What about the F-22?
Updated: 2011-03-31 16:54:03
Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Security Matters What about the F-22 Laicie Mar 31, 2011 0 Not today . Remember the F-22 After years of back and forth over its cost and utility , Congress voted in 2009 to cease additional procurement of the plane . Those that were purchased already have done little more than gather rust since their introduction into the Air Force in 2005. Early this month , though , the aircraft were reportedly readied for action just in case , and Gen Norton Schwartz , USAF chief of staff , told Congress that he expected the F-22s to be employed in what was still a hypothetical operation in Libya . Certainly , if the planes have feelings their lonely hearts
Busy day today; full text after the jump. Update to Information Sheet Regarding the Tohoku Earthquake The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) Washington DC Office As of 11:00AM (EST), March 31, 2011 Radiation Levels o At 8:51AM (JST) on March 31, it was announced that radioactive nuclide I-131 was detected from the [...]
Going to try to catch up this week on the backlog of book reviews I need to do, particularly those books sent to me by publishers. I may have to break down and do a set of mini-reviews, so far behind I have gotten myself.
So, naturally, that was a suitable pretext to order more books [...]
I attempted to leave a short amusing response at Foreign Policy.com but was thwarted by their comment system, so I am writing a pedantic post here instead.
Joshua Keating, bursting with admiration for Bernard-Henri Levy, laments the lack of enlightenment of American politicians compared to their much cooler French counterparts:
Libyan intervention: Brought to you by Bernard-Henri Levy?
….I was going to write some kind [...]
A busy day for blogfriends and associates….want to draw your attention to a few highlights:
First, congratulations to Matt Armstrong of MountainRunner on his new appointment as Executive Director of the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. It’s hard to think of anyone better qualified than Matt!
There is a new Executive Director of the US Advisory [...]
Handbook of Research on Strategy Process by Pietro Mazzola and Franz W. Kellermans (Ed.)
Dr. Chet Richards has contributed to an important new theoretical book on strategic applications to business enterprises. For those newer readers, Chet is an authoritative source on strategy, particularly the theories of Colonel John Boyd and is the former proprietor of the late, great, strategy website [...]
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Yesterday, I stumbled on the account of pole dancing for Jesus with the accompanying graphic. I was a little taken aback, I’ll admit, but Jesus didn’t confine his ministry to the pious and scholarly, he befriended women of questionable morals and enforcers from the Roman mob as I recall, or “publicans [...]
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