Loren Thompson
Loren Thompson
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It's time for the administration to do a fundamental reassessment of what it is that we are willing to do in order to stabilize Iraq. The United States needs to draw a line in terms of how deep it is willing to be drawn into Iraqi domestic politics.
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This is an interesting twist on an argument that the Air Force has been pursuing for some time on the need to cut its purchases of Joint Strike Fighters. The Air Force has settled on a number of about 1,100.
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If we're going to bomb Iran, it's a long time off in the future, and we're certainly not going to use nuclear weapons to do it.
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This is very good news for Boeing at a time when its space operations seemed to be faltering.
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Having already gone through a bad aircraft choice once, the Army wants to make absolutely certain that this time it picks the right aircraft.
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The big question going forward is how intensive the military commitment to Iraq remains. If it stays at current levels, then the Army is facing a recruiting challenge every month for years to come.
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Existing levels of demand are driving the market toward one provider of launch services.
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Cutting that much money from the program clearly foreshadows either program termination or a long delay and major restructuring.
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Cutting-edge military technology today is very similar to cutting-edge commercial technology. It's not clear we can control any of these dual-use technologies to stop them from reaching enemy hands.
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The government should never have tried to develop one system to meet the very different needs of the Army and Navy.
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You have to wonder where the Army thinks it's going after Iraq.
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What happened here is that the technology enthusiasts got far beyond what the laws of physics would allow.
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There's going to be big cuts in the spacecraft program.
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The sad thing is that in the effort to demonstrate that it is being diligent, the agency is undermining popular support for any manned spaceflight. It enforces the public's apprehension of human spaceflight.