Unqualified Offerings

Am I required to have an opinion on the Peter Arnett business?

Early on, some people were titillated by the “Russian GRU site” perporting to offer inside dope on the Iraq War from contacts in Russian military intelligence. Others pooh-poohed it is likely inauthentic and of dubious accuracy. I figured the scientific thing to do was to wait awhile. Now they’ve got a track record to look [...]

From ABC News . . .

No ‘Smoking Gun’
Hit on Ansar Al-Islam Camp Finds No Signs of Chemical Weapons
. . . The site they hit was identified by Secretary of State Colin Powell in his argument for war before the U.N. Security Council on Feb. 5 as a base for the radical group Ansar al-Islam. [...]

Virginia Postel’s weblog has a new address and a new design. You can link to a specific item by clicking on the “Printer Friendly Version” link. That’s to the good. The font size is too small for these middle-aged eyes, though, and it uses “dark” grey rather than black type for the body text, making [...]

Leonard of Unruled has a fascinating piece on the economics of the JDAM.