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    EVENTS

    My Daily Reminder We are in BizzaroLand

    Who can look at a decrepit cheeseburger-sucking lardass with bone spurs and dementia and see, within that shambling wreckage, a powerful bringer of violent revenge?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 4, 2020
    • Art, It's Tactical!, Militarism

    The Beginning of An End

    The F-35 program has been a litany of glitches and problems, many as a result of the program’s pork distribution approach.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 21, 2020
    • Burn it to the ground, Militarism, War is a Racket

    Procurement Disasterpalooza

    Back in 2002, I wrote (regarding the US government’s cybersecurity efforts), “adding money to a disaster doesn’t necessarily help get it done, most of the time you just wind up with bigger, more expensive disasters.”

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 19, 2020
    • Burn it to the ground, Militarism, War is a Racket

    Handling Plutonium

    This is interesting stuff. For one thing, it does a good job of showing the extreme lengths that you must go to to obtain even tiny amounts of plutonium.

    [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 2, 2019
    • Militarism, Nationalism is Bullshit, War is a Racket

    The Kurds (Again)

    Controversy swirls around Trump’s declaration that US troops will leave Syria, where they have been sitting as a buffer between Turkish troops and Kurdish irregulars. [stderr]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • October 8, 2019
    • Genocide, Militarism, Politics, War is a Racket

    Meanwhile, Everywhere Else in the World

    I’m going to engage in some mild “whatabout”ism regarding our (my?) reaction to the fire in Paris.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 17, 2019
    • Burn it to the ground, Militarism, Nationalism is Bullshit, Religion, War is a Racket

    In 5 Years There Will Be Moaning and Wailing

    I’ve set a reminder in my calendar and I’ll do the googling and analysis so you don’t have to. Assuming we all survive, that is.

    [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 2, 2019
    • Militarism, Operations, Technology

    Knew This Was Coming

    The US is going to pull out of the Reagan/Gorbachev agreements restricting nuclear weapons. The story is that it’s because the Russians are cheating.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • October 22, 2018
    • Militarism, Nationalism is Bullshit, Totalitarianism

    Yeah, But Does it Help Against Global Warming?

    This probably isn’t a very effective survival system for a nuclear attack.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • October 17, 2018
    • Burn it to the ground, I get spam, Militarism, Silliness

    Downsides of a Primarily Offensive Strategy

    Offensive strategies are good if (and only if) you have an identifiable, small, number of foes that you can dominate.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • October 16, 2018
    • Cyberwar, Militarism, Nationalism is Bullshit
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