Let me introduce you to the Boeing Airborne Laser and get you to thinking about the possibility that smaller scale systems like this will be deployed in space to protect our assets and threaten yours.
And whatever China wants, it knows it can count on from it’s operatives in the U.S., both foreign born and home grown.
I wonder if the ChiComs are familiar with the term “depressed trajectory”.
Every dollar we spend on Chinese products is a bullet pointed at America.
No wonder they want to go to the moon!
Concocted by Harry Truman, resurrected by Dick Nixon, Fed and nourished by Bush I, Bill Clinton and Bush II.
Can’t jam a lensatic compass.
LLS
Wow thanks to Bernard Swartz, New School and Bubba for giveing away the store. Now we get bit on our rears just to keep Bubba in women and Bernie on Boards.
Next time you get lost cause your GPS unit will never work again...just call Bernie.
Well, it must suck for those who have built their entire military and intelligence network on such technology.
Oops.
Pre-1941 we were selling scrap iron to the Japs. I think it was the 3rd Ave. elevated that went over just before the war.
After the attack on Manila on Dec. 8, one guy picked up a piece of “shrapnel”. It turned out to be a main bearing from a Ford Model A (he was a mechanic in civilian life). Another one found screws all over the place - the Japs didn’t even bother to melt the stuff down.
We’re a little more advanced in our sellouts now, but it will be the American troops who suffer the result (again).
They always thought that if USSR shot at either Comm or GPS birds, that was a very bad sign of war being imminent.
We should send top admirals over there to show them how to develop and command large carrier groups.
With just a little more help from us, they could have the best navy in the world, and then we could really become good, close friends as equals and partners in the wonderful, peaceful, new world order.
It’s not right that we should have an advantage in carrier groups like we still do. The Chinese are a proud people and great friends of their neighbors, like Tibet.
America is lucky to have such good friends. Our leaders are the best! And I mean both parties. They’ve put their heads together and brought us forward to this peaceful state of mutual admiration and cooperation.
Let me introduce you to the Boeing Airborne Laser and get you to thinking about the possibility that smaller scale systems like this will be deployed in space to protect our assets and threaten yours.
Hey, even though they are going to commit an act of war and start shooting down our satellites, let’s borrow more money from them!
something for your ping list?
Time Magazine Review:
Parkinson's thesis is that the whole of civilized history can be reduced to the confrontation of the East and West, with "alternating phases of Oriental and Western ascendancy." The West set the pendulum in motion with the capture of Troy in about 1250 B.C., which launched the Greeks' thrust into Asia Minor. Since that time, the East has rebounded with two long periods of ascendancy—one following the Persian conquests under Darius (522 B.C.), the other from roughly A.D. 400 to 1000, when Buddhism was sweeping Asia and Europe was plunged in the Dark Ages. The West was ascendant from 331 B.C., when Alexander swept through Asia Minor and into India, to about A.D. 200, when Roman power in the Near East crumbled. The second era of Western ascendancy began around 1500 and extended to the mid-1800s.
It is Parkinson's argument that the pendulum is now swinging eastward. The first signs of the shift, he feels, appeared in 1850 with the Taiping rebellion in China, followed closely by the Indian Mutiny and eventually by the Boxer rising of 1900. But the crucial date is 1905, and the crucial event the destruction of the Russian fleet by the Japanese. Since then, Parkinson feels, the "established prestige of the West" has been shattered. (The destruction of the Japanese fleet by the U.S. Navy in World War II does not seem to impress him.) Parkinson does not believe that Eastern parity with the West "is even imminent," but believes that it will eventually come and that it will be up to Russia to fight the West's last rearguard action, as Byzantium once shored up the exhausted Roman Empire.