Tag Archives: Military

22:09 WWII began in Poland. Why didn’t we liberate them first?

Speaking of Obama incompetency, his insistence that the war against fundamentalist terrorism is limited to fighting in Afghanistan shows he does not understand the global scope and reach of enemies like al Qaeda. Whatever the connection between Iraq and al … Continue reading

Posted in Defense, Elections, Foreign Policy, Government, Politics | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

22:04 So where was the moral obligation to Iraq?

Who would not have intervened in the Holocaust? By Obama’s spoken standard, we should have intervened in Iraq solely because he was murdering hundreds of thousands of his own people, including by the use of chemical weapons. So which is … Continue reading

Posted in Current Operations, Defense, Elections, Foreign Policy, Government, Military, Politics | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Despots and terrorists take notice

As I mentioned, one of the interesting advanced technologies currently under development by the military is a rocket powered glider capable of being dropped from an aircraft and the gliding at high speed for perhaps hundreds of miles to allow special forces troops to arrive at targets quickly and almost undetected. A prototype of that idea flew across the English Channel today. Jules Crittenden has some great pictures. […] Continue reading

Posted in Aviation, Current Operations, Funding, Future Military, Military, Military Technology, News, Science and Technology, Worldview Item of the Day | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

They never saw it coming

Courtesy of BlackFive comes the report that Aurora Flight Sciences is developing a VTOL UAV called Excalibur capable of carrying Hellfires and other air to ground whacking goodies. This machine has all kinds of potential for making America’s enemies sweat. […] Continue reading

Posted in Future Military, Military, Military Technology, News, Robotics, Science and Technology, Worldview Item of the Day | Tagged , , | 2 Comments