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The Future Combat Systems as envisioned in 2003 are scrapped under SecDef Gates’ plan for reform, because as “it turns out, just about every assumption the Army had about its future was wrong.” Congress will argue that key FCS technologies (on the helicopter front in particular) are absolutely needed; but this is Gates’ show now.

Dylan: Obama’s “like a fictional character, but he’s real.” Will he be a good POTUS? “I have no idea… Most of those guys come into office with the best of intentions and leave as beaten men. Johnson would be a good example… Nixon, Clinton in a way, Truman, all the rest of them going back.”

We always like to highlight research: “For the past few months the media has been awash with articles discussing a new disease spreading across the USA-Mexican border, destroying lives and fueling the drug trade.” A gunblogger decides to examine the issue closer, and finds that the Mexican police reports don’t match up with the storyline.

Rescuers were digging bodies out from the collapsed ruins of dozens of houses and emergency services said the death toll was ”bound to rise.” Gianfranco Fini, speaker of Italy’s lower house of parliament, said entire towns has been “virtually destroyed” with 15,000 buildings off limits. The tremor struck at just after 3.30am local time this […]