While criticizing missile defense opponents, Secretary Rumsfeld invoked a favorite platitude–“weakness is provocative”–and, apparently inadvertantly, implied the President/’s policy in Iraq has weakened the country and encouraged terrorist attacks: “History has taught us that weakness is provocative,” Rumsfeld said. “To the extent that people see an area of weakness, they will take advantage of it, …
Missile Defense and 21st Century Threats: Terrorism or China?
by | 2004-08-18 | No Comments
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 …
