Entries Tagged as 'Defense'

Lou Dobbs & Boeing

March 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Lou Dobbs seems to have a problem with the Air Force’s recent decision in regards to the Tanker Deal.  He complains that, among other things, the U.S. should be buying American made planes rather then European made planes.
I challenge this guy (or anybody for that matter) to explain why the Air Force should choose the Boeing plane over the […]

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Boeing Tanker Non-Deal ~ When Politics Attack

March 8th, 2008 · No Comments

There is a pretty simple reason why Boeing didn’t get the $40 billion contract to build a new fleet of refueling tankers.  BOEING SUCKS.  Even the Commander of the Air Force’s Mobility Command, Gen. Arthur J Lichte, stated that the winning design was better overall.
More passengers, more cargo, more fuel to offload, more patients that we […]

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Ahmadinejad Goes to Iraq

March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

The President of Iran, the country we were suppose to attack, went to Iraq today and yesterday on an announced visit - planned for weeks in advance.  He noted that he didn’t need to come into Iraq under any veil of secrecy and that he was able to walk around Baghdad freely, even shunning his own […]

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Tags: Defense · Iran · Iraq · News

UPDATE: Venezuela Sends 10 Battalions to its Border with Colombia

March 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

In recent months/years, Venezuela has turned more and more toward drug trafficking as a way of making money.  Mostly in conjunction with the notorious drug trafficking and known terrorist organization, FARC, which is based in Colombia. Venezuela has expelled most if not all DEA agents the US had in the country, after accusing them of overstepping their authority over just drug […]

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UPDATE: Prince Harry Goes To War

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s hard to feel for a guy with Prince in front of his name, but I do.  When my mother was born, as she once told me, she later found out in her life that she was born around the same time as HRH Princess Diana.  That coupled with the Princesses work around the world, gave my […]

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Greatest Military Blunders of the 21st Century

February 12th, 2008 · No Comments

I always loved watching the Greatest Military Blunders show on the History Channel, back in the day.  Even though I may have been 16; the show, as far as I was concerned, allowed me to analyze and expand my reasoning skills by learning how and why the leaders of the past made decisions, their decision’s outcome, […]

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Power Grid Up For Grabs

January 19th, 2008 · No Comments

It has been known for a while now that the outdated systems that operate our Nation’s power grid lack the ability to stop foreign or domestic intrusions into their networks via the Internet.  CIA official, Tom Donahue, told the an audience at the SANS security trade conference in New Orleans this past Friday that hackers […]

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A Soldier I Met

December 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Yesterday I met Infantryman Private Black of the United States Army.
On that day the remodel for our family owned AMPM, had just passed the Health Inspection and we were in the process of moving back in the merchandise.  I was helping out, and the store was only open for those that wanted to buy gas.
Along comes […]

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