Russia: give preeminence to what they do and not what they say. But don’t ignore what they say. From Inside the Ring: Russia’s military is working to deploy an "impenetrable" missile-defense shield by 2020, according to Gen. Nikolai Makarov, chief of the Russian armed forces staff. Gen. Makarov was quoted in Russian news reports Monday [...]
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Russia: Missile Defense Is Bad (Unless We Do It)
Posted: January 9, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Arms Control, Missile Defense, Russia
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Forgive the formatting ugliness…
Posted: January 9, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Songs of Space and Nuclear War
The formatting “challenges” I’ve had on the blog were a maddening combination of issues which started with a new computer (Merry Christmas!). With a new machine, I had to install Firefox and then added the script blocker plug-in which I believe is capable of mangling a number of things. Next, I couldn’t find my copy [...]
Russia and the Arctic
Posted: January 9, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Energy, Norway, Pavel Baev, Rosneft, Russia, Saxprom, The Arctic
From the International Relations and Security Network (host) via the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (publisher) through Pavel K. Baev (author) working for the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). Got all that? Good. Here’s what Baev had to say (in paraphrase) about Russia’s current position regarding the Arctic: Russia now prefers a pattern of [...]
One Part of the DoD Budget that won’t be at Risk
Posted: January 8, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Air Force, Air Force One, Budget Cuts
The Air Force One part of the DoD budget.
China, Space, and WikiLeaks
Posted: January 8, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: ASAT, Assange, China, Military Buildup, WikiLeaks
Why is China hiding the cost of their defense build up? From CBS: Newly released leaked U.S. diplomatic cables claim China is probably hiding both the size of its military buildup, as well as, on occasion, its intentions. Australia’s national intelligence agency conducted a strategic assessment of China’s military spending, and concluded that the communist [...]
SpaceWonk.com: it’s for the children. Seriously, the site is under construction and all the work is being done by a homeless guy with golden pipes and only modest web building skills. So how about a little slack, eh? Suggestions welcomed. No, seriously.
The Honors Code
Posted: January 7, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Capt Honors, DADT, Fraternizatiion, Honors, Navy, USS Enterprise
This is something that must be considered: now that DADT has been rolled back, where if anywhere, is the line of demarcation for unprofessional behavior? For example, consider videographer and aspiring YouTube artist Capt Owen Honors, United States Navy. From the Weekly Standard: Obviously, Honors has dishonored himself. But it is not at all clear [...]
Utah, eh? Real estate in and around the beltway probably priced this out of the Northern Virginia/Maryland area, and with Robert Byrd having departed the fix, West Virginia somehow fell below the line as well. Instead, Utah it will be, where the NSA and Corps of Engineers have broken ground on the Utah Spy Center: [...]
Defense Spending: The Shrinkage Begins
Posted: January 6, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Defense Budgets, Defense Cuts, Robert Gates
From the Washington Post: The Pentagon will have to cut spending by $78 billion over the next five years, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday, forcing the Army and Marine Corps to shrink the number of troops on active duty and eventually imposing the first freeze on military spending since the Sept. 11, 2001, [...]
Launching — so to speak — a new website, SpaceWonk.com. Dig it if you can…
