What is Blogs of War?
Blogs of War is my personal blog. On it I cover politics, terrorism, technology, intelligence, foreign affairs, and the military from my fairly conservative viewpoint.
The site has been in operation for over seven years although I did not register the domain until November of 2002. At times the focus has leaned heavily towards politics (and political humor) at others it focused primarily on aerospace, defense, and technology issues. Despite my unfortunately unpredictable posting schedule the site is still heavily read in defense, intelligence, media, and federal government circles.
While I do not actively seek the spotlight Blogs of War and some of my other projects have been covered by major media around the globe - CNN, Time, The Weekly Standard, Glenn Beck, Information Week, Slate, The New York Times, and many others. Some of them even say nice things:
“Blogs of War” and other sites sometimes beat traditional sources with the latest war news. - CNN
“The epicenter of warblogging…” - Internet and Social Change
Who Are You?
My name is John Little. I’m 39. I live and work in Houston, Texas where I am a Program Manager for a large hospital.
Before jumping into healthcare I spent a number of years in aerospace working in and around NASA’s Johnson Space Center for a variety of contractors including Loral, Lockheed-Martin, and SAIC. Notable jobs during those days included serving as a field engineer for the Shuttle Training Aircraft program and later as the webmaster for the Space Shuttle Program Office’s secure global extranet (SSPWEB) via the United Space Alliance Space Flight Operations Contract (SFOC).
More recently I co-founded, and served as the CEO, of bAnywhere.com. I’m no longer affiliated with bAnywhere.com but my partner and I had quite a bit of success developing wireless applications for the Palm VII platform. Our customers included Palm Computing, Lockheed-Martin, and the PGA Tour. We developed some really interesting systems, in the brief period that the platform was supported, including the first use of a wireless PDA to send commands to an orbiting satellite (more about that here) and a system that would deliver real-time PGA Tour scores to wireless PDA users.