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I think the conventional wisdom is that Iraq has learned at least something from Kosovo. Here's an interesting story of how they defeated U.S. radar seeking missles with microwave ovens. Could this be true?

- jim 4-01-2003 3:38 am [link] [4 comments]

If it's true that we don't seem to be able to knock out Iraqi communications infrastructure, I wonder if they might be using UWB wireless. Could the U.S. even do anything about that?

Here's an old Cringley piece on ultra wide band, if you want to know what it is.
- jim 4-01-2003 12:47 am [link] [add a comment]

Andrew Tyndall tirelessly tracks network news broadcasts, publishing a weekly newsletter, The Tyndall Report, with an exhaustive breakdown of minutes of coverage given to all major stories. Plus some quick analysis. Especially interesting now, I think.
- jim 3-31-2003 11:27 pm [link] [add a comment]

Last one for now. Just something to remember:

"I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk."

Dick Cheney, "Meet the Press", March 16, 2003

Can anyone find a definitive link establishing the validity of this quote? (I'm sure it's accurate, I just want a link.) I'm looking too. I'll report back any findings.

[update: I believe this quote is not accurate. Discussion inside.]
- jim 3-31-2003 6:33 pm [link] [7 comments]

I have no time for this today. Lots of work to do. But I hope to say something soon about the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" and, to a lesser extent, the term "terrorism." These two terms are very dangerous because they are much in use right now, and yet they both appear to have no meaning.

If I was editor of this website I'd assign Bruno with the linguistic backgrounder on these terms - both their use and misuse - and Frank with the (L.R.J influenced) piece on the danger of words with no meanings. Of course I wield no such power, so you'll have to suffer through my no doubt inferior take on these matters.

As soon as I get a few moments.
- jim 3-31-2003 6:24 pm [link] [6 comments]

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