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Theresa Hitchens on May 07, 2021 at 4:59 PM
Acting Air Force Secretary John Roth, left
WASHINGTON: Key House lawmakers today pushed the Air Force to move faster, and farther, to reform space acquisition with both HAC-D Chair Rep. Betty McCollum and Ranking Member Rep. Ken Calvert expressing concern about the slow pace.
In particular, lawmakers expressed impatience at the lack of movement toward creation of a new space acquisition czar independent of the Air Force’s assistant secretary for acquisition and integration (a post formerly held by Will Roper; now in an acting role by Darlene Costello).
“I am very concerned about the lack of progress with fixing these long-standing problems with space acquisition,” said McCollum. She stressed the importance of the new assistant secretary as the person with the authority to “make decisions on the budget and to align the resources with those acquisitions.” Breaking D readers remember that the biggest reason Congress b
The Rising Threat Of Nuclear War Is The Most Urgent Matter In The World zerohedge.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from zerohedge.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Thursday, 22 April 2021, 4:13 pm
US Strategic Command, the branch of the US military
responsible for America s nuclear arsenal, tweeted
the following on Tuesday: The spectrum of conflict
today is neither linear nor predictable. We must account for
the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which
could very rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear
use as their least bad option.
The statement, which
STRATCOM called a preview of the Posture Statement it
submits to US Congress every year, was a bit intense for
Twitter and sparked
a lot of alarmed responses. This alarm was due not to
any inaccuracy in STRATCOM s frank statement, but due to the
The U.S. Strategic Command Just Casually Tweeted About Nuclear War
On 4/20/21 at 7:43 AM EDT
The U.S. Strategic Command has suggested its adversaries may consider nuclear use in a bizarre tweet released in the middle of Monday night. Posture Statement Preview, the agency prefaced the tweet which was issued just before midnight E.T. The spectrum of conflict today is neither linear nor predictable. We must account for the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could very rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear use as their least bad option.
The strange statement elicited a slew of panicked responses from those on Twitter who were quick to ask for clarification.
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