Category Archives: Defense Procurement

NDAA: Chris Hedges Barks Up the Wrong Tree

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “NDAA: Chris Hedges Barks Up the Wrong Tree”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Chris Hedges is not suing the president for personal publicity; I’m afraid it’s much worse than that. He’s a committed pacifist with a very respectable record of leadership in … Continue reading →

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Why I’m Not a Drone Hysteric

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Why I’m Not a Drone Hysteric”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Drone fever: catch it! RT America, in August: The US will drop billions on defense spending with the purchasing of 55 Global Hawk drone planes over the next few years. Each … Continue reading →

Posted in Defense Procurement, national security | Tagged drones, libya, military, military history, Pakistan, uav, unmanned aerial vehicle | 3 Comments

Death Star Programmatics

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Death Star Programmatics”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Lt. Col. Dan Ward, US Air Force, has made an important contribution to fanboydom. Don’t Come to the Dark Side: Acquisition Lessons from a Galaxy Far, Far Away is also a great introduction to the pitfalls … Continue reading →

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HALE-D Takes Flight

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “HALE-D Takes Flight”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailHigh Altitude Long Endurance-Demonstrator (HALE-D) is a Lockheed Martin creation. This solar-powered blimp maintains its position at 60,000 feet (18,000 meters in Canadian altitude) to overwatch a 600-mile wide patch of Earth. Obviously, the military … Continue reading →

Posted in Defense Procurement, Science! | Tagged aircraft, airship, blimp, dirigible, solar, zeppelin | 2 Comments

Saturday Afternoon TV: Why We Fight

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Saturday Afternoon TV: Why We Fight”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailOne of the best documentaries of the last ten years, Why We Fight takes its title from the WWII propaganda series hosted by Walter Cronkite. A mythology of security that began with … Continue reading →

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Saturday Afternoon TV: Why We Fight

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Matt Osborne

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Goodbye To The Hummer

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Goodbye To The Hummer”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailGeneral Motors has given up on selling the Hummer brand to China. Meanwhile, the Army will not buy any more of them after 2011 as they move to mine- and rocket-resistant vehicles. As one … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Do you remember when the right erupted over the CBS docudrama about the Reagans? It turned out to be a somewhat oversimplified telling of St. Ronald as good-hearted, if slightly confused old man. This is … Continue reading →

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Richard Shelby

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Richard Shelby”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI’ll give Jeff Sessions credit: he at least wrote back to me about his gang-rape vote. Richard Shelby, on the other hand, has yet to acknowledge the complaint. Now Shelby’s put an unprecedented “blanket hold” on … Continue reading →

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All You Need To Know About Defense Procurement

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “All You Need To Know About Defense Procurement”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailOne CH-47F Improved Cargo Helicopter: $32 million. Some U.S. special forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan may be at higher risk than usual of injury and death because the Pentagon has … Continue reading →

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