During this morning’s panel on Nuclear Weapons and the New Triad, former Chairman of the Defense Science Board John Foster warned of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threats, including: ChiCOMs, in the context of the 7th Fleet’s possible defense of Taiwan. I’ve…
MDA Director Trey Obering offered two thinly veiled “hypothetical” scenarios that illustrated his case for missile defense. Scenario 1: North Korea tests a nuclear weapon and a ballistic missile capable of carrying the weapon to the United States. North Korea…
I never understood why a “responsive infrastructure” was one of the three legs of the “New Triad.” Along with offenses and defenses, I always thought Command, Control and Intelligence (C2I) was the more logical candidate. It makes sense on logical…
I’ve been hearing rumblings about this concept called “Tailored Deterrence” (One also sees the cumbersome phrase Tailorable Deterrence). The concept got a relatively thorough explanation in this morning’s keynote at the IPFA-Flecter Conference by Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Policy)…
Wednesday and Thursday, I will blog from the 36th IPFA-Fletcher conference on national security strategy and policy, entitled Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Forces in 21st -Century Deterrence: Implementing the New Triad. The conference is organized by the Institute for Foreign Policy…
While the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson was working on the infamous Smile LP, he heard a copy of the Beatle’s Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Fearing that he couldn’t match the achievement, Wilson had a nervous breakdown, spending a…
Yeah, what he said: I believe it is because our security strategies have not yet caught up with the risks we are facing. The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has…
Arms Control Today asked MDA Director Trey Obering about speculation that MDA is scaling back testing to avoid further failures. Obering asserted that MDA would conduct four flight tests over the next year: ACT: Going back to testing, there are…
From today’s Secrecy News: ALTERNATIVE COVER SHEETS FOR CLASSIFIED INFO While underlying questions of secrecy and disclosure carry a potent primeval charge, the actual implementation of government secrecy policy is about as boring as it could be. In a rare…
The Union of Concerned Scientists has released a database of operational satellites in orbit: The UCS Satellite Database is a listing of operational satellites currently in orbit around the Earth. It is available as a downloadable Excel file, which is…
