Author: MYLIFE

Acceptable Risk

One of the more pressing requirements facing the U.S. Air Force is the search for a new tanker aircraft, to replace its fleet of aging KC-135s and KC-10s. While the…

The VD Benefit

I somehow missed this story, which ran five days ago in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and other Scripps-Howard newspapers. But the article deserves wide attention, because it’s another example of supposedly…

Ike Heads Home

Earlier this spring, amid speculation about a possible U.S. strike against Iran, we suggested that the deployment of the USS Eisenhower battle group might be a useful indicator of our…

About Those Centrifuges

Today’s New York Times report on apparent progress in Iran’s uranium enrichment program is disturbing, in several respects. First, Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s claims that his country was moving toward “industrial”…