Feb. 11, 2010 — At 8:44 p.m. (PST), a short-range threat-representative ballistic missile was launched from an at-sea mobile launch platform. Within seconds, the ALTB used onboard sensors to detect the boosting missile and used a low-energy laser to track the target. The ALTB then fired a second low-energy laser to measure and compensate for atmospheric disturbance. Finally, the ALTB fired its megawatt-class High Energy Laser, heating the boosting ballistic missile to critical structural failure. The entire engagement occurred within two minutes of the target missile launch, while its rocket motors were still thrusting.

I watched this thought-provoking movie at a special showing at the French Embassy in Washington last night. The 30-minute film depicts the process by which the United States determined if detainees at Guantánamo were properly classified as unlawful enemy combatants. The movie’s biggest virtue: It plays it right down the middle and leaves it for you to decide what the U.S. response should be to an enemy who doesn’t play by our rules, and doesn’t want the war to ever end.

My former colleague at CNN, Dave Schechter, who always pointed me in the right direction, came upon this site, http://​www​.intheirboots​.com . Check out Dave’s blog, and watch the video. You will not be sorry.

http://​ac360​.blogs​.cnn​.com/​2​0​1​0​/​0​1​/​2​9​/​i​n​-​t​h​e​i​r​-​b​o​o​ts/

Jamie appears on Fox News Channel to discuss Haiti overflight with Shannon Bream. Sunday, January 17, 2010 1pm EST.

My overflight of Haiti Saturday, Jan 16, 2010 in an U.S. Air Force “Open Skies” reconnaissance aircraft. (U.S. Air Force still photographs by Airman 1st Class Perry Aston.)

Jamie McIntyre discusses failures that allowed attempted bombing by Umar Farouk Abdulmullatab of Northwest Airlines flight Christmas Day with Shannon Bream, of the Fox News Channel, Sunday, January 10, 2010

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Combined Joint Task Force-82 video of an air weapons team engaging and killing insurgents when responding to the insurgents’ complex attack on a small patrol base in Paktia province May 27. The video shows 14 insurgents carrying automatic rifles, rocket propelled grenades and a mortar round fleeing the scene after they attacked the outpost with indirect fire, rocket propelled grenades and smalls arms fire.
The pilot of an Apache AH64 helicopter is heard verbally checking to make sure the militants are far enough away from any qalats, or Afghan homes, so that shooting the militants will not endanger any civilians.

British soldiers launch an operation to push insurgent forces away from the hydroelectric dam in Kajaki

A compilation of three clips showing a UH60 Black Hawk landing on a mountaintop in Zabul, Afghanistan, to insert coalition ground forces Nov. 6. Lt. Col. Carey Wagen and co-pilot Chief Warrant Officer Jesse Ashhurst, both members of 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, or Task Force Pegasus.