellites, and dams) will be adopted by cyber actors. It's impossible to know for sure which tactic will be adopted because that decision will likely made during wartime and hence occur during the chaotic interval when nothing can be safely predicted. The second problem is that these scenarios fail to appreciate the ways in which systems under attack will evolve to defend themselves. Warfare is a struggle between forces. Even if targeted nations are slow to understand what's occurring, they will eventually develop strategies to counter cyber threats.
To use an analogy from the early 1900s, before World War I it was possible for a French citizen to travel from France to China with little or no documentation. The pre-World War I era was one of globalization – the states of Europe had not yet developed the mechanisms of border control we now associate with the inter-war and Cold War periods (imagine the fortified checkpoints surrounded by concertina wire and frowning soldiers crouched in machine gun nests).
After World War I, the surviving states all implemented strict border controls. They did this despite the cost and the detrimental effects that checkpoints have on trade and commerce. The risk of uncontrolled borders was just too great. In many cases these control measures lasted until the early 1990s when the European Union made a concerted effort to remove those barriers and expand the freedom of movement of goods and people throughout Europe.
The Fate of the Global Internet
Today's internet is a truly global phenomenon. Users in the United States can easily access websites hosted in Russia, Poland, France, Kenya or Iran. These connections are lightly regulated by most nation states, though China is a major exception. These connections are also highly lucrative. The global internet has allowed financial institutions to quickly and efficiently synchronize operations around the world. Without the internet, there would be no online ordering or 'just in time' manufacturing chains. The social and economic benefits of a direct, unpoliced US – Russia internet connection outweigh the risk of, say, a concerted effort by Russian cyber actors to infiltrate the US banking networks. That may not always be the case.
The response of European states to the violent chaos released by World War I was to severely restrict inter-state economic traffic and the movement of people across borders. A similar phenomenon may occur following the first sustained conflict by major cyber actors. While countries may not completely choke off their citizens' access to web addresses hosted in hostile nation states, it may be incumbent upon those countries to severely restrict that access in the name of network security. China has already moved in this direction by creating the Great Firewall, a system that strictly regulates the points where China's internet connects to the rest of the global commons. President Putin recently called on Russia to build its own internet, calling the existing global internet a 'CIA project.'
The movement away from a global Internet and toward a system of national or regional networks (North Atlantic, EU or North American for example) is one possible outcome of a future cyber conflict. While there is no guarantee that such segmentation will occur, it follows from the way that nations typically react to security crises for which they are unprepared. In a word; they 'overreact,' and tend to put heavy-handed structures in place that can take generations to remove (see also, post-9/11 airport security in the US). For the reasons outlined above, it is likely impossible to know exactly how a cyber-conflict will change our world… but human nature doesn't change much. If we fail, as a nation, to appreciate the degree to which cyber conflict will change our world, we will likely make short-sighted decisions in the heat of the moment that may take a long time to fix. We should start grappling with the implications now, while we're still in the linear phase and have some control over events.
A Call to Write
By admin
The Institute is pleased to have the guidance of a select panel of Navy Officers who believe this destination can continue to host the most important lines of thought concerning naval policy and the nation's defense. LTJG Chris O'Keefe and a network of junior naval officers have agreed to assemble content for the USNI Blog, focusing specifically on key issues that they describe below in their inaugural post.
They are not strangers to the forum, and already have an impressive resume of posts and articles. They continue a fine tradition of important discussions on the USNI Blog led by a strong network of key Navy figures including guest bloggers from the naval blogging community, who were responsible for guiding the USNI Blog to three consecutive years of being named "Best Navy Blog" sponsored by Military.com and USAA. Our founding guest bloggers will continue to contribute as they desire.
Mary D. Ripley | Director of Digital Content
Bill Miller | Publisher
LTJG O'Keefe:
Since 2008, the Naval Institute's blog has served as a key forum for thinkers and naval leaders to collaborate, argue, think, and write. The blog, with its essentially unlimited audience and condensed production timeline, helps ensure the Institute continues to play a vital role in shaping the dialogues that will shape the Navy of the 21st century and beyond. It is important therefore to periodically step back and ensure that the blog's content sufficiently captures the critical discussions taking place throughout the Fleet. A small group of junior naval thinkers is working to facilitate this, and we would like you to join our ranks through thinking and writing.
Looking forward, we've identified conversations in the naval sphere that we believe are not getting enough attention, and that are ripe for dynamic debate. The four identified areas are:
-The navy and cyber
-Personnel policy
-Future war fighting
-Revitalizing practical professional notes
One of the flagship platforms for naval discourse is Proceedings. However, the capacity of the magazine is finite, and there are many discussions that simply may not meet the threshold for publication in a particular issue. The blog team is coordinating with the Proceedings editorial staff to develop a framework for two-way content flow between the magazine and the blog. A rising tide raises all ships, and just because an article doesn't find the right home in the magazine does not mean that it is not a valid discussion piece meriting dissemination. Therefore, beginning shortly, authors who submit to Proceedings whose articles are not accepted for publication will be invited to submit to the blog team for editorial assistance and publication. At the same time, blog authors whose pieces are well received will be invited to contribute a larger, more comprehensive piece to Proceedings Magazine. Our essay contest winners will also begin to have entries published on the blog, and we will eventually sponsor online-only essay contests. Combined with other events, we hope broaden naval discussion by encouraging more people to write, speak out, and be heard.
The online blogging forum presents unique technological affordances compared to traditional mediums. In thinking about the implications of the blog's digital existence, we were forced to reflect on how the digital has altered the form and practice of naval discourse more broadly. By extension, we were prompted to contemplate how the digital space has fundamentally altered naval disciplines. Therefore, as our first effort, we will be launching a conversation starting May 3rd about the Navy and cyber, and how this discussion should be framed and shaped.
Why May 3rd? On that date in 1997 IBM's Deep Blue began a 6 game re-match with chess champion Garry Kasparov. Although Kasparov won this match, an apparent bug in Deep Blue caused it to make a move that puzzled Kasparov. American statistician Nate Silver believes that "Kasparov had concluded that the counterintuitive play must be a sign of superior intelligence. He had never considered that it was simply a bug." His confidence shaken, Kasparov would go on to lose the series, marking the first time under tournament conditions a computer had defeated a reigning world chess champion.
Deep Blue's name is particularly appropriate for conversation about the Navy's cyber domain, and this comes on the heels of the launch of the concept of all-domain access within the new maritime strategy. We already have a few articles ready in rough draft form, and have been in conversations with leaders at all levels in the naval cyber realm. We invite you to submit an article between 800 and 1000 words that would help shape the conversation on how we integrate the navy and the cyber domain.
In the next week we will announcing our revised blog submission policies and instructions on how to submit posts for publication. Whether you are a member of the nation's Naval service, or an armchair admiral, the groundswell of naval thought is palpable, and we hope you will put pen to paper or open your laptop to join it.
Chris O'Keefe is an active duty naval officer who spends much of his spare time working to foster professional naval discourse by helping and encouraging current and future thinkers and writers.
Please join us on Sunday 29 March 2015 at 5pm, EDT for Midrats Episode 273: Partnership, Influence, Presence and the role of the MSC:
This week we will return to the "unsexy but important" topic, specifically that of "alternative naval platforms and missions."
In part, the concepts that underlay Jerry Hendrix's "Influence Squadrons" are in practice on a smaller scale today. In most cases they are being conducted using Military Sealift Command assets and the Navy Reserve.
To focus on this part of our maritime power, our guest for the full hour will be Commander Chris Rawley, USNR. President of Periplus Holdings in his day job, he is also Commanding Officer of the Military Sealift Command Afloat Mission Command and Control Units in the Navy Reserve, in addition to being Vice President of the Center for International Maritime Security.
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Seven miles had never appeared as long as they did that day. Just a few days before, the two friends had expected that their journey home would be joyful and full of good memories. But instead of recounting tales of fellowship and feasts, they were downcast and sad. Unexpected tragedy had replaced all celebration. Now … [Click to read more …]
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Key Thought : Should we, as Christians, take advantage of personal stories in the form of movies, TV, books, magazines, and personal testimonies to help others understand God?. Teaching plan for Discipling Through Metaphor January 6, 2014] 1. Have a volunteer read 2 Samuel 12:1-7. a. Ask class members to share a thought on what the … [Click to read more …]
Read Matthew 13:1-30. What was Jesus teaching His audience about discipleship? What lessons can modern Christians derive from these metaphors? Christ's parable of the sower is familiar to many readers. The setting for the story was commonplace for an agrarian society, something to which Jesus' listeners could easily relate. The connection with discipleship is obvious. … [Click to read more …]
Read Matthew 7:24-27. What do these verses contribute to our understanding of Christian discipleship? Why do you think Jesus used this example from nature to teach such a crucial truth? Modern literate societies take literacy for granted. However, even today, numerous nonliterate societies exist. Throughout ancient history literacy was the exception rather than the rule. … [Click to read more …]
Read 2 Samuel 12:1-7, Isaiah 28:24-28, Jeremiah 13:12-14, and Ezekiel 15:1-7. How do these parables and allegories expand our understanding of God's relationship with humankind? Which objects or settings utilized by these prophets later appear in Christ's parables? As we can see, Nathan tells a parable in order to disguise the real purpose of his … [Click to read more …]
Read for This Week's Study: 2 Sam. 12:1-7, Isa. 28:24-28, Matt. 7:24-27, 13:1-30, Luke 20:9-19. Memory Text: Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: I will open my mouth in parables, I … [Click to read more …]
Farmer Hildo arrived in the sleepy town in central Brazil and thanked the man who had given him a ride. He lifted his small bag of clothes and box of herbal medicines from the cargo area of the truck and stepped to the side of the dirt road. Hildo lived far from town and came … [Click to read more …]
Further Study: Read Ellen G. White, Bible Teaching and Study, pp. 190-192, in Education; The Walk to Emmaus, pp. 795-801, in The Desire of Ages; Thessalonica, pp. 221-230, in The Acts of the Apostles. Christ in His ministry had opened the minds of His disciples to these prophecies. . . . Peter in preaching Christ … [Click to read more …]

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text: Mondelez International Company Profile (NASDAQ:MDLZ) Analyst RatingsEarningsDividendsInsider TradesCompany ProfileSocial ActivityToday's Chart Consensus Ratings for Mondelez International (NASDAQ:MDLZ) (?) The ratings breakdown includes the most recent rating from each analyst that has rated the stock within the last twelve months. The ratings score is a calculation of the average number of sell, hold, buy and strong buy ratings (0-1.5 = Sell, 1.5-2.5 = Hold, 2.5-3.5 = Buy, >3.5 = Strong Buy). The consensus price target is a mean average of the most recent price target set by each analyst that has set a price target for the stock in the last twelve months.Ratings Breakdown: 1 Sell Rating(s), 3 Hold Rating(s), 10 Buy Rating(s)Consensus Rating:Buy (Score: 2.64)Consensus Price Target: $46.69 (5.33% upside) Analysts' Ratings History for Mondelez International (NASDAQ:MDLZ) Show: All Ratings For This Stock Only the Most Recent Rating From Each Brokerage DateFirmActionRatingPrice TargetActions9/16/2015JPMorgan Chase & Co.Boost Price TargetOverweight$49.00 -> $50.00 8/24/2015NomuraBoost Price TargetReduce$31.00 -> $35.00 8/13/2015Canaccord GenuityReiterated RatingHold$38.00 -> $44.00 7/31/2015Deutsche BankBoost Price Target$49.00 7/31/2015Citigroup Inc.Reiterated RatingHold$41.00 -> $48.00 7/31/2015Goldman SachsDowngradeBuy -> Neutral$43.00 -> $46.00 7/31/2015RBC CapitalBoost Price TargetOutperform$43.00 -> $49.00 7/29/2015Deutsche BankReiterated RatingBuy$46.00 -> $49.00 7/20/2015NomuraBoost Price TargetReduce$29.00 -> $31.00 7/2/2015Societe GeneraleReiterated RatingBuy$46.00 -> $55.00 7/2/2015BarclaysReiterated RatingOverweight$44.00 6/16/2015Societe GeneraleBoost Price TargetBuy$46.00 6/12/2015BMO Capital MarketsUpgradeMarket Perform -> Outperform$42.00 -> $47.00 6/8/2015Credit SuisseBoost Price TargetOutperform$42.00 -> $48.00 6/5/2015Sanford C. BernsteinReiterated RatingOutperform$46.00 -> $50.00 6/1/2015Deutsche BankBoost Price TargetBuy$43.00 -> $44.00 5/9/2015Canaccord GenuityReiterated RatingHold$36.00 -> $38.00 5/7/2015BMO Capital MarketsReiterated RatingMarket Perform$39.00 -> $42.00 5/5/2015Morgan StanleyReiterated RatingOverweight$42.00 4/30/2015Deutsche BankUpgradeHold -> Buy$36.00 -> $43.00 4/29/2015Canaccord GenuityUpgradeHold$36.00 2/19/2015Canaccord GenuityReiterated RatingHold$36.00 2/19/2015Deutsche BankReiterated RatingHold$36.00 2/6/2015Deutsche BankLower Price TargetHold$36.00 -> $35.00 1/20/2015Canaccord GenuityUpgradeSell -> Hold 1/13/2015NomuraSet Price TargetSell$31.00 -> $30.00 1/12/2015Citigroup Inc.DowngradeBuy -> Neutral 11/6/2014JPMorgan Chase & Co.Reiterated RatingOverweight$42.00 -> $44.00 11/6/2014RBC CapitalBoost Price TargetOutperform$40.00 -> $43.00 11/6/2014Credit AgricoleUpgradeUnderperform -> Buy 10/27/2014RBC CapitalUpgradeSector Perform -> Outperform$40.00 10/22/2014Credit SuisseReiterated RatingFocus List 9/17/2014Societe GeneraleUpgradeHold -> Buy$40.00 -> $43.00 8/7/2014Citigroup Inc.Reiterated RatingBuy$44.00 -> $43.00 8/7/2014BMO Capital MarketsReiterated RatingMarket Perform$41.00 -> $39.00 8/7/2014JPMorgan Chase & Co.Lower Price Target$42.00 -> $38.00 7/30/2014Deutsche BankReiterated RatingHold$34.00 -> $35.00 7/17/2014NomuraBoost Price Target$31.00 -> $33.00 5/19/2014Societe GeneraleBoost Price Target$36.00 -> $40.00 5/14/2014Morgan StanleyBoost Price TargetOverweight$37.00 -> $42.00 5/8/2014Bank of AmericaReiterated RatingBuy$37.00 -> $44.00 5/8/2014RBC CapitalBoost Price TargetSector Perform$36.00 -> $40.00 5/8/2014Credit SuisseUpgradeNeutral -> Outperform$42.00 4/8/2014NomuraInitiated CoverageReduce$31.00 3/25/2014Citigroup Inc.Boost Price Target$39.00 -> $40.00 3/10/2014JPMorgan Chase & Co.Boost Price TargetOverweight$39.00 -> $40.00 3/5/2014Canaccord GenuityBoost Price TargetSell$26.00 -> $28.00 2/13/2014Credit SuisseReiterated RatingNeutral$37.00 -> $35.00 2/13/2014Jefferies GroupBoost Price Target$33.00 -> $35.00 1/31/2014Societe GeneraleInitiated CoverageHold 1/30/2014Societe GeneraleInitiated CoverageHold 1/9/2014Credit SuisseDowngradeOutperform -> Neutral$36.00 12/4/2013Goldman SachsReiterated RatingBuy$37.00 11/25/2013RBC CapitalInitiated CoverageOutperform -> Sector Perform$36.00 11/7/2013JPMorgan Chase & Co.Lower Price TargetOverweight$38.00 -> $37.00 11/7/2013Janney Montgomery ScottBoost Price TargetNeutral$31.00 -> $32.00 11/7/2013Deutsche BankLower Price TargetHold$34.00 -> $32.00 11/7/2013Stifel NicolausDowngradeBuy -> Hold$34.00 10/11/2013Credit SuisseReiterated RatingOutperform (Data available from 10/8/2013 forward) Earnings History for Mondelez International (NASDAQ:MDLZ)DateQuarterConsensus EstimateActual EPSRevenue EstimateActual RevenueRelease LinkConference CallActions7/30/2015Q215$0.39$0.47$7.50 billion$7.66 billionViewListen 4/29/2015Q115$0.38$0.41$7.75 billion$7.80 billionViewN/A 2/11/2015Q414$0.44$0.47$9.08 billion$8.83 billionViewN/A 11/5/2014Q314$0.39$0.50$8.39 billion$8.34 billionViewN/A 8/6/2014Q214$0.39$0.40$8.65 billion$8.44 billionViewN/A 5/7/2014Q114$0.34$0.39$8.64 billion$8.64 billionViewN/A 2/11/2014Q413$0.44$1.00$9.60 billion$9.49 billionViewN/A 11/6/2013Q313$0.41$0.41$8.56 billion$8.47 billionViewN/A 8/7/2013Q2 2013$0.35$0.37$8.64 billion$8.60 billionViewN/A 5/7/2013Q1 2013$0.34$0.34$8.68 billion$8.74 billionViewN/A 2/13/2013Q4 2012$0.38$0.36$9.71 billion$9.50 billionViewListen 11/7/2012Q312$0.36$0.37$8.64 billion$8.33 billionViewN/A (Data available from 1/1/2011 forward) Dividend History for Mondelez International (NASDAQ:MDLZ)AnnouncedPeriodAmountYieldEx-Dividend DateRecord DatePayable DateShare7/23/2015$0.179/28/20159/30/201510/14/2015 5/21/2015quarterly$0.151.49%6/26/20156/30/20157/13/2015 2/20/2015quarterly$0.151.62%3/27/20153/31/20154/13/2015 12/4/2014quarterly$0.151.56%12/26/201412/31/20141/15/2015 8/6/2014quarterly$0.151.68%9/26/20149/30/201410/14/2014 5/21/2014quarterly$0.141.5%6/26/20146/30/20147/14/2014 2/26/2014quarterly$0.141.65%3/27/20143/31/20144/14/2014 12/10/2013quarterly$0.141.64%12/27/201312/31/20131/14/2014 8/7/2013quarterly$0.141.71%9/26/20139/30/201310/15/2013 5/21/2013quarterly$0.131.64%6/27/20137/1/20137/15/2013 3/13/2013quarterly$0.131.83%3/27/20134/1/20134/15/2013 12/10/2012quarterly$0.131.99%12/27/201212/31/20121/14/2013 (Data available from 1/1/2013 forward) Insider Trading History for Mondelez International (NASDAQ:MDLZ)Transaction DateInsider NameTitleBuy/SellNumber of SharesAverage Share PriceTotal TransactionActions2/25/2015Nelson PeltzDirectorBuy270,871$36.94$10,005,974.74 2/19/2015Nelson PeltzDirectorBuy915,000$36.98$33,836,700.00 2/13/2015Joseph NeubauerDirectorBuy25,000$37.09$927,250.00 8/19/2014Jean E SpenceEVPSell55,885$35.90$2,006,271.50 6/6/2014James KehoeSVPSell24,777$38.16$945,490.32 8/20/2013Lewis BoothDirectorBuy6,470$30.90$199,923.00 2/22/2013Fredric G ReynoldsDirectorBuy38,000$26.90$1,022,200.00 (Data available from 1/1/2013 forward) About Mondelez International Mondelez International, Inc. is a snack food and beverage company. The Company manufactures and markets snack food and beverage products for consumers in approximately 165 countries around the world. The Company offers its brands in five product categories: biscuits (including cookies, crackers and salted snacks); chocolate; gum and candy; beverages (including coffee and powdered beverages), and cheese and grocery. It has a portfolio of around 58 brands, which include nine billion dollar brands: LU, Nabisco and Oreo biscuits; Cadbury, Cadbury Dairy Milk and Milka chocolates; Trident gum, and Jacobs coffee and Tang powdered beverages. It has operations in Latin America, Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EEMEA), Europe and North America. The Company's products are sold to supermarket chains, wholesalers, supercenters, club stores, mass merchandisers, distributors, convenience stores, gasoline stations, drug stores, value stores and other retail food outlets. Headlines: (10/7) Mondelez, BlackRock to Allow Holders to Nominate for Board (10/2) Mondelez (MDLZ) Stock Falls On European Unit Sale Speculation (10/6) Mondelez International Downgraded by Zacks (MDLZ) (10/1) Mondelez International Inc (MDLZ) Pops 3.2% for October 02 (10/6) Investors Buy Mondelez International on Weakness (MDLZ) (10/2) Hedge Funds Like The Moves This International Consumer Staples Giant Is Making (10/6) Zacks: Analysts Anticipate Mondelez International to Post $0.40 Earnings Per Share (NASDAQ:MDLZ) (10/5) Mondelez (MDLZ) Shares Rise on Reports of Another Spin-Off (10/1) Mondelez International Downgraded by Zacks to "Hold" (MDLZ) (9/28) Mondelez International Brings Oreo, the World''s No. 1 Cookie, to Russia Industry, Sector and Symbol: Sector: Consumer Goods Industry: Confectioners Sub-Industry: Packaged Foods & Meats Exchange: NASDAQ Symbol: MDLZ CUSIP: 60920710 Key Metrics: Previous Close: $43.9050 Day Moving Average: $42.69200 Day Moving Average: $40.97P/E Ratio: 34.99P/E Growth: 2.49Market Cap: $71.43BCurrent Quarter EPS Consensus Estimate: $1.79 EPS Additional Links: View MDLZ on Google FinanceView MDLZ on Yahoo FinanceView MDLZ's Company Profile on ReutersSearch for Mondelez International Inc on Google Mondelez International (NASDAQ:MDLZ) Chart for Thursday, October, 8, 2015


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per TD the short interest on this stock is under 5%, am I reading that correct?
Does anyone really believe those short numbers to be accurate. Naked shorting is a key to destroying stocks so I suspect LINE short is much higher than reported. It allows the trash to work behind the scenes to capitalize on media efforts to drive stock pricing down.
Shares available to short at Interactive Brokers have increased by 1 million shares in the past week.
Sentiment: Buy
per finviz 4.92%
tks - seems really low for this action. Must mean institutions are bailing more than manipulation.


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Erin Andrews danced her way to the finals in the 10th season of Dancing with the Stars, and now the sportscaster has some advice for the new cast.
"Just really enjoy it and take it all in," Andrews, 33, told PEOPLE over the phone recently. "There's a day that you're going to practice and your body hurts and you're so tired you can't even think about performing another dance, but when it's over, you miss it a lot."
While it's no surprise the ESPN reporter is rooting for former partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy, there's one newcomer she's hoping will take home the mirror-ball trophy.


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It's said that frogs are a sign of a healthy garden. The season started here with a few frogs hopping among my plants this spring. Then I noted a few more of the spotted green amphibians known as Northern Leopard Frogs in my water feature and a smaller fountain. I was so glad to see them already established and thriving in my new landscape.
Then I happened to look down into the window well located alongside the raised beds of my kitchen garden. Eight feet down I counted eight frogs sitting on the pebbles at the bottom of the well by my son's bedroom. Heading to the basement I looked out the window at below ground level and counted the frogs again, only to see the dead leaves shiver with the possibility of even more frogs hiding underneath them.
Thinking like a human I worried that these frogs all hopped into the window well and became trapped, unable to get out. I started to calculate frogs per square inch, concerned that the supply of insects and spiders might run low. But how to help them out? Or were they happy in this damp buggy haven?
I lowered a nearby vine into the well without success. Next I placed a ladder into the hole thinking they could hop out on the steps. No takers though. Around this time my son came home between his summer job and college starting. We discussed the frog removal issue. He was glad I abandoned my original plan to open window and herd them into a plastic bin. There could have been a few escapees in his room.
He came on board when they started flinging themselves against his window every time it rained.
Enter the frog wranglers! My husband and son gently scooped frogs out of the window well with a long handled rake. Hours later the frogs were back in the window well. And there they remain. However the numbers change, five one day, twelve another. The population might be steady with some hiding under the leaves. Some are brown now rather than the bright green shade. Are they changing colors? Or is there a spectrum of colors among the frogs in the garden? Lots of froggy questions.
As cold weather approaches I'm left wondering what the frogs will do. Meanwhile I'm proud to know that frogs are so plentiful in my garden. Biodiversity in the garden is always my goal. I don't use pesticides hoping that beneficial insects and natural controls maintain a healthy balance in my garden. The wealth of frogs tells me I'm doing something right.
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Are you keeping up with your basil, is your pinching on par with the herb's prolific leaves and spiky flowers that seem to appear overnight? Better get going on some pesto.
No longer an exotic condiment, pesto is everywhere, but that's not exactly a good thing. You see good pesto is hard to find. The best pesto happens at home.
There are lots of putzy pesto recipes out there. Many add an ingredient here, an extra step there, in an attempt to disguise the fact that the lovely green stuff is not that complicated. In fact it's dead simple.
I go one further and take out a few steps and leave only the essential elements.
This pesto is meant to be enjoyed or frozen immediately.
Easy Pesto Recipe
2 cups packed basil leaves
2 cloves garlic
1/4 cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano (hard parmesan cheese)
1/4 cup pine nuts
At this point many people recommend adding salt, I think the cheese is salty enough. Some suggest lemon juice, I don't see the need. Others add Italian parsley, walnuts, etc. Why fix something that ain't broke?
I put all this into the food processor, I even grate the cheese right into the bowl to save on dirty dishes. I pulse and bounce the mixture until it's a coarse to smooth consistency according to how I like it.
If I'm serving it right then, I go ahead and add extra virgin olive oil from a mere drizzle to up to a 1/2 cup depending upon the dish. If I'm freezing it, I omit the olive oil. You see I'll add it when it's thawed for serving later. Leaving out the oil it can be frozen in flat plastic freezer bags, none of that fussy freezing into ice cube containers.
I press the air out of the bags until they're relatively flat so they fit into the smallest of nooks and crannies of the freezer. I can then use the entire package for pastas or just break off bits to add to soups and salads.
The best part about this pesto recipe is during the middle of winter when I crave that fresh green fragrance and sharp flavor of pesto and I think I've run out. Somehow, some way one of the slender bags slips down behind the ice cream carton and magically materializes at my moment of need.
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Can you freeze bell peppers? Certainly. There are several ways but I like this quick and easy method I found on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln website. It's the same as the one I use to freeze berries so I savor summer even in the snowy winter.
I've been waiting patiently for my bell peppers to turn that gorgeous shade of red that gives color and sweetness to any recipe. Imagine my disappointment when I noticed that the plant was so weighed down with beautiful bells that a branch split. That meant I had to get in gear to save these veggies.
Tray freezing is a technique I'm already familiar with, using it for preserving blueberries, strawberries and raspberries from the farmer's market. You freeze the produce on a baking sheet in a single layer. Once frozen you put it in a freezer bag, so the individual pieces or berries don't stick together. It's better for food safety and quality.
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You can cut the peppers in strips or dice, however you'll want to prepare them for the intended dish. To avoid that messy moment when the seeds go everywhere I simply cut around the stem, down all four sides. You are left with the core and most of the seeds, just toss it out. There may be a few seeds to pick out.
I cut my peppers in strips, I can always dice them if needed when I go to use them. Place them in a single layer and let freeze. Once frozen you can pop them into freezer bags. Use within a year from freezing. Easy, huh?
Follow the pics to see how simple the tray freezing method can be.
Posted on 08/20/2014 at 09:03 AM in Edible Landscapes, Food and Drink, Recipes from the Garden, Savor, Summer Garden, Veggies | Permalink | Comments (5)
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What's blooming? It's more like what's buzzing, and fluttering for this Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in August 2104!
It's no secret that The Garden Buzz is all about a lively garden. I've always believed a garden isn't really alive unless there are lots of creatures about. Everyone is concerned about pollinators and people are just now coming to realize, what gardeners have known all along, how important a role they play in our gardens and lives.
While I'm at it, I'd love to invite you to join me at #pollin8rchat. It's a Twitter Chat where we bring together people, plants and pollinators. If you're not on Twitter please consider it, it's lots of fun and a fountain of knowledge and knowledgeable people. Join #pollin8rchat to learn lots about how you can attract and support pollinators. Email me if you have questions about how to participate.
Meanwhile enjoy the blooms and the busy bees and butterflies!
Posted on 08/15/2014 at 10:43 AM in Bees, Birds, Blogging, Bloom, Butterflies, Flowers, Flutter, Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, Pollinators, Summer Garden | Permalink | Comments (6)
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Is it a weed or a wildflower? How do you make the call?
When I'm weeding my yard and I come upon an unfamiliar set of leaves, do you do like me and let it be for a bit? Wondering what this uninvited but determined plant will become? I do like horticultural surprises. Will it be a delightful wildflower blown by the wind only to serendipitously land in your garden? Or will be a seedy, rhizomatous monster set on world domination, taking down your garden with it? How do you handle this gardening dilemma?
We've all seen those cute little quotes about how a weed is a plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered. And I'm the first to tell you, there's almost always two sides to the story. My most common example is the dandelion. While it's a lawn lover's nightmare, bees count on it as a first source of nectar in spring.
Weed or wildflower? Hoary Vervain, Verbena Stricta, just starting to bloom
This little darling showed up as weeds seem to do, right next to something it resembled. Have you noticed this phenomenon? As a young seedling it sort of looked like the sage it sat next to. So I let it go. As it grew taller I grew more curious and let it bloom. It turned out to be a wildflower called hoary (that refers to the gray fuzz on the young plant) vervain. It's a wildflower that can re-seed and form colonies but is considered pretty harmless. Bonus: It's a larval plant host for Buckeye butterflies.
Buckeye butterfly nectaring on sedum
Are you planting for pollinators? Interested in learning more about all of these tiny but important creatures? Consider joining me on #pollin8rchat! I host this Twitter chat every Tuesday at 8pm CT. Don't know how to participate? Email me and I'll run you thru the basics.
Weed or WIldflower? Verbascum thapsus, or common mullein
And then there's these guys. Mullein. They show up looking like lamb's ears innocent cousin with those cute fuzzy leaves. You see them growing on roadsides or places where the soil has been recently disturbed. Mullein is an introduced species, originally from Europe. Like lots of other "exotic" plants it was brought to America by early settlers who valued it for the herb's medicinal properties.
The fuzzy leaves aren't as soft as lamb's ears
One single mullein can produce hundreds of thousands of seeds, therefore earning it the title of invasive meaning it can crowd out and displace native plants. Why have I let it grow, in my newly planted landscape, no less? I actually weeded out all but three of the plants. I like the plant's architectural quality, but it is close to forming seeds so after tomorrow they are on my to-do list. As in to-done!
The single buds never bloom at the same time
I've loved watching their candelabra-like stalks reach for the sky. Ants and wasps have scaled and explored the tall spires. The single blooms never bloom all at once, which makes it kind of ornery from a decorative sense. Funny it turns out, they are quite a conversation piece, people walking by always ask...and what are those?
I'm tempted to let them form seeds and watch the birds go after them but I know better. The goldfinches will have to remain content with stripping the petals from my zinnias so they can reach the seeds!
Have you face a similar quandary with a wildflower/weed? What do you do?
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I saw the saddest veggie garden today. My heart went out to it. I know its gardener meant well, but the good intentions were lost on this garden.
It looked more like a prison for plants than a place to grow food. I'm sure the heavy coat of landscape fabric was meant to control weeds, perhaps warm the soil. Instead the plants stuck stiffly out of the holes, properly spaced but awkward and fruitless. It was almost like each veggie plant was being forced to wear a scratchy turtleneck in the hot summer heat. That fabric may be permeable but those plants looked thirsty too. And those bricks, they had a threatening air about them.
I couldn't help but think about how happy the veggies looked back home in my garden. My veggies are planted a little close, so much that they hug each other. There is co-mingling. Errant bean tendrils twist 'round zinnia stems. Limbs loaded with tomatoes spill over the edges. Cucumber vines furnish ramps for ants to ascend. There are lots of bees, bugs and other lively creatures acting out the circle of life, pollinating the blooms and keeping any damage in check. There's color too.
When I saw that sad little veggie garden I wanted to throw back the black hood that was holding it back, let the soil soak up the rain. But I didn't. Instead I went home and picked beans from tangled towers and pulled up crowded carrots while the humming of bees lingered on the breeze, grateful for my harvest.
Posted on 07/23/2014 at 06:21 PM in Bees, Harvest, Veggies | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Twitter chats are twice as nice as simply tweeting. Although we can't sovle the world's problem in 140 characters, Twitter chats are a great way to connect people for a common cause. My cause is supporting pollinators. Why? Well I love to eat! They are responsible for every third bite we consume. And I enjoy their incredible beauty in my garden.
Join me on Tuesday, July 22 at 8PM CST and tell us about the pollinators in your garden and community, and how you welcome their presence. Learn more about attracting them and helping them to increase their numbers in the face of many threats.
You'll need a twitter account. Follow the setup steps and you're on your way. To follow the conversation, just search out the hashtag #pollin8rchat. The more the better. Buzz on over!
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Or should I say "holey" Toledo Botanical Garden, since the Japanese beetles were enjoying the beautiful gardens as much as myself. Good to know even the professionals can't escape this scourge.
I've been on the road with my husband for a combination "visit family/tag along on a work trip" jaunt to Cleveland, Toledo, Indianapolis and central Illinois before heading home to where the quickly ripening cukes and beans (and hopefully tomatoes) are waiting for me.
Our first stop was in Cleveland to see our son and his new apartment/summer job where he also attends Case Western University. The apartment is very urban and cool, and surprisingly tidy. I especially loved that the plaza just outside and facing the new Museum of Contemporary Art has gorgeous landscaping. I'm not quite sure what his job at this new startup entails but it seems terribly mathy. Impressive. And of course the Cleveland Botanical Garden was closed both days we were there.
While my husband took care of business in Toledo, I wandered the Toledo Botanical Garden and found it impressive (and hey, Cleveland... it's open everyday during daylight hours) too. I was pleased to find a balanced mixture of enclosed specialized plantings and broad expanses of natural landscape with cottages and artist studios situated here and there.
I spent several hours exploring the nooks and crannies and walking the paths to the outer reaches of the gardens taking photos along the way. I loved walking through the Grand Allee. I'm a sucker for a good allee, and this double allee of silver lindens is very special.Here's a small sampling of what I saw in case you're thinking of a visit.
(Pardon the picture size today, slow wi-fi in the hotel, wouldn't ya know)
Make sure to walk the Grand Allee
Posted on 07/16/2014 at 07:36 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date! So much going on in the garden but you'll excuse me for missing GBBD by two days due to wedding anniversary #29.
Without further ado...
Echium 'Red Feathers' with handsome spikes of reddish-pink flowers
Windowbox succulents paired with Gomphrena 'Fireworks' and rock rose
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