Yesterday we had tanks heading for Poland, today it’s nuclear warheads raining down on Guam. The New York Times seems to be foisting one old Cold War nightmare after another on its aged readership in a desperate attempt to yank the bottom line back to 1956 glory. After listening to Victor Cha,This is so cheap […]
Drew Middleton’s ghost continues to grin from its seat at the Savoy bar as his successors at the New York Times recycle his Cold War dispatches. This time it’s Steve Erlanger, who ably fills Middleton’s brogues by being one of the few men alive under 70 not educated at West Point who can talk about […]
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In a rare military-industrial megadeal that does not involve the USA, the 50-year marriage of French and Australian naval establishments that will build and maintain 12 new submarines for some 34.3 billion euros (~$39 billion) is a further escalation in the West’s nightmare of an Asian superpower. The three amorphous bugaboos that drive military budgets […]
Unusually skeptical commentary about “lie detector” exams for a U.S. government publication can be found within an April 12 report from the Congressional Research Service. The report finds (page 24):
. . . polygraph examinations are not necessary to the security clearance process. For example, no one in the legislative branch is subject to polygraph […]
Since its inception some 35 years ago, there has been nothing–zero, goose egg, zip-t-crow–good to say about the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. Okay, it is stupendously noisy, which can be fun if you’re 8 years old at an air show with your Cub Scout pack. But for $30 billion, American taxpayers might expect a bit […]
Sam Roberts continues to build his idiosyncratic pantheon in the New York Times obit section of historians-you’ve-never-heard-of with a paean to William O’Neill, who made a career out of disparaging the New Left and Sixties counterculture. “Many protesters, lacking serious reasons for being in college, resented having to study” was typical O’Neill scholarship (from Coming […]
As April 15 approaches, American taxpayers might wish to contemplate the $37.5 million in tax credits for the Northrop Grumman corporation approved by a Maryland Senate committee. The military-industrial giant’s annual revenues have been in the $25 billion range in recent years–most of it thanks to government contracts, of course–making it the fifth largest such […]
Seventy years of being a nuclear superpower have resulted in astonishing numbers of dollars spent on armaments that exist to be on perpetual standby. And then there is the nasty radiotoxic stuff that would make their actual use an act of national suicide. The White House has released a fact sheet touting the reduction of […]
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