Saturday at the Movies: 33 Minutes

BySteeljawscribe 2 May 20091 May 2009

Continuing the missile defense theme from the stand-up of the NAMDC, offered here is a new trailer for the Heritage Foundation film on the need for missile defense:

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Busted – The Photoshoppe Mullahs
BySteeljawscribe 10 July 200830 March 2010

Memo to the Strategic Communications folks – might want to work on that “Uniform Message” thing… (version released to AGENCE France-Presse ) (version released to Associated Press – note the dud in the foreground)

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New START Treaty: Text and Missile Defense
BySteeljawscribe 8 April 2010

The new START Treaty was signed in Prague today and the text for both the Treaty (17 pages) and the Protocols (165 pages) are available. On reading the text of the Treaty (still wading through the Protocols) am finding nothing untoward or diverging from what has been said here and elsewhere these past few days….

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Sea-based BMD and the Maritime Strategy
BySteeljawscribe 30 July 200831 July 2008

Deterrence. Preventing war is preferable to fighting wars. Deterring aggression must be viewed in global, regional, and transnational terms via conventional, unconventional, and nuclear means. Effective Theater Security Cooperation activities are a form of extended deterrence, creating security and removing conditions for conflict. Maritime ballistic missile defense will enhance deterrence by providing an umbrella of…

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Flightdeck Friday: A BMD Primer
BySteeljawscribe 3 March 2012

Every now and then I get a chance to reach escape velocity from my day job and do something really fun or different.Â Recently that entailed presenting a BMD overview to a couple of classes that were part of the Naval War College’s Non-Resident Seminar program (of which YHS is a graduate).Â And like any…

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Airborne Laser Testbed Successful in Lethal Intercept Experiment
BySteeljawscribe 12 February 201013 February 2010

From an MDA press release earlier today: The Missile Defense Agency demonstrated the potential use of directed energy to defend against ballistic missiles when the Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB) successfully destroyed a boosting ballistic missile. The experiment, conducted at Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center-Weapons Division Sea Range off the central California coast, serves as…

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Missile Defense 101 â€“ The Threat
BySteeljawscribe 17 May 200728 March 2010

(Part II of the series – Part I (ICBM Fundamentals) may be found here) Musudan, North Korea: 0307Z 31 August 1998. On the pad stands an intelligence surprise – a three-stage developmental ICBM which on this day, will attempt to place a small satellite on orbit, broadcasting the immortal hymns of The Dear Leader….

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virfgil xenophon says:

2 May 2009 at 23:04

Couldn’t help but notice on your comments over at the NI blog about passing an old Nike site every day. One of my 1st cousins (WP’43) commanded the Army Nike Ajax/Hercules site on San Pablo Ridge overlooking SF, CA in 1960 as an Army LTC, made O-6 out of it. Of course all that went away and the sealed site is now part of a Nat. Park with tours–and under the gaze of covetous real-estate interests.

Now we talk of upgrading/reconstituting the whole concept everybody once said was obsolete. Everything old is new again…
virgil xenophon says:

2 May 2009 at 23:11

LOL Had to post again just so the computer would remember the correct spelling of my nom de plume.

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