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SinpoSatBot Post Mortem

Scott LaFoy

Twitter’s Anniversary Notification has reminded me that I put together a small satellite imagery management project, SinpoSatBot, six years ago to win an argument on Twitter. It seems like a good time to do a postmortem on whether it was successful (it was!), whether it was useful (it was not!), and whether I won the …

What the F*** Do They Think the Russians are Going to Shoot at Them?!

Germany has a gap that needs to be filled in the face of Russian threats. But this time it isn’t Fulda, it is….the exoatmospheric layer of ballistic missile defenses? Jeffrey and Aaron try to understand Germany’s decision to buy the very fancy Israeli/American Arrow-3 exoatmospheric BMD system, in absense of a specific Russian missile system …

Failure to Launch

Jeffrey is back from Japan and North Korea’s satellite-turned-submarine is back from the bottom of the ocean! North Korea’s failed Chollima-1 space launcher and its payload, the Malligyong-1, failed to reach space on May 30. Jeffrey and Aaron talk about the Japanese response to the launch, the North Korean reponse to the failure, and whether or not …

Shangri-la Dialogue with Ankit Panda

Ankit Panda joins Jeffrey by the every so fancy pool at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, where they talk about competing speeches and messaging, the views on US-China competition from Southeast Asia, and about how Jeffrey didn’t make any new friends in the PLA this year. Support us over at Patreon.com/acwpodcast!