Archive for the 'War' Category
What Is Woodward’s ‘Secret Weapon’ in Iraq?
September 13th, 2008The human thermal fingerprint is a pretty strange. I have no idea if that’s it, but look at page 12 of this U.S. Special Operations Command briefing paper on Continuous Clandestine Tagging, Tracking and Locating (CTTL). They want “battery independent” tracking devices that harvest energy from ambient RF fields, movement and wind. Via: Wired: I’m […]
Hackers Infiltrate Large Hadron Collider Systems and Mock IT Security
September 13th, 2008Not physically isolating the systems responsible for running the Large Hadron Collider from a network that’s connected to the Internet??? Priceless. It sounds like the attackers ran into an internal firewall/gateway that exists around the network used to control the LHC. Via: Telegraph: Hackers have mounted an attack on the Large Hadron Collider, raising concerns […]
Russian Strategic Bombers Sent to Venezuela
September 11th, 2008Via: Reuters: Two Russian long-range bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons will return to base from Venezuela in four days, the Russian Air Force was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying on Thursday. The bombers, known in the West by the NATO codename “blackjacks”, were not carrying nuclear weapons during the flight to South […]
Secret Assassination Program is Key in Iraq, Woodward Says
September 10th, 2008Oh sure, Bob. During the Vietnam War, the Phoenix Program ran from 1967 through the Tet Offensive and until the Americans fled Vietnam. I seriously doubt that an assassination program is working in Iraq. More likely, the cash bribes that the U.S. has been paying to insurgents to stay home, or kill their religious enemies […]
Britain Training Chinese Military Officers
September 8th, 2008I should create a Blowback category. Via: Telegraph: The government has breached EU rules banning military cooperation with China by allowing a Chinese army officer to study at Sandhurst. Officer Cadet Liu Liu, who graduated from the Royal Military Academy last month, has spent the past year training alongside British army cadets. A second Chinese […]
U.S. Military and Mercenaries Trained Georgian Commandos
September 6th, 2008Full text follows. Via: Financial Times: By Charles Clover in Moscow and Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington Published: September 5 2008 18:49 | Last updated: September 5 2008 18:49 The US military provided combat training to 80 Georgian special forces commandos only months prior to Georgia’s army assault in South Ossetia in August. The revelation, based […]
Defiant Cheney Vows Georgia Will Join NATO
September 5th, 2008Tell me another one, Dick. Via: Guardian: The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, yesterday issued a direct challenge to Moscow’s sway over Georgia, pledging Washington’s support for its eventual membership of Nato, while denouncing Russia’s “illegitimate” invasion. “Georgia will be in our alliance,” Cheney said after talks with President Mikheil Saakashvili. Cheney used his one-day visit […]
U.S. Troops Carry Out Attack Inside Pakistan
September 4th, 2008Via: Guardian: An incursion by foreign troops from Afghanistan into Pakistan that killed at least 20 people, including women and children, has been condemned by the foreign ministry in Islamabad as a “gross violation” of Pakistani territory. Security officials in the region have said the incursion into the tribal area of South Waziristan was carried […]
Report on New Zealand Military: Can’t Sail, Can’t Fly, Can’t Fight
September 3rd, 2008Via: New Zealand Herald: The Navy is finding it difficult to sail, the Air Force to fly and the Army would struggle to take part in combat, according to the Defence Force annual report. It paints a picture of all three branches of the defence forces hamstrung by a lack of staff and poor equipment. […]
Georgia Mobilizes Commando Units Near South Ossetia
September 3rd, 2008Hopefully the “Georgian Commandos” won’t lose their U.S. Passports this time… Via: rian.ru: Georgia is mobilizing commando units near its border with South Ossetia, a senior Russian military official said on Tuesday. Russia officially recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states on August 26, saying the move was needed to protect the regions after […]
