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Huge Defense Planning Document Leaks; What Does It Mean for the Budget?

By | 01.28.10 | 10:49 am

Apropos of my story today about the consistently-ballooning defense budget, Defense News has a leak of the Quadrennial Defense Review, the Pentagon’s big planning document that, among other things, is supposed to shape the budget. This is just a leak of a draft, and not the final document. More…

Iraq, Reconciliation and … Robots

By | 04.27.09 | 8:44 am

Read this great New York Times piece for a taste of how intractable the difficulties with reconciliation in Iraq are. To fully understand it, let’s imagine that instead of human beings, Iraq and the United States were populated by super-intelligent machines. Were you a RationalBot8000, you would say to More…