Comments on: DoD Suppressed Critique of Military Research http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/10/dod_suppressed.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Thu, 24 May 2012 10:04:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: George Smith http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/10/dod_suppressed.html/comment-page-1#comment-5317 George Smith Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:48:31 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=2842#comment-5317 <i>The DoD research laboratories should be abolished, the late Gen. William Odom suggested some years ago. “Few of them have invented anything of note in several decades, and many of the things they are striving to develop are already available in the commercial sector,” he wrote.</i> What a good suggestion. And it's not surprising no one heeded it. Indeed, I agree: Did you know "[the] U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., is interested in receiving research proposals on the best technologies for Counter Directed Energy Weapons (CDEW) to protect Navy and Marine Corps ships, submarines, aircraft, and other weapons from directed-energy weapons such as high energy laser technology, non-lethal weapons like laser 'dazzlers,' high power microwave transmitters, particle beam technology, or pulsed high power electromagnetic systems?" And there is literally almost no way in hell to get rid of even the most meretricious weapons development projects ... Or <a HREF="http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2009/10/laughable-country-laughable-country-is.html" rel="nofollow">here</A>. The DoD research laboratories should be abolished, the late Gen. William Odom suggested some years ago. “Few of them have invented anything of note in several decades, and many of the things they are striving to develop are already available in the commercial sector,” he wrote.

What a good suggestion. And it’s not surprising no one heeded it. Indeed, I agree:

Did you know “[the] U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., is interested in receiving research proposals on the best technologies for Counter Directed Energy Weapons (CDEW) to protect Navy and Marine Corps ships, submarines, aircraft, and other weapons from directed-energy weapons such as high energy laser technology, non-lethal weapons like laser ‘dazzlers,’ high power microwave transmitters, particle beam technology, or pulsed high power electromagnetic systems?”

And there is literally almost no way in hell to get rid of even the most meretricious weapons development projects …

Or here.

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