Archive for the 'War' Category
Iran Drops U.S. Dollar, U.S. Draws Up New Plans to Attack Iran
May 1st, 2008Via: CBS: A second American aircraft carrier steamed into the Persian Gulf on Tuesday as the Pentagon ordered military commanders to develop new options for attacking Iran. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports that the planning is being driven by what one officer called the “increasingly hostile role” Iran is playing in Iraq […]
The Hunt for the Kill Switch
May 1st, 2008Via: IEEE: Last September, Israeli jets bombed a suspected nuclear installation in northeastern Syria. Among the many mysteries still surrounding that strike was the failure of a Syrian radar—supposedly state-of-the-art—to warn the Syrian military of the incoming assault. It wasn’t long before military and technology bloggers concluded that this was an incident of electronic warfare—and […]
13 Killed in Tijuana Gunbattles
April 29th, 2008Consider the proximity of this situation to the U.S. It’s just a few minutes drive across the U.S./Mexico border into Tijuana. Then there’s Chicago: Nine dead, 36 wounded over one weekend. Via: AP: Massive gunbattles broke out between suspected drug traffickers who fired at each other while speeding down heavily populated streets of this violent […]
Sending in the Marines (to Recruit Women)
April 21st, 2008Via: New York Times: THE Marines are looking for a few good women. Actually, they will take as many as they can get. Faced with the difficulty of recruiting during a long and unpopular war, the United States Marine Corps has started marketing itself to women in a concerted way for the first time. It […]
On Average, U.S. Military Units Pay $88 for Fuel, Per Day, Per Service Member in Iraq
April 21st, 2008Cui bono? Mmm hmm. Via: AP: Think you’re being gouged by Big Oil? U.S. troops in Iraq are paying almost as much as Americans back home, despite burning fuel at staggering rates in a war to stabilize a country known for its oil reserves. Military units pay an average of $3.23 a gallon for gasoline, […]
Japanese Oil Tanker Attacked Off Yemen
April 21st, 2008Monitoring… Via: Bloomberg: A Nippon Yusen K.K. crude oil tanker was fired upon by a small boat off the coast of Yemen. There were no injuries. The oil carrier named Takayama was hit at 4:40 a.m. Yemeni time by a “rocket-like weapon”, the Japanese Coast Guard said today in Tokyo. The vessel, which carries a […]
U.S. Defense Contractor Found that a Single Compromised Windows Box had Been Secretly Siphoning Information to a Server in Mainland China for 18 Months
April 13th, 2008Via: Wired: The attackers relied on e-mails tempting the victim to open the attachments, in some cases by presenting them as résumés from job seekers. But when the target opened the attachment, the application would usually crash, while the embedded code covertly installed a keylogger and data-stealing software that scooped up documents anywhere on the […]
Armed Robots Malfunction in Iraq
April 12th, 2008It’s tough to know what to believe on this one. The statement below is ambiguous. The Army spokesperson said, “It can take 10 or 20 years to try it again.” But then the piece says, “Fahey expects another armed ground bot to be deployed within the year.” Take your pick. I had been wondering what […]
Weather Engineering in China
April 7th, 2008Via: MIT Technology Review: To prevent rain over the roofless 91,000-seat Olympic stadium that Beijing natives have nicknamed the Bird’s Nest, the city’s branch of the national Weather Modification Office–itself a department of the larger China Meteorological Administration–has prepared a three-stage program for the 2008 Olympics this August. First, Beijing’s Weather Modification Office will track […]
Iraq War: $3 Trillion Estimate May Be Too Low
April 7th, 2008Via: Guardian: President Bush has tried to give the impression that the $3 trillion dollar estimate of the total cost of the war that we provide in our new book may be exaggerated. We believe that it is, in fact, conservative. Even the president would have to admit that the $50 to $60 billion estimate […]
