John Pike
John Pike
basis military
It's discredited the American military without any basis in fact,
training
What are you training for? To kill insurgents.
costs cut good left money sure
To make sure there is some money left over at the end of the year, they're going to cut costs. A good place to cut costs is security.
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We're supposed to be in winter, but it doesn't look like any winter weather is coming.
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The problem for the enemy is that computer security vulnerabilities will almost certainly prove fleeting and unpredictable,
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There's some interest here in retrofitting barns. Most farms in Southern Illinois don't have a lot of on-farm storage. And the local elevators and terminal elevators are not set up to hold grain. They have to move it out.
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They had all the radios in the world. They had complete interoperability. That was not a hardware problem. That was a people and procedure problem.
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As with every other weapon, there is no reason to hope that it is going to work perfectly all of the time.
appointed commission talking
It's all political. You have politicians on the BRAC commission who were appointed by politicians and who were they talking to? Politicians,
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It's a zero sum competition among these politicians to bring home the bacon.
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Is the problem that they are only just now beginning to understand how serious the damage was? Did they not have a contingency for a disaster of this magnitude?
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The whole story is hard to put together,
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The bottom line is that the U.S. government looked at this imagery and decided that it was OK for it to be publicly released,
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The strategy is to get China to waste money on things that we know are not feasible, while discouraging them from working on things that we believe to be quite promising, ... The U.S. continues to fund work in this field, despite the fact that it contravenes known laws of physics.