The Army has been planting stories favorable to the coalition in Iraqi newspapers, according to documents obtained by the L.A. Times. The Financial Times weighed in today: Many of the articles are presented in the Iraqi press as unbiased news accounts written and reported by independent journalists. The stories trumpet the work of U.S. and […]
From the monthly archives:
November 2005
Well, so much for those plans to withdraw American forces from Iraq. President Bush’s big speech at the Naval Academy “did not break new ground or present a new strategy,” the AP notes. So that means, despite the chatter beforehand, no new schedule for bringing troops home. What Bush did say is that “as Iraqi […]
In this age of rising shipbuilding costs, uncertain naval strategy and shrinking procurement budgets, nobody knows for sure what the future U.S. fleet will look like. But one thing’s for sure … it’ll include a lot of pontoon boats. Everybody knows about the much-ballyhooed Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), a program for up to 75 small […]
Earlier this year, former Army intel officer (and Defense Tech homeboy) Kris Alexander told our spooks to start blogging if they wanted to get serious about tracking terrorist-types. Afterwards, he got a flood of e-mails from government suits asking him for help to implement the idea. I’m not sure if CIA agents were among the […]
Over the last year, we’ve spent a whole lot of time chronicling the woes of the Joint Tactical Radio System. That’s the Pentagon’s star-crossed $6.8 billion effort to replace their with just a few digital ones. It’s the backbone of the military’s effort to modernize itself. And it is not going well. But “Jitters,” as […]
