Last week's NYT article on the difficulties with the Littoral Combat Ship is quite fantastic. The LCS project publicly began in November 2001, but the ship is a natural outgrowth of shifts in USN doctrine in the 1990s. Contrary to the general belief that the...
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Via Danger Room, the most awesome thing ever. From past...D’raw and Kwa-id directed their considerable strength towards lifting the strange object. “Is like … old club,” D’raw panted, “But ….
This is stuff that we all kind of know, but it's still interesting to take a look now and again... 1 United States $ 583,283,000,000 2 France $ 74,690,470,000 3.
Well, maybe not. Regarding the search for the responsible party in the "bad ammo to Afghanistan" scandal, Laura Peterson writes:The public may never really know, if a recent Government Accountability Office report is any indication. The GAO found that 42 percent of the workforce at...
Yesterday in class I showed the following:Which is the first of a three part propaganda film asserting that the United States was vulnerable to Soviet nuclear attack. Contained therein are.
This is nothing new, but it's worth revisiting now and again. For the monthly cost of the war in Iraq, conservatively estimated for our purposes at $8 billion, the Pentagon.
Via Armchair Generalist, STRATCOM Chief General Kevin Chilton is asking Congress to make a deal:But as U.S. officials look to the future, Chilton said, “What we need is a modernized nuclear weapon to go with our modernized delivery platforms that we’ve worked on and are...
This is rather a surprise....Northrop Grumman and European partner EADS, parent company of Airbus, beat out presumptive favorite Boeing for the U.S. Air Force's $40 billion, 179-plane tanker deal, according.