The following is the keynote presentation I delivered recently to the National Security Space Center’s Space Education Symposium:
A couple of months ago, I accompanied most of my colleagues at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies on a tour of Air Force Space Command at Peterson and Schriever Air Force Bases in beautiful Colorado [...]
John Hickman’s criticism of the failed Outer Space Treaty article is reverberating (see Eros Pace’s post below) through the blogosphere. An earlier, perhaps less well-crafted essay co-authored by John and myself appeared as “Resurrecting the Space Age: A State-Centered Commentary on the Outer Space Regime,” in Comparative Strategy 21 (Winter) 2002: 1-45. Here is an [...]
Have you guys seen this article by John Hickman yet? Ev, he’s singing your long maintained tune…
“Still crazy after four decades: The case for withdrawing from the 1967 Outer Space Treaty ”
Instapundit just posted it — should be getting a lot of attention.
The current issue of Popular Mechanics has an interesting, if not wholly credible, mea culpa by the CIA. Apparently, they were not telling the truth all along but now are coming fully clean. Right. Someone at the CIA’s department of public interactions figures we will really believe them when they give us an honest, double-dog [...]
Nice to read a national columnist who gets it. The war in Iraq should not be about reinforcing failure (the army is broken, so we need more army), but about reinforcing success. Airpower has done more for American military capability (and for positive Americanism abroad) than any other force, and it is time to put [...]
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You’ve no doubt seen it, but I am still dumbfounded by the earnestness of the immoderate environmentalists among us. Nature is our most precious resource, to be sure, but …
Check out the spot on analysis by Alex Beam of The Boston Globe, April 12 2007, published in the International Herald Tribune:
BOSTON: In anticipation of Earth Day, [...]
Jim Oberg alerted me to this article from the Russian News and Information Agency RIA Novosti:
MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has tested a thermobaric bomb that is the most powerful in the world, a top military official said Tuesday.
Known as a vacuum bomb, it uses a fuel-air explosive and can create overpressures equal to [...]
“It don’t hurt a bit to be shot in a wooden leg.” General John B. Gordon, 1863
“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” General John Sedgwick, 1864, moments before he was shot dead by a sharpshooter’s bullet in his brain.
“If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be [...]
The Man Who Drew Mice