Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Reuters is reporting that the Spanish government, in the hours after the Madrid attacks, told its ambassadors to “use any opportunity to confirm ETA’s responsibility for these brutal attacks, thus helping to dissipate any type of doubt that certain interested…
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The print edition of The Progressive has positive reviews of Paul Shambroom’s collection of photographs, Face to Face with the Bomb, and Errol Morris’ film, Fog of War. I reccomend both, especially Face to Face with the Bomb – not…
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Defense News.com (subscription) reports that MDA has delayed the Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) to early 2006. Victoria Samson wrote a nice summary for the CDI Space Security Update. NFIRE is a risk reduction effort for the space-based interceptor and…
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Tom Tomorrow has an interesting suggestion about the relationship between W.’s service record (as it were) and his Administration’s enthusiasm for all things space.
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Looks like two major Pentagon satellite programs are facing real trouble on the Hill: Asked about the Transformational Communications Satellite (TSAT) and Space-Based Radar (SBR) programs, Lockheed Martin CEO Vance Coffman told Defense News that “the question will be, how…
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Today, I am working on the dissertation chapter about Chinese nuclear deployments. Recent reports by the Council on Foreign Relations, National Resources Defense Council and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (subscription) all describe the People’s Republic of China as…
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I’ve just finished a paper for the ISA Conference in Montreal suggesting that we should support (and probably expand) Air Force Space Command proposals to provide satellite tracking data and analytic support to foreign and commercial entities. If we don’t…
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Former Iraq Survey Group head David Kay testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that “we were almost all wrong” about Iraq. He had earlier explained that the U.S. intelligence community was fooled by the “vortex of corruption” in Iraq…
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We recently (26 February 2004) torpedoed the Conference on Disarmament. After the Chinese and Russians dropped demands for negotiations on preventing an arms race in outer space, the ball was in our court. Our Ambassador to the CD, Jackie Wolcott…
