ABCNews.com has a story on space weaponization, with the the Near Field Infra Red Experiment as the lead (the author called me for a comment, but alas I was in Switzerland). The story even has “one senior government official and defense expert” describing the program as “crossing the Rubicon into space weaponization.” I think I …
Killings in Fallujah
by | 2004-04-01 | No Comments
This morning on CNN someone asked, angrily, “Where were all the Iraqis who support our efforts during this horrific act?” The answer to that question is not unrelated to Secretary Rumsfeld/’s flip declaration that he doesn/’t understand soft power. International legitimacy has always been, in my opinion, the key to rebuilding Iraq. My tentative guess …
Nye on Rumsfeld on Soft Power
by | 2004-03-30 | No Comments
Joe Nye has an op-ed in the Washington Post today with the story about Rumsfeld and soft-power: After the war in Iraq, I spoke about soft power to a conference co-sponsored by the Army. One of the speakers was Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. When someone in the audience asked Rumsfeld for his opinion on …
How many Chinese Nuclear Weapons Redux
by | 2004-03-30 | No Comments
In a previous post, I noted that the “NAIC estimates China has 140 nuclear ballistic missiles” including about 100 medium range ballistic missiles (MRBMs). A close look at classified documents leaked to the press suggests the number of MRBMs may be about half that. (FYI: The IC counts launchers, which are tracked using satellite imagery, …
