For months, observers have been predicting big cuts to traditional weapons programs as a result of the Defense Department’s 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), due in February. But on Oct. 26, Defense News quoted Ryan Henry, deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, saying the QDR would instead focus on how to adapt traditional weapons to […]
October 2005
Sorting through satellite imagery is tough. There are tons and tons of material, only a fraction of which can be reviewed in anything resembling a timely fashion. And very little of that is of any military use at all. Software systems can help, a bit. But, according to the mad scientists at Darpa, “the human […]
It was some time in January of ’03, only a few days after Defense Tech went live, that I first got an e-mail from Phil Carter. He dug the site, and I sure liked his blog, Intel Dump. In the two and a half years since, we’ve become pals. We’ve shared beers on both coasts. […]
After the Katrina debacle, there was a need for action — or, at last, a need for the appearance of action. So President Bush went down to Jackson Square in New Orleans, and “called for a vastly expanded military role in disaster relief, including ‘reconsideration’ of a century-old law banning the active-duty military from law-enforcement […]
The ironies started early. Here we were, in a museum devoted to things that kill — from lances to revolvers to laser weapons of the “Western Space Alliance.” But inside the cranberry-colored auditorium at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, we 120-or-so white guys gathered to talk about weapons that are specifically designed not to cause […]
