“The Iraqi military came within seconds of possibly wiping out the headquarters of the coalition ground forces with a missile on March 27,” CNN reports. “The missile was intercepted and destroyed by a U.S. Patriot missile shortly before it could have hit its target.“ The short range, relatively slow al-Samoud missile was launched toward Camp […]
From the monthly archives:
May 2003
You may have read about the Pentagon’s eerie LifeLog proposal here first. But now, the rest of the press is starting to take interest in the project, which aims to gather up everything in a person’s life, index it, and make it searchable. Reuters has a story on LifeLog here. The Register and the Washington […]
You remember all those breathless accounts of American bleeding-edge technology being used in the air war above Iraq? Well, you can forget ‘em now. Sure, the U.S. did use an unprecedented number of spy drones in Gulf War II. But “many of the weapons used were quite oldsome of them nearly antiqueand most of their […]
Years to buy computer systems. Palm Pilots treated like handguns. Technology innovation discouraged. Analysts unwilling and unable to share what they know with their colleagues. These are just some of the things Hoover Institution fellow Bruce Berkowitz found in his tenure as a “scholar-in-residence” at the CIA, examining how the Agency uses information technology. His […]
“Two years of digging at the U.S. Army’s Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland has unearthed more than 2,000 tons of hazardous waste — including vials of live bacteria and nonvirulent anthrax that the military did not know was buried there,” the Washington Post reports. Discovery of the pathogens at the former biological weapons research center […]
