Journal: NRO, KR to AF, Open IC?, Piracy vs Piracy

Struggling Spy Satellite Agency Tries to Right Itself National Defense January 2010 SAN ANTONIO, Texas – The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency responsible for developing and launching the U.S. fleet of spy satellites, is embarking on an ambitious plan to right itself after years of cost overruns and program cancellations. But two powerful senators have …

Journal: Advise and Assist (Iraq)

U.S.-Iraqi partnership halts smuggling across Syrian border Dec 14, 2009   By Spc. Michael J. MacLeod CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE UBAYDI, Iraq (Dec. 14, 2009) — Since U.S. advise and assist forces began partnering with Iraqi border patrols along the Syrian border in mid-November, instances of smugglers circumventing port-of-entry stations have all but ceased, according to several …

Journal: Withdrawal? We Don’t Need No Stinking Withdrawal…

Clinton And Gates: No Deadline On Afghan Withdrawal — We Swear! Chuck Spinney Sends…. In today’s cameos [summary attached below] on the Sunday talk show circuit, Defense Secretary Gates (no doubt the Surge’s wily deus ex machina) and Secretary of State Clinton (Gates’ transparent accomplice) stated again that there is no deadline for a withdrawal of US …