Yet again, the strange alliance of incompetence between the Defense Department and the press creates wildly exaggerated estimates of Chinese defense spending. AFP reports that “China is more than doubling its budgeted defense spending this year as part of an aggressive military modernization strategy, including deterring any moves by Taiwan to declare independence, the Pentagon …
Defense Science Board Task Force on Future Strategic Strike Forces
by | 2004-04-22 | No Comments
I’ve just spent the entire day en route home from Beijing, so this will be short. I arrived to find an e-mail from Wade Boese at ACA pointing out some of the less sane remarks in the Defense Science Board Task Force on Future Strategic Strike Forces Study (Feburary 2004). Wade passes along this passage: …
Kill the NFIRE, No Matter What Oberg Says
by | 2004-04-22 | No Comments
Jim Oberg is wrong to dismiss the controversy over the Near Field Infra Red Experiment, which will test a Missile Defense Agency kill vehicle in space, as the result of “careless usage of provocative terminology” by the Missile Defense Agency that has “converted a fairly routine upcoming military space test into a cause celebre for …
Albania to the Rescue
by | 2004-04-20 | No Comments
Just as news of the Spanish and Honduran pullouts from Iraq was giving “false comfort to terrorists” and evil-doers the world over, Albania announces it may increase its “71-member-strong contingent patrolling the northern city of Mosul under U.S. command.” “The public commitment from Tirana was bound to be welcome news to the United States after …
