Citizens of Patuxent River, Maryland, do not be alarmed. When you see a flying saucer overhead sometime in 2007, it will not be a sign of alien attack. Instead, the strange craft in the skies will mean that the Russians are finally here — with a little help from the U.S. Navy. For more than […]
December 2003
I’ll be on BBC Radio’s “Up All Night” at 9:15 pm eastern time tonight, talking about real-life flying saucers. Last week, I spoke with NPR’s “Future Tense” about non-lethal weapons. You can hear me stumble through that interview here.
Here’s your Sunday round-up: – Time has made a great pick for its 2003 “Person of the Year”: the American soldier. – New-fangled Stryker armored vehicles and satellite-guided JDAM bombs are among the advanced weaponry that the U.S. military has brought to South Korea, the L.A. Times reports. – Employers and parents are increasingly using […]
A slew of new technologies may give the American military non-lethal ways to slow down terror incursions in Iraq: A fast-hardening foam could render munitions stockpiles useless; a portable netting system could stop vehicles in their tracks; and a microwave-like “pain ray” could scatter a crowd without a drop of blood being spilled. But there […]
Jeremy Botter says he’s a medic in the 1st Squadron, 10th U.S. Cavalry — one of the groups in the 4th Infantry Division that helped catpure Saddam Hussein. In his weblog, Botter promises a first-hand, blow-by-blow of “Operation Red Dawn,” the mission that got Saddam. Today, he has up a fascinating backgrounder on the events […]
