When I scan the papers for how the feds, state and locals are dealing with terrorist CBRN [Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear] incidents, I cringe. We seem to swing from pandering to our worst fears to get a few more bucks to blind rote repetition in hazard response that doesn’t match logic to the threat. Here’s […]
September 2006
The military would like to use blimps as eyes — and cell towers — in the sky. But, for the plan to really work, the antennas attached to those airships have to be light, flexible, and fit perfectly on the blimp’s hull. And so far, building those antennas has been hard to do. A crew […]
* No NSA spy bill, for now * Marines trying out new body armor * Road tests for hydrogen cars * AWOL schmuck gives up * “What the FBI needs now“ * Shocker! Iraq fueling terror * Aging software: sleuth’s friend? * New bird for GPS * Judge: come clean on border cyber attack * […]
I don’t usually post these sorts of things. But there’s an e-mail making the rounds, from a marine in Fallujah, that’s too good not to share. From bank-robbing insurgents to Oprah-watching locals to the “Bravest Guy in al-Anbar Province,” this marine has vidvidly, succinctly captured life during wartime — and made it all funny, to […]
For nearly forty years, Fred Kaplan notes, “the Army, Air Force, and Navy… have abided by an informal agreement that gives each of them a roughly equal share of the total military budget… In this way, the chiefs have avoided the interservice rivalries that tore the military establishments apart throughout the 1940s and ‘50s.“ But […]
