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 …
Microsat Kinetic Kill Payload (MKKP)
by | 2004-10-06 | No Comments
A US military briefing on Space Operations describes the so-called Microsat Kinetic Kill Payload (MKKP): Mission: Destruction of Enemy Spacecraft Up to 10 can be placed in orbit in 1 SMV [Space Maneuver Vehicle, ed.] using rotary launcher Target DATA passed to MKKP while in the SMV Autonomous after launch Identifies Target Initiates hyper-velocity “tail …
On Bilateral v. Multilateral talks with North Korea
by | 2004-10-05 | No Comments
The wierdest moment of the Presidential debate was the candidates getting wonky over the merits of bilateral vs. multilateral negotiations. I was going to do my best to explain the difference, but Peter Scoblic beat me to it with an op-ed, “Why N. Korea Talks Matter So Much,” in the Los Angeles Times. Long-story short: …
The whole story about Libya
by | 2004-10-04 | No Comments
Paul Kerr notes that Newsweek (October 11, 2004) has the other shoe dropping on Administration claims about its role in disarming Libya: “We convinced Libya to disarm,” Bush said. But in fact the British played the lead role in the negotiations. And the talks succeeded only after the British managed to sideline the Bush administration/’s …
