This is a picture of the 3.5 telescope at the Starfire Optical Range, Directed Energy Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, NM. The FY 2006 President’s Budget Request includes $4.9 M for the Starfire Optical Range to “perform atmospheric compensation/beam control experiments for applications including antisatellite weapons, relay mirror …
Iraq Investigations Wankery
by | 2005-04-08 | No Comments
Although the Robb-Silberman report didn’t get into the question of Bush administration officials’ statements RE: Iraq’s supposed WMD, the Senate Intelligence Committee is supposed to be looking into the question. Supposed to be. Apparently, there’s a bit of controversy about the matter, which I wrote about here. And a reader kindly pointed me to a …
MORONS: DTIC Pulls JEL
by | 2005-04-08 | 3 Comments
Not only did DOD take down the draft doctrine documents after I posted the Doctrine for Joint Nucler Operations, but the entire Joint Electronic Library (JEL). Talk about overkill. This totally encapsulates the Rumsfeld Defense Department: Be an idiot, get called on it, and then REINFORCE the judgment by over-reacting. Anyway, it looks like Human …
DTIC Removes Draft Documents
by | 2005-04-08 | 3 Comments
It took about four days, but DTIC removed the Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations and other draft documents from its website. I downloaded the documents, however. Here are the four documents in a single, zipped file.
