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January 2009

Those of us whove laid there for hours on end, watching a suspected insurgent ORP, or gathering intel on that homicide suspect before the knuckle-draggers go serve the warrant, understand that adult diapers arent the best answer to the bodys biological imperatives (particularly with regards to matters scatological). The same thing is true (and possibly […]

In offices in the Pentagon and the State Department, China-Taiwan experts are scrutinizing the latest reports from the Far East of the changing relationship between China — officially the People’s Republic of China — and Taiwan, the offshore island “state.” For more than a half century the United States has anticipated a possible Chinese assault […]

I also spoke with Darren Mellors, vice president for business development from LWRC, about their losing bid on the Marine Corps Infantry Automatic Rifle competition. He showed me their bid for the new gun contract, which is intended to replace the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon in rifle squads and light armored reconnaissance units. Colt won […]

The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD), the DoD equivalent in Britain, has begun to investigate what has been called the most significant cyber security breach after information and evidence surfaces that all emails sent from multiple Royal Air Force stations were sent to IP addresses traced back to Russia. A hybrid computer virus/worm was able […]

The Air Force wants to wean itself off oil with.. uh, coal? Gitmo post-mortem Strange happenings on the 38th parallel And speaking of the peninsula, what’s up with that Nork reactor? Preach it brother — build a bigger Navy Pull out the tissues: HBO trailer for Taking Chance and the blog post which inspired it […]