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Navy Hits USAF On Satellite Acquisition (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL 17 MAR 08)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy has told lawmakers it fears being short-changed when cuts are made to over-budget spy satellite programs run by the Air Force.
In unusually blunt testimony, Rear Adm. Kenneth Deutsch, director of warfare integration in the Navy’s communications networks office, raised [...]

Thought this one was worth posting. Looks like General Chilton might be coming around to a warfighter’s view of space. Not a bad thing to have happen to a former Shuttle astronaut now in charge of the nation’s Strategic Command. And Mike Vickers always knows what he is talking about.
The New Art of War By [...]

Jim Oberg has another great take on “Sense, nonsense, and pretense about the destruction of USA 193” in The Space Review.

Jeremy Hsu of Imaginova penned an article for Space News: “Space Arms Race Heats up Overnight.” A few choice bits (my emphases):
“It was an unfortunate choice by the United States that seems to have been unnecessary. The fact is that satellites fall from space all the time and the risk of it was fairly minimal,” [...]

I received this technical analysis (Forden analysis) by MIT’s Geoffrey E. Forden regarding the US Navy’s proposed shootdown of USA 193. Forden’s attempts at objectivity are laughable, but the commentary that accompanied his e-mail shows the ethical vacuity of his school of thought. Better to let some folks die than sully pristine outer space with the possibility of conflict [...]

Lots of good stuff today. I’ve been frozen out of my computer since the last post (DoD security is ensuring all its employees aren’t wasting the government’s money by playing video games or gambling off-shore while they are on company time–now that college football and the NFL are done for the year, fantasy games are [...]

I have been out and about, speaking on space and various subjects, and so apologize for the lack of updates (again).
If you are not familiar with the e-Parliament, you should take a look. The organization is doing some great work by connecting national-level elected legislators from around the world (more than 15,000 are now connected on [...]

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.
 

John Sheldon (a.k.a. Fat Scottish Bastard), my colleague here at SAASS, is turning up everywhere these days. He has a very savvy thought piece in the current Space Review:
“Something has gone wrong in articulating the mission of US space power. As someone who teaches and advocates space power for a living, it is frustrating to [...]