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National Security
A Peek at Pentagon Pork: A Taxpayers' Guide
Winslow Wheeler, Battleland
Pentagon Spending Spree: Throwing Money at the Military Doesn't Buy Us Safety
Elizabeth Rose, Other Words
Does Anybody Still Need Aircraft Carriers?
Tom de Castella, BBC
Building a True 21st Century U.S. Military
Douglas A. Macgregor, Battleland
Lockheed: F-35 Oxygen System 'Very Different' Than Troubled Sibling
John T. Bennett, U.S. News & World Report
IT Company Helps Pentagon Try Out Fast-Track Acquisition Approach
Zachary Fryer-Biggs, Defense News
When the Tragedy of Two Marines Killed in a Crash Becomes a Nightmare
Miranda Green, The Daily Beast
Vintage Spy Plane Gives High-Tech Drone a Run for Its Money
Larry Abramson, NPR
Financial Oversight
Bank Regulators Under Scrutiny in JPMorgan Loss
Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Ben Protess, The New York Times
Contract Oversight
DoD's Contract Audit Agency Hobbled by Backlog
Sarah Chacko, Federal Times
Energy Issues
BP Probed on Leak Estimates
Tom Fowler, The Wall Street Journal
The U-2 is a piece of crap. The only thing it does well is ensure LockMart makes plenty of money off the US taxpayer. Hell, you have to have a secure RF link to send the pictures back to the appropriate intelligence agency anyway, you might as well fly the airplane from there too and no risk the public debacle that lead to the airplane that should have replaced the U-2 decades ago, the SR-71. Instead we live in a world where the good airplane was retired because it didn't need continual upgrades and the crappy airplane continues to fly because it makes the most money for the defense contractor. I remember when this country was run by men rather than by multi-national corporations. Those days didn't suck.
Posted by: Dfens | May 29, 2012 at 03:59 PM