Nixon's the One
Richard Nixon (1972) : The prospects for a coordinated two front attack on our allies by Russia and China are low both because of risks of nuclear war and the improbability of Sino Soviet cooperation. In any event, we do not believe that such a coordinated attack should be met primarily by U.S. conventional forces.
Missouri governor Jay Nixon (2014) has abandoned the curfew in Ferguson as the national guard assists the government’s response to the protests.
“Last night, Ferguson, Missouri experienced a very difficult and dangerous night as a result of a violent criminal element intent upon terrorizing the community,” Nixon said in a statement. “As long as there are vandals and looters and threats to the people and property of Ferguson, we must take action to protect our citizens.”
“The Guard’s immediate and limited responsibilities under the direction of colonel Ron Replogle of the Missouri state highway patrol, are to provide protection, and ensure the safety of our Unified Command Center, which was the target last night of a coordinated attack. The Guard will concentrate its resources on carrying out this limited mission.”
He said that with these additional resources, the law enforcement agencies already operating in Ferguson will continue to respond to the protests. Missouri national guard brigadier general Gregory Mason is overseeing guard operations in Ferguson under the overall command of the state’s highway patrol.
It does seem that the National Guard is needed given the St Louis County police's propensity to intimidate the media and continue to what can now only seem to be discoordinating(sic) efforts at disinformation, stonewalling, possible evidence tampering to the point of obstruction of justice, and exhibit only rudimentary tactical skills, much less strategic discipline. There may have been "coordinated attacks", but by whom and with what evidence? Looters? Protestors? Gangs? and if the police cannot handle this level of disorder from a "violent criminal element" operating during the period prior to the curfew, that presumably is a feature not a bug of St Louis regional crime behavior and the necessary responsibility of regional law enforcement, what good are they? There does not seem to be daily briefings about the numbers of vandals and looters engaged each evening, nor have there been the kind of wholesale arrests that seem to come with civil unrest at Occupy or at National Political Party conventions. More tragically, rank and file insubordination to the authority of Captain Ron Johnson of the MSHP seems all the more apparent if the St Louis County police and all their military equipment cannot hold a perimeter without creating more violence. There does seem to be as in
Cool Hand Luke, the PIC's archetypical cinematic representation "a failure to communicate".
In computing, the Two Generals' Problem is a thought experiment meant to illustrate the pitfalls and design challenges of attempting to coordinate an action by communicating over an unreliable link. It is related to the more general Byzantine Generals' Problem (though published long before that later generalization) and appears often in introductory classes about computer networking (particularly with regard to the Transmission Control Protocol), though it can also apply to other types of communication. A key concept in epistemic logic, this problem highlights the importance of common knowledge. Some authors also refer to this as the Two Armies Problem or the Coordinated Attack Problem.
Byzantine General Problem
The Classic Problem
Each division of Byzantine army are directed its own general
Generals, some of which are traitors, communicate each other by messengers
Requirements:
All loyal generals decide upon the same plan of action
A small number of traitors cannot cause the loyal generals to adopt a bad plan
The problem can be restated as:
All loyal generals receive the same information upon which they will somehow get to the same decision
The information sent by a loyal general should be used by all the other loyal generals
The above problem can be reduced into a series of one commanding general and multiple lieutenants problem - Byzantine Generals Problem :
All loyal lieutenants obey the same order
If the commanding general is loyal, then every loyal lieutenant obeys the order she sends
If we adhere to the kind of sovereignty desired by
Tenthers, it's not about PBO and more about the question of regional civil authority: is Jay Nixon The Weakest Link?
Country/Western Singers located in Branson will write songs about the spirited defense of the Unified Command Center located in the Northland Shopping Center henceforth renamed for the RWNJ memes: "Nearly 'Overrun" at Fort Benghazi"