This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report. The U.S. Air Force is considering — once again — delaying the retirement date for its workhorse intelligence collector, the U-2 Dragon Lady, as developers work out issues with integrating a signals intelligence payload onto the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), according to service […]
August 2008
For decades its name could not be spoken outside of a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility or mentioned to someone without at least TS/SCI clearance. It built wondrous satellites that did things like detecting missile launches from space that no one had believed possible until the National Reconnaissance Office did them. But a string of failures, […]
Blackwater 2.0: A Force for Good? ( surveys)
Jason posted this comment a while back on my What is a Combat Handgun? entry. When I got out I worked personal security for individuals. I had to take 3 levels of firearms qualification classes. Even with my experience several of my instructors asked me to try the revolver (yes I am going there) I […]
MOYOCK, N.C. — It’s a name that’s become synonymous with the murky world of counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan — where the subtle tones of the enemy’s colors blend in with innocents. In a war like this, no one is secure and the military has its hands full, so the American government has turned increasingly […]
