They had all the radios in the world. They had complete interoperability. That was not a hardware problem. That was a people and procedure problem. |
They have all kinds of people that would like to embrace martyrdom. |
They just weren't going to give Connecticut a big, wet kiss like that without some payback. |
They recognized that our air power was just going to brush aside their conventional forces, which is what happened in the early part of the ground campaign. They knew that the only chance they had was to wage a struggle against us that marginalized our air power. |
They're all armed. If they weren't, they'd be in trouble. There are clan rivalries there. Without a weapon they'd feel naked. |
They're not just training. They're going in there and tracking down evildoers. |
They've hired a lot of new people. You know they are not all going to be adequately trained, that's a fact of life. |
This is their Kennedy Space Center. All they've got connecting the building where they assemble the missiles and the launch pad is a dirt road through the middle of a rice paddy. |
Three in just slightly more than six months, versus two in the previous four years, has the makings of a trend. |
To have a generic evacuation requirement that is not scenario-specific is unrealistic. Different areas have different levels of requirement for evacuation. Everybody needs to have a pandemic influenza plan. Not everybody needs to have a hurricane plan. |
To make sure there is some money left over at the end of the year, they're going to cut costs. A good place to cut costs is security. |
Today, you're much less worried about maritime patrol aircraft coming after you and a lot more worried about dropping bombs on the bad guys. |
We knew it would be easy money if we could find a place. |
We're going to have two companies building two rockets out of one factory, which is the worst of all possible worlds. |
We're supposed to be in winter, but it doesn't look like any winter weather is coming. |