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 Analysis (IPFA) and the International Security Studies Program of the Fletcher School, Tufts University. STRATCOM, …
Inside Defense Blog
by | 2005-12-12 | 2 Comments
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 year in bed and shelving Smile for more than thirty years (He finally released a …
ElBaradei Accepts Nobel Prize
by | 2005-12-11 | No Comments
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 also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats. A recent United Nations …
Will MDA Ever Attempt Another Intercept?
by | 2005-12-09 | No Comments
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 some people that have read the Independent Review Team report as suggesting that MDA should …
