Defense Review: SOCOM Cancels FN Mk-16 SCAR-L (SCAR-Light) 5.56mm NATO Rifle/Carbine/SBR Weapons Program. Will the FN Mk-17 SCAR-H (SCAR-Heavy) 7.62mm NATO Variant Survive? Only the Shadow Knows.
Fabius Maximus, COIN as future generations will see it (and as we should see it today)
Free the Animal: Learning to Walk and Out with the Vibram Five Fingers and in with the Soft Star RunAmoc
Some people are not suited for office:
Female Senator Brings up Vampires, Werewolves in SCOTUS Confirmation Hearings
The Senate Jumps the Shark
Energy Bulletin:
Crazy Ideas For Crazy Garden Farmers (original)
Gene Logsdon, OrganicToBe.org
I wonder if a book titled A Guide To Insane Farming would sell, especially when, upon opening the book, the reader would encounter descriptions of how farming is actually done today. But what I’m talking about at the moment are ideas that really are off the grid, outside the box, beyond normalcy, agronomic lunacy.
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Real Gulf Crisis (original) Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press
Counterpunch:Ralph Nader, 36 Questions for Elena Kagan
Alan Farago, BP's Temple of Doom
Asia News:
Asian stock markets fall, doubts about recovery in China
Nikkei at minus 2.13; Hong Kong and Shanghai negative. Consumer confidence in the U.S. falls, forecasts for growth in China reduced from 1.7 to 0.3 (April). Yen strengthens, penalizing exports from Japan.
Asia Times:
The anatomy of an attack on Iran
The strategic and political realities of a possible Israeli air strike against Iran's nuclear facilities are complex, while the coordination of logistics and tactics of such a long-distance mission - 1,600 kilometers on a straight line from Tel Aviv to Iran's uranium enrichment site in Natanz - would be equally daunting. - David Moon
Gates open on departure
The Chinese government harbors no illusions that the change in leadership at the Pentagon when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates steps down will bring a fresh start. On matters affecting overall strategy, force structure and military posture in Asia and elsewhere, President Barack Obama is the chief architect of the tougher edge to policy. - Peter J Brown
Petraeus circles two camps
With General Stanley McChrystal out of the picture in Afghanistan, pressure is growing on US President Barack Obama to move up his July 2011 troop withdrawal timetable and get behind a negotiated settlement with the Taliban. Voices calling for an open-ended military commitment are equally strident. Incoming General David Petraeus is soon to reveal how he will weave his way between the two camps. - Jim Lobe
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