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The Washington Post has an excellent editorial today, linking the human rights abuses in Iraqi prisons with the Bush Administration’s pathological aversion to international norms and conventions: Abuses will take place in any prison system. But Mr. Rumsfeld’s decisions helped…
Working on my dissertation, I’ve noticed a strange fascination among the nuclear warfighting crowd with the idea that 20 million casualties was low enough to risk in a crisis with the Soviets. Here is a passage from Herman Kahn in…
The National Research Council recently released a study (April 2004) of the National Aerospace Initiative, a DDRE/NASA initiative to invest in hypersonics, space access, and space technology. A lot of this research is worthwhile, but a lot is also wasteful.…
Last October, Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that the U.S. Air Force ordered a Minotaur space launch vehicle to launch a classified payload in 2005. The Minotaur launch vehicle provides “low cost, reliable space launch capability in support of U.S. government…
A colleague notes this paragraph in Susan Schmidt’s review of The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity by Joseph Wilson: On the heels of Wilson’s public criticism that intelligence was…
MDA now hopes the NFIRE KV will collide with its target during the “simulated” engagement with a ballistic missile. This would, as ABC News reported, be “the first real step” towards the “unprecedented weaponization of space.” The anonymous Pentagon official…
After the Washington Post reported the intelligence community will raise its estimate of the number of North Korean nuclear weapons from “possibly two” to “at least eight”, Colin Powell tells reporters in Berlin that he is “not aware of a…
Today in the Department of Defense, Tuesday, April 27, 2004 Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld hosts an honor cordon to welcome Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini to the Pentagon at 10:30 a.m. EDT. The “post-facsist” Fini once praised…
“Citing the backing of President Bush, Sen. Arlen Specter voted Tuesday in the Republican primary, seeking a fifth term and hoping to ward off a strong challenge by Rep. Pat Toomey.” Polls close at 8:00 pm. Democrats have been torn…
In his Senate testimony, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Lawless indicated that a substantial portion of the 2004 Annual Report on the Military Power of the People’s Republic of China will be dedicated to the threat posed by Chinese…
