It’s probably more accurate to describe mitre as a publicly funded non profit operating for public benefit like the post office or PBS.

It’s a stretch to describe it as an arm of the government.

I always say I'm only here because i'm "smarter than a monkey and cheaper than a robot" and boy has that value proposition changed recently.

powerline adapters don't have any network access do they? just a layer 1/1.5 device and that's it?

the 25 percent work in IT and know the average groundbreaking innovation is mostly marketing noise with very little substance

the conventional wisdom was always that the cold war era land battle calculus went to NATO/US because of it's well developed NCO corps. the adversary was thought to be a 'hollow' force of conscripts who lacked professionalism and had few career soldiers who were capable of leading new recruits and effectively implementing the will of higher command. This way of thinking and this manual which enshrines the thinking of the day may seem out of date and was hotly debated at the time seems to be pretty spot on judging the performance of the adversary in Ukraine.