President Bush took a cheap shot at missile defense skeptics today: I think those who oppose this ballistic missile system really don/’t understand the threats of the 21st century. They/’re living in the past. The Kerry campaign answered with a brilliant press release asking: “Who Doesn/’t /’Understand the Threats of the 21st Century/’?” May 2001 …
Porter Goss, Crazy Man
by | 2004-08-17 | No Comments
Michael Levi recently pointed out a disturbing episode when Porter Goss/’ partisanship interfered with his professional judgment: The congressman/’s more disturbing remarks in that half-hour June call with the press addressed North Korea/’s nuclear weapons program. Goss said, “Clearly not making the progress at Yongbyon and other places because we/’ve called their bluff successfully.” On …
Chinese parasitic micro satellite 2
by | 2004-08-16 | No Comments
A Military Intelligence Failure? The Case of the Parasite Satellite (Gregory Kulacki and David Wright, Union of Concerned Scientists, 16 August 2004) is now on-line. Take a moment to read it, then imagine the humiliation for the person who wrote the Chinese counterspace section in the 2003 & 2004 editions of Chinese Military Power. I …
Chinese parasitic micro satellite
by | 2004-08-15 | No Comments
The Washington Post (Bradley Graham, “Some Question Report On Chinese Space Arms,” August 14, 2004, A14) details a bit of research by my friends Gregory Kulacki and David Wright at the Union of Concerned Scientists that should be highly embarassing to the Pentagon and intelligence community. From the people who brought you non-existent Iraq WMD …
