Month: December 2017

Underestimating Beijing

The Pentagon’s annual report on Chinese military power–set for release today– will highlight Beijing’s continued development of land and sea-based ballistic missiles capable of hitting the United States, according to…

The Ultimate Sensor

This item, from last Friday’s on-line edition of Air Force Times, certainly caught my attention, because it highlights one of the key issues facing our military. Six years into the…

So Long, Cindy

When Cindy Sheehan first entered the public spotlight, we predicted the eventual end to her career as a celebrity/anti-war activist. Even during the heady days of “Camp Casey” in Crawford,…

Unfinished Business

We’ve written at length about the Valerie Plame affair, which began when Scooter Libby and other Bush Administration officials supposedly “outed” Ms. Plame, who was described as a “covert” CIA…

The Medical File

For better or worse, western intelligence agencies spare no expense in trying to gather information on hostile regimes and their leaders. This has led to a at least three “cottage…

Tug-of-War, Redux

Over the past couple of years, we’ve noted the growing turf battle between the Army and Air Force over the critical mission of ballistic missile analysis. Traditionally, the Missile and…

Putin's Threat

In his latest tirade against a U.S. missile defense deployment in Eastern Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to again target the continent with his country’s strategic arsenal. On…