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POPSSeal Team 6 Fears for It's Safety: Information Leaks Worry Quote: We are very concerned for the security of our families, of your families and our troops and also these elite units that were engaged in things like that and without getting into any details, I would tell you that when I met with the team last Thursday, they expressed a concern about that and particular concern with respect to their families. He then dropped this bombshell, according to The Blaze. Quote: Frankly a week ago Sunday in the situation room we all agreed that we would not release any operational details about the effort to take out Osama Bin Laden. That fell apart the very next day.” “Let me tell you something. If any besides on the battlefield, if any family member of SEAL team or any member of the SEAL teams or our Delta forces are targeted and killed by Muslim extremists, this administration will be responsible for it. You do not leak information about our Delta and SEAL teams. You don’t do it.”
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POPSFY 2012 Defense Budget Proposal: Looking for Cuts in All the Wrong Places
Weakness #3: The proposed defense budget would shortchange modernization, in part by reducing procurement funding in the OCO budget Weakness #4: Inadequate funding for research and development Weakness #5: An insufficient commitment to modernizing the nuclear weapons complex and missile defense The Growing Commitment Gap The Obama Administration is bluffing when it asserts that a U.S. military capacity that is sharply curtailed by budget reductions can adequately meet the nation’s security commitments to itself and its allies around the world. Bluffing is a dangerous approach to national security. To keep the federal government’s commitment to defend the American people against strategic attack, the U.S. needs a strategic posture that consists of a thoroughly modernized mix of offensive and defensive capabilities as well as nuclear and conventional strategic weapons to hold at risk potential enemies’ means of strategic attack. These strategic forces also serve the . . .
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POPSGates’ Plan for Post-Gadhafi Libya A “preferable” option for getting rid of Gadhafi, Gates speculated, was that “someone from his military takes him out and cuts a deal with the opposition.” But neither the U.S. nor NATO, he testified, would take military steps to topple Gadhafi more... Gates’ Plan for Post-Gadhafi Libya: Don’t Get Involved http://bit.ly/eD0OJE http://www.wired.com
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POPSDude, Seriously? Hillary as SecDef? Senate Condemns "General Betray Us" Ad WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Thursday to condemn an advertisement by the liberal anti-war group MoveOn.org that accused the top Senate Condemns "General Betray Us" Ad The 72-25 vote condemned the full-page ad that appeared in The New York Times last week as Gen. David Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq, testified on Capitol Hill. The ad was headlined: "General Petraeus or General Betray Us? Cooking the books for the White House." http://bit.ly/cNTJVA http://www.breitbart.com http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00344 Clinton (D-NY), Nay Obama (D-IL), Not Voting http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00344
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POPSVideos Posted by Rethink Afghanistan--Civilians killed by NATO These collateral damage murders are not reported by the MSM, or at least rarely and not in context. These obscenities are blood on Obama's hand, along with SecDef gates and the Generals who insist that we escalate hostilities. All doomed to a special place in Hell. I hope they die a painful death soon.
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POPSIranian Bomb: Still 2010-2015? Or 2008? The 2008 or 2009 estimate is easy to understand—Iran could, with the current 1,968 centrifuges operating at 1.5-2.0 kg SWU per year and assuming 4.8 t SWU/a to produce 25 kg of 90 percent HEU, produce a significant quantity of HEU in 14-19 months or, say, September 2008-February 2009.
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POPSMurtha Blocks Iraq Funding to pass a funding bill, and Democratic leaders refuse to bring for a vote clean legislation that would pass with largely Republican support. Nevertheless, Murtha believes it's appropriate to nickel and dime the Pentagon, while holding up long-term funding. Service members, including those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and essential civilians would serve without pay, while nonessential civilian employees would be furloughed, the department said. But don't worry: Congress supports the troops.
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POPSObama's Military Adviser - Worst Chief of Staff Ever? I was a young LT, a wrench-turner, assigned to the 351st Strategic Missile Wing when McPeak was Chief of Staff. In addition to his most notable legacy --the infamous uniform changes that were immediately repealed when he retired-- McPeak was the man who dissolved Strategic Air Command. We were reassigned to 8th Air Force under his new Air Combat Command, and with the abolishment of SAC went many of the long standing regulations that guided the control and transport of nuclear weapons. It was only a matter of time before the Air Force suffered an embarassing nuclear incident. McPeak's name is still a dirty word in many military circles. He was a deeply unpopular Chief of Staff (October 1990 - October 1994) --though he was, by all accounts, a phenomenal fighter pilot and a real hero of the Vietnam War. The Gates purge was very new-war, very 21st century. McPeak's changes, though originally configured for the Cold War, never really had a place in any century.
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