The Sound of One Mojo Clapping...

Well, it's not very often that I get to sound off regarding my own prognostication ability, but I was checking up on a post I wrote on August 10, 2005 on the strange and terrible fate of Lt. Gen. Kevin Byrnes.

After reading a post by Lindsay Bernstein at the redoubtable Majikthise blog wondering about the official explanation on the canning of Byrnes, I too became curious.

The word from on high had it that Byrnes, the head of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), was caught in an extramarital dalliance and that such exposed behavior was not in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Army and so Byrnes was summarily packed off to the Island of Misfit Flag Officers, ne'r to be seen in uniform again...

Many at the time were saying that something about that story simply did not seem right. Mark Kleinman wrote that "it did not pass the sniff test." Lindsay essentially agreed and asked if anyone had any competing theories...

I did a little net-mining and hit a vein of promising ore, which I quickly refined into cold rolled sheets of theoretical byzantine intrigue regarding a potential ruffling of feathers (as well as potentially phat stax of post military service bank) regarding control of a program called LandWarNet.

Reading the history, it looked as though Byrnes may have punked Gen. Steven Boutelle, U.S. Army's G-6, (or Chief Information Officer), regarding the future of the digital Army. Boutelle had his own program, but ended up being told to go to Congress to pimp for Byrnes' pet project instead.

Suddenly, less than a year later, Gen. Byrnes gets spaced out the airlock...

At the time, I was interested to see who then got control of LandWarNet in the wake of Byrnes' demise, saying it would auger well for my theory if it ended up back in the hands of G-6.

Well, I didn't think much of it at the time, other than being vaguely amused at my own ability to think conspiratorily and use the Internet to help me with that...

Then yesterday, the military fetishists at "Global Security" updated their LandWarNet entry, to wit:

The idea behind LandWarNet is how to best support the warfighter, the Soldier. It will give Soldiers the ability to reach up and grab that information they need. LandWarNet brings together the Active and Reserve Components and connects them into the GIG. TRADOC is still focused on the warfighting piece of LandWarNet, but now the G-6 has the overall responsibility for the infrastructure and service

I love it when a plan comes together...

mojo sends