Archive for the 'War' Category
China Creates Air Defence Zone Over Japan-Controlled Islands
November 23rd, 2013Via: AFP: Beijing on Saturday announced it was setting up an “air defence identification zone” over an area that includes islands controlled by Japan but claimed by China, in a move that could inflame the bitter territorial row. Along with the creation of the zone in the East China Sea, the defence ministry released a […]
How One Inspector General Is Fighting Fraud and Waste in Afghanistan
November 23rd, 2013Via: The Week: After 12 years of war, you would think the war planners and defense contractors have the situation in Afghanistan well in hand. And they do, if the goal is wasteful spending on such a colossal scale that it makes Healthcare.gov look like Amazon.com. The magnitude of the ongoing fiscal irresponsibility in Afghanistan […]
This Massive Robot Could Soon Join Marines on the Battlefield
November 23rd, 2013Via: Defense One: The future doesn’t always arrive with a gasp and a boom like Skynet inTerminator. No, sometimes it’s more like Office Space. At least that’s the idea I get watching this video of the Marines’ testing the Legged Squad Support System. DARPA built the LS3 to act as an autonomous pack horse that […]
Air Force Seeks Laser Weapons for Next Generation Fighters
November 21st, 2013Via: U.S. Naval Institute: The U.S. Air Force has released a new request for a high-powered laser weapon that could be mounted on a next-generation air dominance fighter in the post-2030 era.
Britain Operated Death Squad in Belfast in 1972
November 20th, 2013Via: BBC: Soldiers from an undercover unit used by the British army in Northern Ireland killed unarmed civilians, former members have told BBC One’s Panorama. Speaking publicly for the first time, the ex-members of the Military Reaction Force (MRF), which was disbanded in 1973, said they had been tasked with “hunting down” IRA members in […]
#Let’s Cook: Feds Stop North Korean Meth ‘Floodgate’ Into New York
November 20th, 2013Via: New York Observer: Is Walter White working out of North Korea? According to federal authorities, five men were arrested in New York this week for attempting to bring over 200 pounds of methamphetamine from the dictatorial regime into the Empire State. (Mirroring the quality of “Blue Magic” meth produced in Breaking Bad, the illegal […]
Behind the Pentagon’s Doctored Ledgers, a Running Tally of Epic Waste
November 20th, 2013Never forget: Trillions: I would argue that Chalmers Johnson’s estimate was corroborated on September 10, 2001, on the eve of the worst terrorist attack in US history, when Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged during a press conference that the Department of Defense (DoD) could not account for $2.3 trillion of the massive Pentagon budget, […]
U.S. Troops to Remain in Afghanistan, “Perhaps Indefinitely”
November 20th, 2013Via: NBC: While many Americans have been led to believe the war in Afghanistan will soon be over, a draft of a key U.S.-Afghan security deal obtained by NBC News shows the United States is prepared to maintain military outposts in Afghanistan for many years to come, and pay to support hundreds of thousands of […]
Catapult-Launched Bat Drone Wages Electronic War
November 18th, 2013Via: Wired: Small, tactical drones may have a new role in military strikes after Northrop Grumman’s catapult-launched Bat demonstrated an electronic attack capability for the first time in new tests. With its 12-foot wingspan, the low-flying Bat, which maxes out at 70 miles per hour, was able to jam radar during tests. That means the […]
U.S. Military May Have 10 Robots Per Soldier by 2023
November 16th, 2013Via: Computerworld: American soldiers patrolling dangerous streets will soon be accompanied by autonomous robots programmed to scan the area with thermal imaging and send live images back to the command center. Likewise, squads of infantrymen hiking through mountains will be helped by a wagon train of robots carrying extra water, ammo and protective gear.
