The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Mess. All Ahead Backwards
The Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) after two decades of development and production have nothing to show for with its $500m to $655m per ship price tag.
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The Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) after two decades of development and production have nothing to show for with its $500m to $655m per ship price tag.
News...Americans are outraged by allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an intelligence service to hack email accounts of the Democratic National Committee. How inexpressibly heinous that one country, Russia, would try to influence elections in another sovereign country, in this case the United States! How unprecedented!
For two decades, the Pentagon has been applying the “Rumsfeld/Cebrowski doctrine” to the “wider Middle East”. Several times, it thought of extending it to the “Caribbean Basin”, but refrained from doing so, concentrating its power on its first target. The Pentagon acts as an autonomous decision-making center that is effectively outside the power of the president. It is a civil-military administration that imposes its objectives on the rest of the military. In my book L’Effroyable imposture [1] [2], I wrote, in March, 2002, that the attacks of September ...