Backgrounder: Clues to a Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria By Jocelyn Kaiser August 28, 2013 The United States is weighing a military strike against Syria after concluding that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is responsible for an “undeniable” chemical attack that killed hundreds of people. This week, U.N. investigators are interviewing survivors and collecting samples in […]
FOX News Talks Chemical Weapons in Syria with Philip Coyle
Any US strike against Syria likely to last ‘hours not days’ By Jennifer Griffin August 27, 2013 Any U.S. strike against Syria is “likely to last hours not days” and probably would not come before the British Parliament votes on military action Thursday, a senior U.S. defense official told Fox News Sources tell Fox that […]
Bloomberg Story on Potential Syrian Chemial Weapons Usage Quotes Phil Coyle
UN Inspectors Seek to Investigate Alleged Syria Atrocity By Donna Abu-Nasr & Terry Atlas August 22, 2013 Syrian troops renewed their artillery assault on a Damascus suburb where the opposition says hundreds were killed by toxic gases, as France urged the world to respond “with force” to any use of chemical weapons. A team of […]
Wall Street Journal Letter to the Editor on Iran Sanctions by Laicie Heeley
Iran and Unintended Consequences By Laicie Heeley August 19, 2013 In their Aug. 13 op-ed, Sen. Mark Kirk and Rep. Eliot Engel claim that “Without Stronger Sanctions, Iran Will Go Nuclear.” Both this claim and the argument it supports are misleading. What Sen. Kirk and Rep. Engel fail to recognize is that further pressure will […]
Inside Defense Story on Missile Defense Testing Quotes Phil Coyle ($)
Report Charts Path Toward Greater Scientific Scrutiny Of Defense Programs By Sebastian Sprenger August 14, 2013 Defense Department officials should take greater care to ensure their programs are tested under preplanned, realistic conditions, skipping crude data analysis techniques in favor of more advanced ones to ensure better insight into system performance, according to a report […]
