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Does Secretary of Defense Gates have cojones grande?

We are fools, even sheep.  Reading the newspapers provides daily proof.  For today’s example we have the Defense Department, which has avoided meaningful reform for generations by means of a sim… more →

Fabius Maximus

torture was not top secret, stop deluding yourselves — 1 comment

subversivechurch wrote 8 months ago: warning: graphic torture images below. Obama released the ’supposedly top secrect’ tortu … more →

Tags: mike, obama, Rush Limbaugh, Torture Memo, Empire, Karl Rove, CIA, abu ghraib, Salón

Does Secretary of Defense Gates have cojones grande? — 13 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 9 months ago: We are fools, even sheep.  Reading the newspapers provides daily proof.  For today’s example w … more →

Tags: Our Military, Spencer Ackerman, Winslow Wheeler, Robert Gates, Defense Department, Sheep, Brian Beutler

The economic Death Spiral of the Pentagon — 22 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 11 months ago: Today’s post provides a long, fact-filled analysis by Chalmers Johnson about the inner working … more →

Tags: Our Military, Chuck Spinney, Tom Engelhardt, Chalmers Johnson, tomdispatch, U.S. Military, Fred Reed, military spending, Congressional Research Service

What's Inside Darpa's $21 Million 'Liquid' Laser?

dajunglechemist wrote 12 months ago: Things are really beginning to heat up in the field of laser weapons. The giant Airborne Laser is fi … more →

Tags: WMD, War/Draft, Science:health, Martial Law/Police State, nwo, Energy, Defense, --darpa, Raytheon

DARPA's $21 Million 'Liquid' Laser

BBVM wrote 1 year ago: Things are really beginning to heat up in the field of laser weapons. The giant Airborne Laser is fi … more →

Tags: military industrial complex, --darpa, Läser, Airborne Laser, Raytheon, PhalanxHELLADS, Textron, Laser Weapon System, High Energy Laser

"What's wrong with the US military?", an interview with Winslow Wheeler — 25 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 year ago: I recommend reading in full this interview with one of our top defense analysts.  Winslow Wheeler is … more →

Tags: Our Military, Winslow Wheeler, Andrew Cockburn, Defense Department, congressional budget office, U.S. Military

America's Defense Meltdown, now available for free download — 7 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 year ago: This is a unique volume by a collection of authors that have never collaborated to this degree befor … more →

Tags: Grand Strategy, Our Military, Book Reviews, rge monitor, America's Defense Meltdown

Update on Anthology America's Defense Meltdown (free download) — 2 comments

don wrote 1 year ago: Update from Winslow Wheeler, the editor of America’s Defense Meltdown: A Plan for President Ob … more →

Tags: leadership, Strategy, Winslow Wheeler, Straus Reform Project, Defense Reform, America's Defense Meltdown

New date for release of America’s Defense Meltdown: Pentagon Reform for the New President and Congress

don wrote 1 year ago: We have changed the date for the release to November 19th, 2008. On Wednesday, Nov. 19, the Center f … more →

Tags: boyd, adaptability, Learning Organizations, Strategy, Professional Development, Winslow Wheeler, Defense Reform

Pentagon: $520 Million For Space Weapons

infolution wrote 1 year ago: Pentagon: $520 Million For Space Weapons Wired March 13, 2008 We all know that the Pentagon has more … more →

Tags: dick cheney, control grid, military industrial complex, DoD, Star Wars Program, --darpa, Space Weapons, Economy, Pentagon

Missile Defense: A Wrong Turn for U.S.-India Cooperation?

johnibii wrote 1 year ago: By Todd Fine Center for Defense Information March 5, 2007 Emerging from meetings in New Delhi on Feb … more →

Tags: News, Russia, missile defense, India, US, Politics


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