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Satellite Access in Time of War

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fractional-T-1-just-not-cutting-it dept.

miladus writes "Interesting report in the Washington Post this morning about how the Pentagon is buying access to commercial satellites to meet its bandwidth needs. Most of the commercial access will be used for backup to the military satellites and for non-military tasks. And the Pentagon has to compete on the market with all the news organizations trying to cover the conflict in Iraq."

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  1. Re:Good idea by coolmacdude · · Score: 1, Troll

    if (we take out Saddam) future = peace; else future = more terrorist attacks;

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  2. Re:War? What war? by brodi_phillips · · Score: 1, Troll

    Right. We buy the oil from opec.... Who buys the oil from the Middle East.
    Thinking for yourself does you no good if you are misinformed.
    And the electoral process is FUCKED. Anyone with enough money can buy the presidency and screw the American people. And yes i (and i think we) are still pissed off about that.

    bp

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  3. Re:Good idea by IXI · · Score: 0, Troll

    Better the Pentagon use it for something constructive

    If you consider propagating lies like "Iraqi Scud-Attacks on Kuweit" constructive ...

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    He saw some dirty arabs and fired. Too bad it was just some friendly kurds, BBC reporters and his fellow cowboys.