That is the word from USAF Gen. Richard Meyers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told reporters earlier this week that the Pentagon had completed a poll of Iraqis to gauge the mood toward insurgents. A DOD press article, citing “department officials speaking on background,” says the mid-July poll of 1,200 Iraqis in cities from Baghdad to Irbil revealed that 94 percent say there is no excuse for attacks on Iraqi police forces. Some 97 percent cannot excuse attacks on civilians.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.
