Navy

Open Thread - Blackwater Revives Mission

Submitted by avahome on April 23, 2008 - 12:24

Looks like Blackwater just can't take no for an answer... Now Blackwater wants to train Navy personnel for crisis situations at sea. Wonder how much bucks this is gonna cost us taxpayers???

Security contractor plans training center

April 23, 2008

Although Blackwater Worldwide has given up its plans to build a training center in East County, the government contractor is still seeking a presence in San Diego County.

Blackwater, San Diego, Navy, Training, CA

GWOT Chronicles: Strategy Schmategy

Submitted by Jeff Huber on March 17, 2008 - 08:47

"Isn't it odd that after a terrorist attack that relied on $2 box-cutters, we are redoubling our pursuit of fantastical weaponry?" — Robert Scheer

Someday we Americans will look back on our Global War on Terror and ask ourselves what the hell we thought we were doing. Here’s one of our latest shenanigans.

In case you hadn't noticed, we're using nuclear submarines to assassinate terrorists these days. That’s not the most efficient way to assassinate terrorists, but it’s the most expensive, so it has that going for it.

Even assassinating terrorists with B-2 stealth bombers wouldn’t be as expensive as doing it with nuclear submarines. B-2s cost a ridiculous amount of money, all right, but not as much as the subs. The subs carry a lot more people and take a lot longer to get where they’re going, so the people in them have to eat and sleep and so forth. The two pilots in a B-2 eat box lunches and can go to the bathroom without getting up from their seats. And then there are those expensive nuclear reactors, which nuclear submarines have and B-2s don’t.

And as ridiculous as the cost of an F-22 air-to-air stealth fighter is, it’s less ridiculous than the cost of a B-2 stealth bomber, and there are other drawbacks to using an F-22 to assassinate terrorists as well.

Iran, George W. Bush, Pakistan, Navy, GWOT, terror, Somalia