Tag: "National Defense"
Realpolitik is Back in Eastern Europe. When Does the Wall Go Up?
Hey, Poland? Czech Republic? Remeember how we said you were our allies and we’d stand behind you? Just fooling. You’re not an oppressive tyrant, so no happy diplomacy for you! PRAGUE/WARSAW (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama has told east European states he is backing away from plans for an anti-missile shield there, in a [...]
Wow. Just…Wow.
This video is impressive and just a little bit scary. It is real footage of a test-firing of an actual nuclear artillery shell we once had in our arsenal. The shell had a nominal yield of 14-kiloton punch which put it on par with the bomb we dropped on Hiroshima. By comparison, Little Boy (the [...]
Hmm…Perhaps Jane Fonda for SecDef Next?
So where might a former member of Congress who couldn’t even abide to hear that the surge in Iraq was helping us win and cuddled up to anti-American left-wing groups find a job in this New Age of Hope and Change? The Pentagon, of course!
Meet Your New Neighbors…Russian Bombers?
Yikes. Just…yikes. “There are four or five airfields in Cuba with 4,000-meter-long runways, which absolutely suit us,” Maj. Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev told Interfax. Zhikharev, who is the chief of staff of the Russian Air Force’s long-range aviation, said, “If the two chiefs of state display such a political will, we are ready to fly there.” [...]
Loose Lips Sink Budgets!
Huh. I thought this was going to be the Administration of Transparency and Openness. The Obama administration has directed defense officials to sign a pledge stating they will not share 2010 budget data with individuals outside the federal government. In an undated non-disclosure agreement obtained by Defense News, the administration tells defense officials that “strict [...]
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