Archive for the 'War' Category
U.S. Carrier Strike Group Sails Toward Korean Peninsula After North’s Missile Test
April 8th, 2017Via: Military.com: The U.S. Navy’s Carl Vinson carrier strike group has been ordered to cancel planned port visits in Australia and move to the Western Pacific, just four days after the rogue state of North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile from its eastern coast. Officials with U.S. Third Fleet announced Saturday night that the San […]
U.S. Envoy to UN Threatens Further Military Action in Syria
April 8th, 2017Via: france24: The United States on Friday threatened to take further military action in Syria following its missile strikes on an air base in the war-wracked country in retaliation for a suspected chemical attack. “The United States took a very measured step last night,” US Ambassador Nikki Haley told the UN Security Council. “We are […]
U.S. Fires Missiles at Assad Airbase, Escalating Tensions with Russia
April 7th, 2017Well, Hillary supporters, maybe you’ll get that war with Russia anyway. Via: Reuters: The United States on Friday fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched this week, an escalation of the U.S. military role in Syria that immediately raised tension with Russia. […]
Super SEALs: Elite Units Pursue Brain-Stimulating Technologies
April 3rd, 2017Via: Military.com: At a conference near Washington, D.C., in February, the commander of all Navy special operations units made an unusual request to industry: Develop and demonstrate technologies that offer “cognitive enhancement” capabilities to boost his elite forces’ mental and physical performance. “We plan on using that in mission enhancement,” Rear Adm. Tim Szymanski said. […]
Cyborgs at Work: Employees Getting Implanted with Microchips
April 3rd, 2017Like many of you out there, I first heard about this technology in the 1990s. Decades later, a passive microchip implant seems like a practically innocuous fairy tale compared to the privacy hell that has metastasized all around us. In terms of technologies of political control, think of a chip implant as something like a […]
Eleven Killed in Suspected Suicide Bombing on Russian Metro Train
April 3rd, 2017Via: Reuters: A blast in a St Petersburg train carriage on Monday that killed 11 people and wounded 45 was carried out by a suspected suicide bomber with ties to radical Islamists, Russia’s Interfax news agency cited a law enforcement source as saying. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was in the city when the blast […]
With Trump Approval, Pentagon Expands Warfighting Authority
April 1st, 2017Via: AP: Week by week, country by country, the Pentagon is quietly seizing more control over warfighting decisions, sending hundreds more troops to war with little public debate and seeking greater authority to battle extremists across the Middle East and Africa. This week it was Somalia, where President Donald Trump gave the U.S. military more […]
Five Pound Mini-Nukes
March 18th, 2017Via: CNBC: As for the mini-nukes, Del Monte expects they represent “the most horrific near-term nanoweapons.” Nanotechnology opens up the possibility to manufacture mini-nuke components so small that they are difficult to screen and detect. Furthermore, the weapon (capable of an explosion equivalent to about 100 tons of TNT) could be compact enough to fit […]
Rex Tillerson: Military Action Against North Korea Is ‘On the Table’
March 17th, 2017Via: NBC: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Friday that military action against North Korea was “on the table” if the country continued to develop its weapons program. “If they elevate the threat of their weapons program to a level that we believe requires action then that option is on the table,” he told a […]
Toy Drone Shot Down with Patriot Missile
March 15th, 2017Raytheon doesn’t mind. Meanwhile, in France: French Military Trains Eagles to Hunt Drones Via: BBC: A Patriot missile – usually priced at about $3m (£2.5m) – was used to shoot down a small quadcopter drone, according to a US general. The strike was made by a US ally, Gen David Perkins told a military symposium. […]
