Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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John Fleck has an article on the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program in the Albuquerque Journal. John makes some headway in attempting to chart the various ratonales for the program, which has its origins in a compromise between Senator Pete Domenici…
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Olivier Minkwitz of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in German) dowloaded all the Joint Staff draft documents. He used Firefox’s downLoadThemnAll plugin, which is yet another reason to defect from MS in the browser wars.…
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The anonymous “Mr. Smith” from the Bolton hearings, if I understand Senators Kerry and Lugar correctly, is Fulton Armstrong, National Intelligence Officer for Latin America since June 2000. Here is Armstrong’s bio from an archived copy of the NIC website…
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Spaceflight Now has a longer article on the XSS-11, which the Air Force successfully launched today at 9:35 am EDT. Colonel Richard White, commander of Space and Missile System Center’s Detachment 12, stated “We can say categorically, there’s nothing that…
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The Experimental Spacecraft System (XSS)-11 is scheduled for launch from Vandenberg Air Force base between 6:34 to 7 am PDT (9:34-10:00 am EDT) today (Monday, April 11). (More) The XSS-11 (right) was scheduled to launch in mid-March, before a problem…
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Did India successfully test a two-stage thermonuclear device in May 1998? There are substantial reasons for skepticism. India claimed that it detonated three devices on 11 May 1998 at Pokhran (right)—a 43-kiloton thermonuclear explosion, a 12-kiloton fission explosion and a…
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Dan Blumenthal is a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. That is a fact. Here are a few more facts about Blumenthal’s latest screed, “Providing Arms: China and the Middle East”, which appears in Daniel Pipes’ right-wing rag, the…
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This is a picture of the 3.5 telescope at the Starfire Optical Range, Directed Energy Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, NM. The FY 2006 President’s Budget Request includes $4.9 M for the Starfire…
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Not only did DOD take down the draft doctrine documents after I posted the Doctrine for Joint Nucler Operations, but the entire Joint Electronic Library (JEL). Talk about overkill. This totally encapsulates the Rumsfeld Defense Department: Be an idiot, get…
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It took about four days, but DTIC removed the Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations and other draft documents from its website. I downloaded the documents, however. Here are the four documents in a single, zipped file.
