Obama is, indeed, a naïf for assuming that "the nuclear ambitions of Kim Jong-il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be curtailed or abandoned in response to reductions in the American and Russian deterrent forces."

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The U.S. military's rescue of a kidnapped American ship captain yesterday was "textbook," but the issue of piracy is likely to worsen in the absence of a systemic solution, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today.

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Continuity is likely to come in the form of Gates and military commanders leading the war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan, while a new deputy and team of undersecretaries would manage the Pentagon and focus on longer-range issues such as "the budget, the Quadrennial Defense Review …

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Paul Brinkley, a deputy undersecretary of defense, has been called a Stalinist by U.S. diplomats in Iraq. One has accused him of helping insurgents build better bombs.

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"A US satellite has launched that will gather information that could be used for a future missile defence system in space. The satellite will study rocket exhaust plumes to glean information that would help future interceptors home in on enemy missiles."

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Truman Arnold Companies, Alcoa, Tenn., * is being awarded a maximum $8,136,484 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for jet fuel. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Federal civilian agencies.

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A drill planned to demonstrate the Navy's ability to knock down two incoming missiles at once from the same ship failed off Hawaii's coast on Thursday, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said

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The military is using an old technology for a new application. A shell containing hundreds of steel arrows is deployed to clear areas of landmines. The novel approach has yeilded impressive results so far.

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