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October 20, 2020—Soldier Down: General Shy Meyer, Rest in Peace
Retired Army General Edward C. Meyer, former Army Chief of Staff (1979-83), died last week in Arlington, Virginia at the age of 91. I understand his prep-school colleagues called him “Shy,” a nickname...
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October 13, 2020—Remember Reykjavik!
“Gorbachev said he could not do it. If they could agree to ban research in space, he would sign in two minutes. They should add to the text ‘The testing in space of all space components of missile...
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August 4, 2019—China: Another Cold War? Not!!!
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We [don’t] pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one...
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July 28, 2020—Go Back to the Future with ASATs and Global Defenses
DoD is upgrading the Aegis BMD system’s SM-3 Block IIA interceptor, and its command, control system to intercept ICBMs. It’s about time since even the Block IB had this potential!!! So, we are...
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June 9, 2020—Innovate the National Guard while Shooting for the Moon . . .
“Regardless of the argument over who is most responsible for the riots, state and municipal authorities must resolve to bring peace back to their streets, with the assistance of the National Guard as...
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April 14, 2020—A New MAD, MAD World?
The Trump administration’s funding priorities display an apparent strategy to play “catch-up” with the growing Russian and Chinese hypersonic threat capabilities — and to rely totally on the Mutual...
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December 10, 2019—Never Forget Pearl Harbor!
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” ~ George Santayana Last Saturday, about 2000 public participants joined about a dozen aging survivors, the youngest of which are in their...
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November 26, 2019—Give Thanks and Learn from our First Thanksgiving!
Let us pause to give thanks for all our blessings, and the lessons learned by those who came before us — particularly the Puritans who risked everything for a new life in America. Such memories help us...
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October 15, 2019—Reykjavik Lessons for Today!
“Gorbachev said he could not do it. If they could agree to ban research in space, he would sign in two minutes. They should add to the text ‘The testing in space of all space components of missile...
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September 24, 2019—Red Storm Coming from China!
“China is pursuing a broad and robust array of counterspace capabilities, which includes direct-ascent anti-satellite missiles, co-orbital anti-satellite systems, computer network operations,...
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July 30, 2019—Whither Space Defense?
“So far, the only promising [boost phase] defense system concept has been a space based or satellite borne interceptor. Such a system requires many thousands of interceptors in space, but at a given...
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June 25, 2019—Are the “Stars” Aligning for Space Defense?
Claims that the President’s Space Force proposal is in trouble are much overstated. Indeed, what is unfolding has many precedents in history where success proceeds in a “one-step-backward” and...
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June 11, 2019—Follow SpaceX to Revive Cost-Effective Space Defense!
SpaceX and others in the private sector are exploiting current technology that can enable a truly advanced space-based defense program — an advanced Brilliant Pebbles system that was the most important...
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May 14, 2019—Space Force: Moment of Truth!
We endorse the position of General John Hyten, USAF, Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, who recently testified, “We’re going to have a Space Force someday. I think what the Committee has to decide is...
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April 23, 2019—Air Force Stewardship of Space?
Last week on the 77th anniversary of Jimmy Doolittle’s famous raid on Tokyo, I wrote a Newsmax article that I proposed to title, “No Space Pearl Harbor, Please!” I wanted it to key off that important...
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April 9, 2019—Revive Brilliant Pebbles ASAP!
Last month, many of us remembered President Reagan’s March 23, 1983 speech that launched his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which many remember as playing a crucial role in ending the Cold War....
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March 5, 2019—On Reykjavik Delusions!
Many have compared when last week President Trump walked out of his Hanoi meeting with Kim Jong Un and when Ronald Reagan walked out of his October 1986 Reykjavik Summit with Mikhail Gorbachev, without...
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February 12, 2019—Win One for the Gipper!
“I believe it can be credibly argued that among President Reagan’s greatest acts of leadership was his commitment on March 23, 1983, to the Strategic Defense Initiative — SDI. . . He put it this way...
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January 29, 2019—Wake Up America!
High-altitude EMP (HEMP) attacks would produce no blast or other immediate effects harmful to humans, but would damage life sustaining electronics so that millions could die from its long-term...
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January 22, 2019—Update 1989-90 Brilliant Pebbles Studies!
Brilliant Pebbles, the most important Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) concept from President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), entered a fully approved Concept Development and Validation...
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