Elements Of Power

Commentary and discussion on world events from the perspective that all goings-on can be related to one of the six elements of National Power: Military, Economic, Cultural, Demographic, Organizational, & Geographical. All Elements are interrelated and rarely can one be discussed without also discussing its impact on the others

Friday, December 29, 2006

Saddam's End: Feels About Right

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Saddam Hussein, by all accounts, is about to be hanged. While I can't imagine how this event plays out in the minds of the survivors of ...
Friday, December 15, 2006

Yesssssssss! The F-35 Flies

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Minutes ago, at exacty 1240hrs Central Time, the first F-35 took off from the runway at Carswell Joint Reserve Base with it's chase esco...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

C-SPAN Wants Even MORE Buffoonery?

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According to The Hill , C-SPAN is 'pressing' Rep. Nancy Pelosi to "increase transparency" by loosening the television rule...
Monday, December 11, 2006

Kofi: Despots' Fool, Terrorists' Tool

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Kofi is gone (finally!) A Fox News article on Kofi's farewell swipe at the US contained a pretty good summary on the man: "Kofi ...
Monday, December 04, 2006

Go Read "In From the Cold"

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For the life of me, I don't know why more people don't visit Former Spook at In From the Cold and do it more often. Or perhaps they ...
Saturday, December 02, 2006

Air Force 'Force Reshaping' Sales Pitch. Part 4

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For the story so far, see Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 As mentioned earlier, Part 4 is where we will examine the part of the AF brief where t...
Friday, November 17, 2006

Killer Asteroids and Risk Management 101

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"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space ...
Saturday, November 11, 2006

Yes, We Should Judge the Election Outcome by the Joy it Brings Our Enemies

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...and we should judge our political parties by their willingness to give and/or sustain our enemies' joy. Powerline is right . Captain ...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

Airbus Aircraft Design Culture: Update

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I've been following this since the Airbus 300 series airplane went down over NY right after the 9/11 attacks. Airbus and others insi...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

My Election Post Mortem

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I think Hugh Hewitt drives a spike in the root cause of the Republican downfall today over at Townhall.com. A Short summary of my take: Too...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Today's Responsibility

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....and civil right Go Vote. Now.
Monday, October 16, 2006

Roundup on Latest VLJ and Air Taxi Developments

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Archive (Friday's Post) Here Quarterly (4 months actually) Update on Very Light Jets & Air Taxis After I posted a few items on how V...
Saturday, October 14, 2006

Very Light Jets (VLJs) and Air Taxis

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I haven't posted anything about Very Light Jets and the Air Taxi concept for a while, but there's been a lot going on lately in this...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

Moonbat Hunt Called Off

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I initially wrote about half of this as another "Moonbat hunting" piece, but it came over as just plain mean given the target, whi...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Horton is the Who…

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As in “Who is a ranting Anti-globalist, Anti-capitalist, Anti-Western, Useful Idiot, Lancet Editor with his panties in a knot?” Six HUNDRED ...
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I am a '3rd Generation Aerospace' Professional and a retired Air Force Senior NCO. I maintained and tested airborne precision guided weapons the first half of my Air Force career [including AIMVAL/ACEVAL, TASVAL79, AIM-9L FOT&E--IYAAYAS!] and flight tested RPVs, Drones and Cruise Missiles [XBQM-106A, Pave Tiger/Panther, CALCM, ACM and 'others'] the second half. Since my AF retirement I have worked on many aircraft, UAV and weapons programs. I have worked systems, flight, and laboratory test programs about half the time, and have worked R&M Engineering, Depot Operations, and Operations Analysis (Combat and Logistics) the other half, I am now the Lead Engineer xx x xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx xxxx (doing 'stuff') on yet another major weapon systems program and still involved in a wide range of Aerospace Engineering and Military Operations Research activities for multiple programs.
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