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Compliments of Global Security.org X-51 Scramjet Engine Demonstrator - WaveRider (SED-WR) A flight test scheduled for 14 August 2012 re...

When I was in the service, I was part of the branch that was "always out front".  We did and saw things that most people never saw...

When I was part of the NATO alliance we made jokes that if the romping stomping Red Army came across the Fulda Gap ,   We made jokes that ...

I I remembered seeing the M1 for the first time on a training area on Hohenfels in Germany.  Anybody that has been in Germany has been to Ho...

I get an intelligence summary in my e-mail, it usually pertains to international affairs, and despite what we wish sometimes, what happ...

By George Friedman It has been 10 years since 9/11, and all of us who write about such things for a living are writing about it. That ...

It is Sept. 1, and that means we are once again approaching the anniversary of al Qaeda’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against the United S...

 I have commented more than once that we as a nation has lost its Strategic vision, we do what is politically expedient versus what is right...

I got this from one of my airplane sources.  it does have me concerned with the recent russian militarism and Putin wanting to return the Ru...

I get these in the mail,  As a former analyst, I still like to get information that keeps me up to date in that area.   ...

I get intelligence summaries in my mailbox,   This is a good site, you can get in their e-mail list .       I will be surprised if this i...

Libya and the Problem with The Hague By George Friedman | July 12, 2011 The war in Libya has been under...

I got this from Stratfor, since I am a former intel weenie, I still like to get this kind of stuff, keeps me interested in what is going on ...