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

Sunday, March 30, 2008

KC-45 Protest: CATO's Friedman Off Target- Collateral Damage Occurs

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I found this at the faux blog " tankerblog.com " (I don't link to fakes) and it kind of tickled me a little bit because tanker...
Friday, March 28, 2008

KC-45 Win: Not a 'Foreign' First

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I've run into a lot of buzz on the internet where people were bemoaning a 'foreign' aircraft winning the KC-X competition. I eve...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

KC-45 Contract Protest: Counter Maneuvers

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Reuters reports Northrop Grumman has filed a counter-protest: Los Angeles-based Northrop said Boeing waited too long to raise its challenge ...
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Aghhh! Hippies!

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Here's a quick sidetrip from the KC-45 tanker battle. This was making the e-mail rounds among my military and defense worker friends tod...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Boeing's Disinformation Campaign Getting Noticed

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Hey! I'm not the only one that noticed Boeing's proxies set up a fake blog shilling against the KC-45. Graham Warwick at "Flig...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Boeing's KC-45 Protest:That Dog Won't Hunt Part 1

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Claim: Air Force Wrongfully "Rejected" Boeing's KC-X Cost/Price Data After reviewing Boeing's 'executive summary' ...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Northrop Grumman Disputes Boeing's V-22 Claim

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Did Boeing Mislead Hugh Hewitt? Say it Ain't So! My lunchtime reading lead me to this article where Northrop Grumman disputes Boeing...
Friday, March 21, 2008

Hugh Hewitt: Sadly in the Tank For Boeing

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Well, I sent the letter (excerpt below) to Mr Hewitt after his Mark McGraw Spinfest, and as you will see below the excerpt -- alas, it did n...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

New Theme Needed?

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Looks like I'm going to have to add a new theme for discussion on this blog: Boeing BS Watch. Boeing's Mark McGraw is a one front-ma...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Boeing "Surprised" in Tanker Duel? NOT!

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Lockheed Martin has an internal news bulletin that summarizes a lot of the aerospace news of the day. In today’s edition was an Av Week blur...
Friday, February 29, 2008

KC-X Contract Announced Today: Protest Too?

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AF Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley hopes there won't be a protest by the losing bidder. His appeal asking "...(the losing ta...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

"Eco Moms" - Riiight

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H/T Instapundit Eco Moms ? Who hoo! I think I'm going to be revisiting these concerned and caring people in the future. Of course I woul...
Saturday, February 16, 2008

Republican Primaries: WTFO?

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What can I say? McCain didn't pull a majority anywhere until it was just him or Huckabee. He 'Pluralitied' the oppostion to obli...
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From My "I Love Me Wall"

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I'm indulging my self a bit and surrendering to my more base instincts in this post. I won't explain it here, and will take this dow...
Friday, February 01, 2008

Rocket Sled Land Speed Record (Update: Not Quite)

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Update 6Feb08: Looks like preliminary data was in error . Although the Navy got the test results it wanted, the old record (held by the sam...
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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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