* AQ big offed in Madagascar * Gonzales turning over domestic spy docs? * Vid: Sea Launch explosion * Tehran behind G.I. kidnapping? * …Roggio had the story last week * More Iranian bombs in Iraq (background) * “Rogue U.S. attack on Brit convoy?“ * Big corruption in Iraqi police training * Sadr’s rope-a-dope * […]
January 2007
The U.S. government has stepped in to halt the auctioning of spare parts for the Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter jet, Defense News reports: The sales of all F-14 parts were suspended on January 26 pending a review, the Defense Logistics Agency said in a statement. Dawn Dearden, a spokewoman for the agency, told AFP […]
January has been a hell of a month for Defense Tech: traffic is through the roof, reader participation is way up, and the quality of material is at an all-time high. So here are the top five most popular posts for the month. The Law Catches Up To Private Militaries, Embeds Since the start of […]
Interesting news on the infowar front, in two parts. First, Declan McCullagh has stumbled onto a previously-undisclosed FBI Net-monitoring program that’s “broader and potentially more intrusive than the FBI’s [infamous] Carnivore surveillance system.“ Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of thousands of […]
Three American helicopters have gone down in Iraq in a little more than a week. Is there anything behind this collection of crashes? Or is just lethal coincidence — part of what happens when troops do something death-defying, over and over again? I asked Defense Tech pal ME, a former Kiowa Warrior pilot who served […]
