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Developmental Flight Testing is all about the data. That’s it. Period. Engineers, scientists, and operators conduct tests to get data. Data is the exact opposite of politics, especially today’s politics represented by a comical and debilitating election season. Data is truth. The impact of the data on the world is much larger than the impact on […]
Earlier this week, Secretary Clinton made a statement about the Pentagon’s plan to upgrade the nuclear arsenal. “The last thing we need, are sophisticated cruise missiles that are nuclear armed.”[1] The National Interest was quick to pile on, and declare that nuclear cruise missiles are “relics of the past.”[2] But are they? Hillary Clinton spent […]
The Battle of Cambrai took place in 1917. Trench warfare, where victory was measured in thousands of lives and inches of mud, had gone on for three years. It was a world war of attrition, and it was all the world knew. Defenses were too good; there was no way to break through until the […]
Technology is not strategy. Rather, it is subordinate to strategy and policy. Strategic problems should be solved by policy or strategy, not technology. Technology can shape strategy and doctrine by enabling or defeating capabilities not previously capable. But technology sometimes develops against the grain of the bureaucracy. Disruptive technologies are those that challenge the established […]
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