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The GAO just released a shocking report, Diploma Mills: Diploma Mills Are Easily Created and Some Have Issued Bogus Degrees at Government Expense to Federal Employees, that finds “28 [GS-15 (or equivalent) and above] employees [from eight agencies] listed degrees…
I was reading the Jiefangjun Bao (PLA Daily) when I came across a most unusual column. It appears that someone felt that a CCTV program called “The Missile Brigade Commander” lacked realism. So, in case you had any questions, this…
On October 21, 2004, Dr. Arms Control Wonk will be on a panel, “Prospects for Peace and Security in Outer Space,” hosted by Jonathan Dean and the Union of Concerned Scientists at the United Nations. In addition to Ambassador Dean…
Continuing the Cuba BW thread, The Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq contains the backstory on Undersecretary Bolton’s effort to distort intelligence regarding Cuba. The New York Times contained…
After some adventures in pagination, I successfully submitted the final copy of the dissertation, The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China’s Search for Security in the Nuclear Age, today. For my defense, I dispensed with a powerpoint presentation. Edward Tufte, in…
The lead paragraph of “In Stricter Study, U.S. Scales Back Claim on Cuba Arms” in the New York Times (September 17, 2004) leads: The Bush administration, using stringent standards adopted after the failure to find banned weapons in Iraq, has…
DARPA is now running the X-37 program. A few days ago, Space News reported that NASA had turned the X-37 program over to an unnamed government agency. NASA spokesman Michael Braukus has now confirmed that DARPA was the government agency…
If you find yourself stuck in Rock Island, make sure to stop by Theo’s Java Hut in Rock Island(213 17th St. With wifi, though the staff doesn’t seem to know this) and have dinner at Duck City Bistro in Davenport…
The Defense Department has been pointing to Iraq’s use of GPS jammers to justify a much more significant investment in counterspace capabilities. No exception is today’s American Forces Press Service release under the headline, “Iraq Jamming Incident Underscores Lessons about…
Al Kamen of the Washington Post takes the piss out of the Missile Defense Agency’s Terry Little for his memo writing skills. Kamen calls a recent memo by Little, Kinetic Energy Interceptor Program Manager, “a wonderful example” of bureaucratic memos…
