Yale, The Black Panthers, and the Army
Yale, the Black Panthers, and the Army Black Panthers publication In May 1970, at the same time as Kent State was becoming a symbol of the country’s extreme division over the Vietnam [...]
Kent State University and the Aftermath
Four Dead in Ohio - National Guard troops at Kent State University Student protestors on the Kent State campus My single worst intelligence assessment was in underestimating the future extensive campus demonstrations [...]
Kwajalein Atoll—The Ronald Reagan Missile Test Site
Kwajalein Atoll - The Ronald Reagan Missile Test Site Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands Kwajalein Atoll was then the western terminus of the Pacific Missile Test Range. Then and now, [...]
Johnston Atoll and the Origins of Space Warfare
Johnston Atoll and the Origins of Space Warfare Kwajalein Atoll is about as far west of Hawaii as Los Angeles is its east Iknew Kwajalein was going to be a very different [...]
NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain
NORAD's Missile Defense Operational Role NORAD tunnel to Command Complex My following visit to Cheyenne Mountain and NORAD’s Headquarters wasn’t just interesting and useful. It turned out to be absolutely fascinating as [...]
Huntsville, Alabama, and the Army Missile Command
Huntsville, Alabama and the Army Missile Command The Redstone Arsenal and the Safeguard Anti-ballistic Missile (ABM) System Stanley Mickelson Safeguard Perimeter Radar (PAR) As I thought about what it would take to [...]
The Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile System
Mickelson Safeguard Anti-ballistic Missile Base, Nekoma, North Dakota Initial Safeguard deployment plan Though large antiwar demonstrations and racial disturbances were a common part of the American scene when I was in the [...]
The Blue U and CIA Training
The Blue U (aka The Blue Goose) North Glebe Road (Virginia Route 120) and Fairfax Drive ( Route 237) Arlington, VA 2015 The Blue U (aka the Blue Goose) being demolished In [...]
The Army Operations Center (AOC)
1969 Richard Nixon Counter-Inauguration Protest The 1967 emergency deployment to Detroit had caught the Army by surprise, and Secretary Vance had also recommended that a new war room in the Pentagon be built to coordinate up to [...]
