“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…
I notice that some fellow traveler found her way to my site with the following search string: “ken timmerman make quotes up” Timmerman recently drew my ire for a series of incredible assertions regarding the DF-31 and the CZ-2C Smart…
Today is (yet another) dissertation day, which means more puzzling inconsistencies in the work of eminent political scientist John Wilson Lewis. In “China’s Ballistic Missile Programs” (International Security 17:2, Autumn 1992, 30), he claims the original design plans for China’s…
The American Forces Press Service has a heartwarming story today about an Iraqi kitten that was adopted by a company in the 4th Infantry Division in Iraq and eventually settled into a home in the United States, entitled “Pfc. Hammer…
Yet again, the strange alliance of incompetence between the Defense Department and the press creates wildly exaggerated estimates of Chinese defense spending. AFP reports that “China is more than doubling its budgeted defense spending this year as part of an…
I’ve just spent the entire day en route home from Beijing, so this will be short. I arrived to find an e-mail from Wade Boese at ACA pointing out some of the less sane remarks in the Defense Science Board…
Jim Oberg is wrong to dismiss the controversy over the Near Field Infra Red Experiment, which will test a Missile Defense Agency kill vehicle in space, as the result of “careless usage of provocative terminology” by the Missile Defense Agency…
Just as news of the Spanish and Honduran pullouts from Iraq was giving “false comfort to terrorists” and evil-doers the world over, Albania announces it may increase its “71-member-strong contingent patrolling the northern city of Mosul under U.S. command.” “The…
China successfully sent two new satellites, Experiment Satellite I (Shiyan 1) and Nano-satellite I (Nuoxing 1), into space early Monday with a Long March II C carrier rocket, according to the People’s Daily. People’s Daily hailed the launch as a…
