Monthly Archives: February 2005

Millennium Challenge – how could Rummy have expected that them damned Injuns wouldn’t fight fair?

On Thursday Lt. General William Wallace, commander of US Army forces in the Persian Gulf, said “The enemy we’re fighting is a bit different than the one we war-gamed against”….As Slate’s Fred Kaplan pointed out on Friday, however, Wallace’s statement simply isn’t true. “Militia fighters did play a crucial role in a major war game designed to simulate combat in

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Read my lips – no new draft

Bush swears that there will be no draft on his watch, period, and I continue to be skeptical. If I buy all I’m being told, and then do some basic common sensing around some things the administration is pointedly not saying – out loud, anyway – I can’t help concluding that we probably don’t have the manpower we need to

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ChoicePoint debacle

ChoicePoint Inc., a national provider of identification and credential verification services, says it will send an additional 110,000 statements to people informing them of possible identity theft after a group of well-organized criminals was able to obtain personal information on almost 140,000 consumers through the company. According to a statement on the ChoicePoint Web site, the incident was not the

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