Avatar photoFeckless Leadership on North Korea and Iran

Rose Gottemoellar has a spot-on letter to the FT about Bush’s leadership, or lack thereof, on North Korea and Iran issues: Bush showed lack of leadership over N Korea and Iran policy Financial Times, October 7 2004 03:00 From Ms Rose Gottemoeller. Sir, I am in complete agreement with Amity Shlaes (“Bush has it right …

Avatar photoBlinding Satellites

The Pentagon often issues dire sounding warnings like : “The Soviets have … at least one ground-based laser, also at Sary Shagan, that may have sufficient power to damage some unprotected satellites in near-earth orbits.” “China already may possess the capability to damage, under specific conditions, optical sensors on satellites that are very vulnerable to …

Avatar photoNuclear Weapons: Lost & Found

One of my favorite cocktail party gambits is to explain that the United States lost nuclear weapons all the time during the Cold War, including one off the coast of Georgia in 1958. After a moment of awkward disbelief, I can deftly lighten the mood with a Deliverance joke or two. So I was amused …

Avatar photoMarston.Blogspot.com

One of the nice things about living in Washington is meeting interesting people. I was lucky enough to meet Brett Marston, though under the worst possible circumstances. Brett has a blog focusing on “law and politics worldwide, etc.” He made a kind comment about my person and blog; this is my attempt to return the …