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…
Star-Crossed Lovers, Part II
When the Lisa Nowak scandal broke a few months ago, it was obvious that the Navy Captain (and NASA astronaut) was in a lot of trouble. After a 900-mile drive…
Don't Be So Sure
This week’s UN-mandated deadline for Iran to suspend its nuclear enrichment efforts passed with little notice, largely because the outcome was a foregone conclusion. Tehran has stated repeatedly that it…
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,…
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…
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…
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 "New" Arms Race
As we noted a couple of days ago, there’s an element of hypocrisy in Russia’s claims that limited missile defenses proposed for Eastern Europe will somehow trigger a new arms…
The Murphy Saga Continues
The Commander of the Air Force District of Washington, D.C. (AFDW) has ordered an Article 32 investigation into charges filed against the former commander of the Air Force Legal Operations…
The Invisible Enemy Within
The media is in full feeding-frenzy “mode” over the case of that Atlanta lawyer who learned he had drug-resistant tuberculosis, yet traveled overseas and somehow managed to re-enter the United…