Archive for the 'War' Category
Drone Pilots Could Be Tried for ‘War Crimes,’ According to Law Professor
April 29th, 2010Read the following book and let me know how many Americans have faced international tribunals for those atrocities: Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II by William Blum Via: Wired: The pilots waging America’s undeclared drone war in Pakistan could be liable to criminal prosecution for “war crimes,” a prominent law […]
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
April 27th, 2010Via: New York Times: Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a bowl of spaghetti. “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” […]
DARPA Tested Hypersonic Glider Related to Quick-Response Global Strike System, and Then Claims to Have Lost Contact with It
April 24th, 2010There has been a lot of coverage of the launch of the X-37b, but as the right hand was waving at us, did you notice what the left hand was up to? The same day, the U.S. launched a Minotaur rocket that reportedly carried a Hypersonic Test Vehicle, which is a test platform for the […]
Anybody’s Son Will Do
April 22nd, 2010Or daughter, as you’ll see if you watch the film. Via: Counter Currents: The film shows the process by which young men become psychologically engineered to kill or die on command. While the model used is the U.S. Marine Corps, it’s made clear that the modern techniques for creating soldiers are refined, dehumanizing and universal.
National Guard Recruiters Forged Re-Enlistment Papers
April 22nd, 2010Via: RawStory: Washington State National Guard recruiters repeatedly forged re-enlistment papers in a desperate attempt to hold on to soldiers in the run-up to the Iraq war surge, a local news channel’s investigation has found. In one case, a soldier found himself fighting against deployment to Iraq after re-enlistment papers with his signature on it […]
IEEE: Build Backup Routes for Undersea Communications Infrastructure “Before we have to learn the hard way”
April 21st, 2010Cryptogon Flashback to 2002: Cyberwar: How Terrorists Could Defeat the U.S., and Why They Won’t In the years since I wrote that, I started to think that a massive attack on the physical network infrastructure would make increasing sense to the elite if the financial scams became totally untenable, and the perpetrators needed a distraction […]
U.S. Soldier Who Felt Bad About Slaughter of Civilians in Iraq: “I was told that I needed to get the sand out of my vagina”
April 21st, 2010Via: Wired: Wired.com: At the time you arrived on the scene, you didn’t know what had happened, is that right? Ethan McCord: Right. We were engaged in our own conflict roughly about three or four blocks away. We heard the gunships open up. [Then] we were just told … to move to this [other] location. […]
Afghanistan: U.S. Death Squad Executed Students While They Slept
April 15th, 2010U.S. taxpayers pay $2000 per executed child to grieving Afghan parents. Happy April 15th. Via: Times Online: A night-time raid in eastern Afghanistan in which eight schoolboys from one family were killed was carried out on the basis of faulty intelligence and should never have been authorised, a Times investigation has found. Ten children and […]
The World’s Biggest Arms-Makers
April 13th, 2010I guessed that the top spot would be held by Lockheed, and by a large margin. Nope. Via: Economist: BAE Systems, a British firm, took the top spot as the world’s largest arms manufacturer in 2008. This is largely because the company has pursued a strategy of expanding the American side of its business in […]
Japan to Investigate Chinese Warships Near Okinawa
April 13th, 2010Via: Reuters: Japan said on Tuesday it would investigate the sighting of several Chinese submarines and warships last week in the high seas near the southern island of Okinawa, where U.S. bases are concentrated in Japan. Two submarines and eight vessels were spotted on Saturday about 140 km (90 miles) southwest of Okinawa, the first […]
