The most fascinating aspect of the story about the contractor fired for something she wrote on her blog on Intelink is that Intelink has blogs. That wasn’t the case in March 2005 when Kris Alexander—an intelligence officer in the US Army Reserve and proprietor of the wonderful Alexander the Average—wrote this article for Wired online: …
Joseph on India
by | 2006-07-21 | No Comments
Friend of Wonk Jofi Joseph has a great op-ed in Defense News, arguing that the Administration should admit that the US-India nuclear deal trades nonproliferation interests for a strategic partnership with India, and accept Congressional efforts to limit the nonproliferation downside: … [T]he U.S. administration has made the case that this agreement accomplishes two objectives: …
China's Incredible Shrinking Missile
by | 2006-07-20 | 4 Comments
I was pleased to be quoted in a recent edition of The Economist (“Out of their silos,” June 8, 2006) saying “Chinese leaders are less worried about a pre-emptive strike by the Americans than about an accidental or unauthorised launch by a junior commander of the new missiles.” I was a little baffled, however, by …
New AS ISN
by | 2006-07-19 | 6 Comments
The White House has announced its intention to nominate John Rood as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation. (The Arizona Republic has a full writeup.) Of course, you may remember Rood from his starring turn in Dafna Linzer’s “Brady Bunch NSC” article: Much of Rood’s job includes dealing with Cold War leftovers …
