RSS- Supreme Court oral arguments to be heard on April 25 about presidential immunity for official acts
- Nasa’s Voyager-1 sends usable data from deep space
- The Wondrous Oak
- Three Seas Summit: Vilnius 2024
- Tit for tat until it all goes boom
- Deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain detected on mainland Antarctica
- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
- Iran launches air attacks on Israel
- ISW on the developing Ukrainian defense industrial base and Russias strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure
- Britain? Kaput! By Walrus.
Monthly Archives: October 2005
“Deputy Dubya’s Droopy Diaper Rap”
You fell asleep on watch and let some bad guys blow us up, And when you woke you swore to pay them back. You then attacked a country that had never done us harm Which seems to indicate it’s brains … Continue reading
Renamed post – Should we fight a COIN campaign in Afghanistan?
The whole issue of counterinsurgency as a doctrine and method is alive and well after the successful application of the resurrected doctrine in Iraq. This is an old, old doctrine in the US Army. It was thoroughly worked out in … Continue reading
Posted in The Military Art
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How the “Game” is played?
In listening to the "Beltway/K St." crowd discuss the ever widening Abuse of Power scandal surrounding the Bush Administration I am struck by the profound immorality of many of the statements being made by people who have served for decades … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs
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Journalists with Security Clearances?
I had many levels of security clearance during my long government life as well as access to many "compartments" of information involving projects and intelligence "products" so dear to the state that access to them was limited to those on … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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“The Tunnel at the End of the Light”
"The Tunnel at the End of the Light" Download the_tunnel_at_the_end_of_the_light.pdf Another poem by Michael Murry Pat Lang
“The March of the Penguins”
SST2005 has in hand several reviews of recent and/or classical films. These were reviewed by Alan Farrell who resides at Lexington in the Shenandoh Valley of Virgina. Professor Farrell is a college teacher of French (ptui!) (That was a joke … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Reviews
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The Zawahiri Letter
Download letter_in_english.pdf I have read the letter in English and looked at the Arabic on a "sampling" basis and my conclusion would be that it was writen by someone who was not a native speaker of Arabic but who had … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs
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Judy, Judy…
"Ms. Miller’s revelation that she was granted a DoD security clearance while embedded with the WMD search team in Iraq in 2003.This is as close as one can get to government licensing of journalists and the New York Times (if … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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“The Government Won’t Yield To Violence?”
“Acceptance of the charter won’t open any magic doors, but it would demonstrate that the government won’t be moved by violence,” Jonathan Lindley, head of the Middle East unit at the Royal Services Institute, a London-based research organization, said in … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs
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Numbers down, what shall we do?
Even CNN is shocked by this cynical manipulation of American soldiers. Let’s see, how did they do this? First we go looking for National Guard soldiers who are stiil basically civilians and probably less inclined to the kinds of suicidal … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs
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