Archive for the 'War' Category
U.S. Soldiers Use “Drop Weapons” to Cover Up Murders of Civilians in Iraq
June 4th, 2008Say “hello” to the Future Pigs of America, coming to a police force near you. Via: Huffington Post: Several soldiers who have returned from combat zones talk with the American News Project about what they say is the widespread practice of using “drop weapons” to cover up the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq and […]
Air Force Aims for ‘Full Control’ of ‘Any and All’ Computers
June 4th, 2008In general terms, vulnerabilities often come about as the result of ignorant managers implementing functionality against the advice of competent engineers, or, if a network has been built with budget constraints that wind up placing security somewhere down the list of priorities. If the target network has been built properly, however, the Air Force’s fantasies […]
Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq
May 28th, 2008No jokes about the great revelations on Cryptogon today. I’m sorry for posting this. Maybe I need to tag the title with [Seriously Worth Skipping] so that all you feed surfers can simply skim over the headline and skip it with confidence. Via: Washington Post: Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a […]
Draft Discussed in Senate
May 22nd, 2008Via: Military.com: In an exchange sure to send ripples of anxiety through the all-volunteer military, the Senate’s senior defense spending member asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen if it is time to “consider reinstituting the draft.” Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, asked Gates […]
Democracy: U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan
May 18th, 2008Via: New York Times: The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come. The proposed detention center would replace the […]
U.S.-Trained Forces Reportedly Helping Mexican Cartels
May 15th, 2008Imagine my shock. Via: Houston Chronicle: As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday. The renegade members of Mexico’s elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, […]
Money Raised for Africa ‘Goes to Civil Wars’
May 14th, 2008Imagine my shock. Do you really think that anyone who’s ever made a loan or grant to any dictator, anywhere in the world, has any doubt about what is going to happen with the money? Sure, Bono is an idiot, people will say. Woops. Silly Bono. While there are lots of idiots in the world, […]
Iranian Weapons in Iraq? Woops
May 13th, 2008Via: Los Angeles Times: A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously […]
NSA vs. Military Academies
May 12th, 2008Via: Wired: Even with a solid network design and passable software choices, there was an element of intuitiveness required to defend against the NSA, especially once it became clear the agency was using minor, and perhaps somewhat obvious, attacks to screen for sneakier, more serious ones. “One of the challenges was when they see a […]
Gunmen Kill Chief of Mexico’s Federal Police Force
May 9th, 2008Via: New York Times: Gunmen assassinated the acting chief of Mexico’s federal police early on Thursday morning in the most brazen attack so far in the year-and-a-half-old struggle between the government and organized crime gangs. Edgar Millan Gomez, the acting chief of Mexico’s federal police, in January. The Mexican police have been under constant attack […]
