In Case You Were Wondering What It Looks Like When $1.2 Billion Goes Up In Smoke (Sunday, June 8, 2008)
... here's the video
Three Stories for Memorial Day (Sunday, May 25, 2008)
Remembering sacrifice and courage under fire
The Day After (Monday, May 5, 2008)
The Sci Fi Channel cuts the heart out of an important historical artifact
What Do You Get the Armed Service That Has Everything? (Thursday, March 6, 2008)
How about a shiny new 767? Now available for purchase online!
It’s Not Just the M16 (Tuesday, December 18, 2007)
New dust test finds the M4 carbine has jam problems in desert conditions
Things Fall Apart (Monday, November 5, 2007)
Crisis in Pakistan
A Simple Test (Wednesday, October 24, 2007)
... to detect simple minds
"He Should Have an AK" (Tuesday, October 9, 2007)
... says one of the original designers of the M-16
OK, This Is New (Thursday, August 23, 2007)
Active duty NCOs taking their doubts about the war to the New York Times, that is
The Most Dangerous Weapon of Mass Destruction (Wednesday, August 15, 2007)
And no, it's not the nuke
If Something Happens (Wednesday, August 8, 2007)
A request
Shorter Bill O'Reilly (Wednesday, April 4, 2007)
Cutting to the chase
Homebrew Air Force in Sri Lanka (Tuesday, March 27, 2007)
The Tamil Tiger rebel group in Sri Lanka appears to have invented the world's first guerrilla air force: A Tamil...
The Coming War With Iran (Thursday, February 1, 2007)
In the distance, you can hear the drums beating already
"Regional Nuclear War" Could Be Not So Regional After All (Monday, January 29, 2007)
New study indicates that even a small nuclear exchange could dramatically cool the Earth
The Hidden Danger of Escalation (Sunday, January 14, 2007)
What's the worst that could happen? Find out
The End of Key West? (Tuesday, December 12, 2006)
Could be
That Was Fast (Tuesday, October 10, 2006)
An army of... two?
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Wednesday, September 13, 2006)
... and now we have proof
Five Years On (Monday, September 11, 2006)
... from 9/11
Air Marshals Can (Finally) Be More Frank Serpico and Less Joe Friday (Monday, August 28, 2006)
Air Marshals Service finally relaxes ridiculous dress code
UK Stops Airliner Bomb Plot (Thursday, August 10, 2006)
And it's apparently a big one
Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, and 4GW (Wednesday, July 19, 2006)
Or, how to make sense of the nonsensical
The Nuclear Option (Saturday, April 8, 2006)
If you thought the Administration had completely exhausted their supply of monumentally bad ideas, Seymour Hersh's latest report in the...
Brace Yourself (Thursday, February 16, 2006)
Bad moon rising
Prominent al Qaeda Terrorist Escapes Yemeni Prison (Monday, February 6, 2006)
Good work, Yemen: Interpol has issued "an urgent global security alert" after 23 "dangerous individuals" -- including a man identified...
Bush to McCain and Congress: Blow Me (Sunday, January 8, 2006)
On torture, that is
Where Is America? (Thursday, December 22, 2005)
By now you've probably heard that President Bush authorized the use of the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on American...
Al Qaeda Strikes in Amman (Thursday, November 10, 2005)
al Zarqawi attacks a neighbor
"Open Source War" (Tuesday, November 8, 2005)
Rage in the banlieues
Terror Returns to An Old Target (Saturday, October 1, 2005)
Indonesia is hit again
"Safer Now" Updated (Sunday, July 24, 2005)
I wish the day was here when there were no more updates to make to this...
Are We Safer Now? (Friday, July 8, 2005)
Flypaper? Let's look at the f#@%ing map
Terrorists Attack London Transit System; "Many" Casualties (Thursday, July 7, 2005)
Tragedy in the UK
Stop Killing The Good Ones, Dammit! (Thursday, May 5, 2005)
Col. David Hackworth, dead at 74
Just Pay the Damn Soldiers What They Deserve Already (Wednesday, January 26, 2005)
More idiocy from the military Powers That Be
The Breaking of the Army Reserve (Thursday, January 13, 2005)
... is imminent. Says who? The General in charge of the Army Reserve
Why They Yelled At Rummy (Wednesday, December 8, 2004)
Some background
"Eyeballing the NSA Power Supply" (Thursday, December 2, 2004)
Lights out!
Ridge Is Out (Tuesday, November 30, 2004)
And he's not even being kicked upstairs!
Bin Laden's October Surprise (Monday, November 1, 2004)
What does it mean? Not what everyone says
Holy Crap (Monday, October 4, 2004)
This is a real gut-check
The 9/11 Commission Report (Saturday, September 11, 2004)
Reflections on an important document
Tragedy in Jakarta (Friday, September 10, 2004)
Jemaah Islamiyah strikes again in Jakarta
Sleep Well, America! (Tuesday, August 10, 2004)
3,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate stolen in North Carolina
Data That Prompted Terror Alert Pre-dates 9/11 (Tuesday, August 3, 2004)
Hey, we found these terrorists' notes behind a file cabinet...
Terror Alert for Financial Buildings in DC, NY, NJ (Sunday, August 1, 2004)
DHS raises threat level on key financial installations
Ridge Could Step Down After Election (Friday, July 30, 2004)
Seems he's just plain tuckered out!
KBR: Where Money Is No Object (Tuesday, July 27, 2004)
How bad is the waste of taxpayer money by Halliburton? Pretty bad
Recruiting: So It's Come To This (Friday, July 23, 2004)
A story that's weirder than you will ever guess
Pentagon Hijackers Caught on Tape Being Passed Through Airport Security (Thursday, July 22, 2004)
Let's go to the videotape
New Category: Terrorism, Security, and Defense Reform (Monday, July 19, 2004)
Some housecleaning here at Just Well Mixed
Air Marshals: Let Us Be Less Joe Friday and More Frank Serpico (Monday, July 19, 2004)
More idiocy from the Department of Homeland Security
Were We Gamed By Iran? (Tuesday, May 25, 2004)
Maybe
Hackworth on Abu Ghraib (Tuesday, May 11, 2004)
An issue of leadership
Boyd and Iraq (Monday, May 10, 2004)
Learning from the best
The Pentagon's Procurement Mess (Monday, May 3, 2004)
God damn, this stuff makes me mad
Bombs in Madrid Kill 173 (Thursday, March 11, 2004)
Terror attack on light rail by Basque separatists
Why Did Bush Let al Zarqawi Go? (Thursday, March 4, 2004)
A good question deserving of a good answer
Pakistan Pushing for bin Laden, Omar (Monday, February 23, 2004)
About time
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns (Thursday, January 8, 2004)
Thinking the unthinkable
Warm Up The Blamethrowers, Boys (Wednesday, December 17, 2003)
Sep. 11 investigation chair says attack could have and should have been prevented
Keeping Our Eye On the Ball (Monday, December 15, 2003)
A close call for Musharraf in Pakistan
Losing the War on Terror (Thursday, December 11, 2003)
More bad ideas from the people who brought you Operation Iraqi Freedom
Going 'Round the Maginot Line (Tuesday, December 9, 2003)
More thoughts on missile defense
American Maginot-ism (Sunday, December 7, 2003)
Bad ideas never die, apparently
Bogus Tanker Deal Is On The Rocks (Wednesday, December 3, 2003)
Will wonders never cease?
The Battle of Samarra, And What it Tells Us (Tuesday, December 2, 2003)
Another day, another firefight. Right? Wrong
Deflating Salon's Draft Paranoia (Wednesday, November 5, 2003)
The draft bogeyman rears his ugly head
The Air Force's Shameful Tanker Deal (Monday, October 27, 2003)
Iron triangles in action
Score One for Al Qaeda (Monday, September 22, 2003)
We're the gang that couldn't shoot straight
The Saudi Bomb? (Thursday, September 18, 2003)
Dear god
More Airline Security Follies (Tuesday, July 22, 2003)
(sigh)
Airport Security: A Keystone Kops Production (Tuesday, December 31, 2002)
So I'm flying back to Washington, DC from Dayton, OH this evening after a nice, relaxing winter holiday, and when...
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