Identification of the critical information to be protected
Analysis of the threats
Analysis of the vulnerabilities
Assessment of the risks
Application of the countermeasures
Will these guys ever try to analyse the engineering hurdles and strength of materials problems? For instance: the elastic properties of the 62 THOUSAND MILE "ribbon", i.e., strain or percent elongation, alone, make the concept little more than a foolish pipe dream. Go figure.
"I do not understand why certain drugs are illegal in America, and why other drugs that are just as dangerous and addictive are legally and socially accepted."
Huh? Maybe your brain has been damaged by some "harmless drug".
"The fact is that we are not at war in the way the framers of our Constitution understood that concept when they wrote the document. We are engaged in a different enterprise entirely, one that overlaps only a little with war as it has been traditionally and politically understood. More than any well-honed constitutional theory, it seems to me, this simple distinction hacks the legs out from under the assertions of executive privilege in wartime being made today." ____________________________________________________ Pages and pages of this BS article - written just to knock Bush! See his last sentence above. The writer doesn't belong with the Hoover Institute.
Raytheon [Texas Instruments] for the Air Force and the Navy. The AGM-154A (Formerly Advanced Interdiction Weapon System) is intended to provide a low cost, highly lethal glide weapon with a standoff capability. JSOW family of kinematically efficient, air-to-surface glide weapons, in the 1,000-lb class, provides standoff capabilities from 15 nautical miles (low altitude launch) to 40 nautical miles (high altitude launch). The JSOW will be used against a variety of land and sea targets and will operate from ranges outside enemy point defenses. The JSOW is a launch and leave weapon that employs a tightly coupled Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Navigation System (INS), and is capable of day/night and adverse weather operations. The JSOW uses inertial and global positioning system for midcourse navigation and imaging infra-red and datalink for terminal homing.