John Pike
John Pike
army choice iraqi irrelevant precision since somewhere ultimate weapon
It's somewhere between irrelevant and counterproductive. Since the Iraqi army disintegrated, the weapon of choice has become a sniper. That's the ultimate in precision firepower.
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They couldn't just do closures to help Republicans, ... It would be transparently political.
activism bases drive local political
They are one-company towns. That's going to drive the local political activism to keep the bases open.
adequately fact hired
They've hired a lot of new people. You know they are not all going to be adequately trained, that's a fact of life.
hope perfectly reason work
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,
sounds
It sounds like it's, unfortunately, about what you'd expect, because the things do crash.
complete hardware people procedure radios
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.
business companies private
Private companies are in business to make money,
farms hold illinois interest local move southern terminal
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.
beginning damage disaster problem serious understand
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?
answered changed images intelligence number questions recognize space time
Some would say it's time to recognize that the world has changed - that the number of intelligence questions that can be answered with images from space is very limited.
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I don't think they're going to move a base to Florida because the governor is the president's brother.
basis military
It's discredited the American military without any basis in fact,