Multiple countries are now discussing the need to establish a comprehensive cyber protection program given the continued increase in the threat of cyber attacks and cyber warfare. The attack on Estonia and the more recent attack on Georgia are being viewed as the harbinger of what is to come. I was recently asked what might […]
September 2008
For once it seems the Army is actually turning fiction into science. After nearly a decade in the shadows — with billions spent on earlier versions long since abandoned — the Army is moving quickly to field a revolutionary new weapon to Joes a lot sooner than anyone had ever imagined. It’s a weapon that […]
I know you guys are probably noticing that we’ve had a good amount of weapons content on DT for the last few months. Part of the reason is because after reporting one gun story, you tend to get tidbits of information on another, then another from that, then another from that. When I spoke with […]
Lt. Gen. Michael A. Hamel, the former commander of the Air Forces Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., is one of the generals who has been punished in connection with the services nuclear lapses. Hamel was reprimanded, according to a source who asked not to be identified because of […]
[Editor’s Note: Colin broke this story last week and has a follow up that we posted last evening on the continuing fallout from the Air Force (and DLA) nuke scandals. A source tells me he’s upset by the double standard of this punishment versus the one handed out from the Minot incident. He wonders whether […]
