Adam Herbert, a senior editor at AFA Magazine, writes that Air Force Space Command is attempting to install a hair trigger in outer space: Over the years, space essentially has been a militarily benign environment. For that reason, operators had come to assume that failures were the result of equipment malfunctions – not the deliberate …
Back From London
by | 2005-01-05 | 2 Comments
I am back from London—where the steadily escalating death toll from the Asian tsunami added a somber note to the festivities. Regular postings will resume tomorrow morning. There will be no end to the ration of crap I am going to give Paul for not managing a single posting in my absence. In all fairness, …
Vacation
by | 2004-12-28 | 2 Comments
Well, folks, the UMD e-mail has been down for a couple of days and, just as it comes back tomorrow, I will be arriving in London to decompress—safely out of contact with e-mail or Bush-supporters (slim chance that I’ll run into Tony Blair). I’ll be posing as a Canadian. I won’t be posting again until …
China's National Defense in 2004
by | 2004-12-28 | 2 Comments
China has released a new white paper, China’s National Defense in 2004. An exercise in … uh … the middle of nowhere. One section in the 2002 White Paper—“National Defense Construction Structure and Organization of the Armed Forces”—has been divided into several new sections: Ch. 4 Defense Expenditure and Defense Assets Ch. 5 The Military …
