The National Defense Strategy, released last week, strongly implies that international fora threaten to US security: Our strength as a nation-state will continue to be challenged by those who employ a strategy of the weak, using international fora, judicial processes and terrorism. That is a very strange sentence to read, sitting here in the Palais …
Geneva
by | 2005-03-20 | No Comments
I am in Geneva, attending a conference entitled Safeguarding Space Security: Preventing an Arms Race in Outer Space. Blogging could be interesting or nonexistent.
Gertz and Arkin
by | 2005-03-18 | No Comments
The Washington Post reports that Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz was fed a forged “Defense Intelligence Agency” document claiming that military analyst and Code Names author Bill Arkin was an Iraqi spy. In the course of following up the story, the Defense Department apparently told Gertz the document was not authentic. Larry DiRita told the …
Common Aero Vehicle
by | 2005-03-18 | 2 Comments
Walter Pincus penned a story on the Common Aero Vehicle in the Washington Post the other day. The gist was: The Pentagon is working to develop a suborbital space capsule within the next five years that would be launched from the United States and could deliver conventional weapons anywhere in the world within two hours, …
