We’ve hinted at this a couple of times since the fight between Israel and Hezbollah began. But the terror group, “with the sophistication of a national army… and the lethal invisibility of a guerrilla army” is a new breed of military animal. “A hybrid,” Thom Shanker writes. “Old labels, and old planning, do not apply.“ […]
July 2006
* Counter-IED: no silver bullets (background here and here) * Ivy League vs. military * Secrecy vs. biodefense * Pentagon eyes YouTube * US AID’s Iraq shell game * “Why the Mid-East Ain’t About Terror“ * Condi: quick cease-fire * Army wants microwave cannon * Looking back at Israel’s laser defense (background here)
Diesel subs, diesel subs, everyone’s worried about diesel subs. With the advent of Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) and the proliferation of German– and Russian-made diesel designs — including to our favorite bugaboo Iran — a lot of folks in the U.S. Navy are working really hard on ways to find and kill these quiet, lethal […]
Here’s some more on those longer-range Hezbollah rockets mentioned in today’s Rapid Fire: Hezbollah called the rockets the Khaibar-1. They fell more than 30 miles south of the Lebanese border. A few other rockets have traveled this far, but it was still unusual, according to the Israeli military and police. The rockets are capable of […]
* Hez missile command taken out? * Israel backed by cyber-soldiers * Hez fires off long-range weapons * Congress pushes alt energy for defense * Spam king gets whacked * Brit spy cams = peeping toms * Pak’s bomb factory * NSA whistleblower subpoenaed * Senate smushes conventional Tridents * Return of supersonic jets? * […]
