Archive for the 'War' Category
And Now: The Killer Drones that Can See Through Walls
September 21st, 2008Via: Slate: Both reports focus on “detecting and identifying humans enclosed in building structures.” “Through-the-wall sensing is currently a topic of great interest to defense agencies both in the U.S. and abroad,” says the April report. “The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has been active in all these fields of investigation, approaching these issues both […]
Pakistan’s Military Issues Orders: Kill U.S. Invaders
September 14th, 2008Via: The Australian: KEY corps commanders of Pakistan’s 600,000-strong army issued orders last night to retaliate against “invading” US forces that enter the country to attack militant targets. The move has plunged relations between Islamabad and Washington into deep crisis over how to deal with al-Qa’ida and the Taliban What amounts to a dramatic order […]
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 […]
