American medicine is a big, rich industry of stellar accomplishment and stratospheric social status. It is thus also a classic honey pot for swindlers or the less-than-ideally scrupulous–some with medical degrees, others with cynical business minds, more than a few with both. Consumers of this industry’s service are often desperate for it and enthralled by […]
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Lockheed Martin’s THAAD antimissile system will get a showcase deployment in South Korea, despite generic technical problems that countless billions of dollars and decades of development have yet to solve. Like other elements in the Army (Navy, too) Ballistic Missile Defense suite, THAAD is a political defense program whose technical shortcomings are perennially underestimated or […]
Two “tourists” may learn the hard way next year why NASA depended on military fighter pilots with thousands of hours of cockpit time when it sent humans into outer space. Finding billionaires to stage the round-the-moon excursion (Elon Musk) and buy tickets (so far unnamed) is no problem–Earth has always harbored plenty of nuts with […]
The last time the Pentagon literally had more money than it knew what to do with was during Ronald Reagan’s debauched defense build-up, which included such contrived dollar-binge programs as the “Star Wars” antimissile system and a 600-ship Navy. The term bow wave was used by policy analysts and journalists to describe the enormous backwash […]
In the first months of the Third Reich, after gaining the Chancellorship in January 1933, one of the first actions of the Führer against German liberal traditions was to shut down the free press. Independent newspapers were replaced with media under direct National Socialist control. President Trump does not have such power, yet, […]
The legal military coup d’état that has placed generals, active or very recently retired, in top civilian national security leadership roles at the Pentagon and White House was solidified today with Herbert Raymond McMaster’s appointment as NSC advisor. Widely greeted in the press as a “soldier-scholar,” he earned the latter designation presumably via a PhD […]
News that American warplanes fired depleted-uranium (DU) rounds at Islamic State oil tanker trucks in the Syrian desert in 2015 raises the question of um, why? This specialized cannon ammunition was designed to pierce heavily armored combat vehicles such as tanks and troop carriers, based on the high school physics lesson that the force of […]
When Phyllis Schlafly visited Johns Hopkins in 2005 as part of a campus speakers series organized by undergraduates, she tried to bill herself as a “civil rights activist.” This prompted a quick call by me to the organizers, explaining how they were about to make Martin Luther King Jr. roll over so hard in his […]
For anyone enamored of the expanding universe of “alternative facts,” the Air Force/Lockheed-Martin F-35 program is an endless summer. Donald Trump evidently smelled the roses and today announced $600 million of cost savings for the next production run, called Lot 10. But in the topsy-turvy world of F-35 development, where the technology never works as […]
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