As a security and privacy measure, John McKittrick is the pen name of an ornery, opinionated American missile defense insider.
An executive at a defense contractor, McKittrick ultimately works for the Missile Defense Agency and the Department of Defense. His views are his alone and everything presented here is UNCLASSIFIED. Indeed, McKittrick's blog posting policy is anything remotely sensitive requires a link to information already in the public domain. Always. If he suddenly clams up or shuts down a comment thread, please realize he's not going to lose his security clearance for Blog Glory or for the entertainment of random internet drifters --- McKittrick's no dummy, you nosy hippies, commies & jihadis.
Do note, McKittrick is not a rocket scientist --- but he manages some and drinks beer with others. So while some readers may want to discuss burn-out velocities and the nuances of Lambert missile guidance, let's not and say we did.
McKittrick also blogs/comments under the pseudonym Cuffy Meigs at Perfunction, but that's just screedy political stuff and moronic pop culture observations. All of his early missile defense posts were done over there and have been re-posted here (alas, the comments did not make it over. Sorry).
Unlike Perfunction, Closing Velocity is serious missile defense insight ... with a sprinkling of screedy political stuff. After all, as a missile defense exec and policy advocate, that is McKittrick's day job.
What to Expect from Closing Velocity
McKittrick will tell it like it is.
While he's one of the only rightie bloggers exclusively covering missile defense and an avid supporter of its strategic concept (for both philosophical and shabby, filthy mercantilistic reasons), he'll report the facts --- successes and failures.
But he'll also relish in smacking around the boneheaded critics of missile defense and their intransigently unchanged circa 1987 fact-sets and lazy, moldy tropes ("Star Wars!!1!one!!"). Destroying a skeptic who still thinks we're parking Giant Frickin' Lasers in orbit is a real treat.
So, enjoy your visit at Closing Velocity and please come back often. Missile defense is sure to get very interesting now in this new era of Hope and Change and Unicorns.
Tips & Communication
Non-spammers can reach McKittrick at john.d.mckittrick - Google mail. Figure it out, rocket scientist --- consider it a countermeasure.
PS: The "real" McKittrick:
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