* AT&T sued over domestic spying * Iran caught with nuke weapons plans * Daley: Every biz must have spycams (background here) * Panamanians “run black-ops in Haiti“ * Are we at war, really? * Dead drops go high-tech * Inside the Syrian blogosphere * US “unaware” of emerging bio-threats * Good luck detecting border […]
From the monthly archives:
January 2006
Clark read the nuke-detection story in today’s Times, and spotted this little tidbit: The experts discussed a range of potential tools, including… robotic butterflies that can monitor an atomic site while appearing to flutter by innocuously. So naturally, Clark wanted to know what was up with these mechanical insects. I haven’t heard of this project […]
* NSA’s revolving door * Army’s civil war over troop cuts * New sub’s 1st mission: spy on cell phones * Psyops showing up in US? * DoD’s laser-sats: everything you wanted to know * Captains’ 97% promotion rate * Mine buster targets cancer (background here) * Chris is back in Iraq… and he ain’t […]
It’s funny the way aviators talk about their airplanes. Every flier’s got his favorite jet, the one he’s most comfortable in and which behaves best for him. “Every airplane is different,” explains one maintenance sergeant here at Al Asad air base in western Iraq. Each of Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 332s dozen F/A-18D […]
For a while, now, I’ve been hearing about the Defense Department’s plans to outfit a fighting vehicle with a pain ray, a sonic blaster, and a laser dazzler, too. I never figured they’d actually send the thing to Iraq, though. Project Sheriff, I assumed, would just be the military equivalent of a concept car — […]
