Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had his hands full trying to set criteria for nuclear requirements at a time when the training and ethos of the Strategic Air Command called for taking the initiative and winning decisively. McNamara’s braininess, his coterie of civilian “whiz kids,” and their attachment to cost-effectiveness methods alien to the Pentagon …
Off to Japan
by | 2011-03-07 | 1 Comment
I am going to be traveling through Japan this coming week on a hectic schedule visiting a variety of Japanese facilities including Rokkasho and Japan Steel Works. Posting has been light anyway, but this week I have an excuse.
Hong Kong as Transshipment Point
by | 2011-03-03 | 5 Comments
Irene Jay Liu has a really interesting article in the South China Morning Post on Hong Kong’s role as a transshipment point (subscription only, I am afraid). The whole article is worth reading, but I really got a kick out of this email exchange between an Iranian going by “Ali” and a Taiwanese businessman, Chen …
Hello world!
by | 2011-03-03 | 19 Comments
Hello out there! Since Geoffrey Forden stopped blogging, ArmsControlWonk has been a little bit light in the ‘rocket science’ department – so Jeffrey asked me to fill that gap (frequent readers of this blog’s comment section may already have stumbled over my name here and there). Well, i’ll do what i can to round ACW …
