Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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With the Bush Administration proposing a gradual withdrawal of some 70,000 US troops from Europe to “help us fight and win these wars of the 21st century,” why did NATO recently reaffim support for keeping US nuclear weapons forward deployed…
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Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. John Edwards has taped an introduction for a Turner Classic Movies screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War classic Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The Chicago Tribune…
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Remarks by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at the Seventh Annual Space and Missile Defense Conference are now available from the Department of Defense. CDI’s Victoria Samson, who attended the gathering, noticed a mildly Orwellian editorial decision: One part of…
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In my August 6 post regarding the award of a contract to develop a hypersonic technology vehicle under DARPA’s FALCON/Common Aero Vehicle program, I neglected to mention the restrictions on the Common Aero Vehicle program that emerged from conference. The…
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Despite the recent announcement that the United States supports a fissile material cut-off treaty, the United States is still blocking adoption of a work program that would allow negotiations to begin. The new President of the Conference on Disarmament in…
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Looks like MDA is just as confused by the brackets around the $68.0 M for NFIRE as anybody else. Here’s what I can figure out: MDA will remove the Kill Vehicle (KV) from NFIRE satellite, leaving just the Tracking Sensor…
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Josh Marshall points out a discrepancy in a recent speech by John Bolton that adds to the list of “repeated, public mistatements, exaggerations and distortions of intelligence about Iran” offered by the Bush Administration: … Bolton said that the Iranians…
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Sumitra Rajagopalan, a freelance writer and Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering at the University of Montreal, has an opinion piece in the Toronto Star entitled, “The politics of space weapons.” I get a shout out, though I am quoted as…
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While criticizing missile defense opponents, Secretary Rumsfeld invoked a favorite platitude–“weakness is provocative”–and, apparently inadvertantly, implied the President’s policy in Iraq has weakened the country and encouraged terrorist attacks: “History has taught us that weakness is provocative,” Rumsfeld said. “To…
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President Bush took a cheap shot at missile defense skeptics today: I think those who oppose this ballistic missile system really don’t understand the threats of the 21st century. They’re living in the past. The Kerry campaign answered with a…
