It’s a couple days late, but in case you missed it, Gen. Israel Tal who helped design what many believe is the world’s best tank, died a couple days ago in Rehovot, Israel. Born in 1924, he held a series of important posts in the course of an illustrious military career, leaving the army as […]
From the monthly archives:
September 2010
Seriously… The Obama administration is seeking a go-ahead from Congress to sell up to $60 billion worth of sophisticated warplanes to Saudi Arabia and could add another $30 billion worth of naval arms in a deal designed to counter the rise of Iran as a regional power. The deal would apparently represent the largest single […]
Dr. Gerardo Melendez recently took over as the US Army’s top weapons wizard, shepherding a staff of 3,600 scientists and engineers at the service’s Armaments Research, Development and Engineering Command. That means it will fall on Melendez to ensure the smooth deployment of the Army’s new XM-25 counter defilade weapon and the continued development of cased-telescoped […]
By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyber Warfare contributor Last week’s rapidly spreading computer virus has been traced back to a cyber-jihad group called Tariq ibn Ziyad. Information security company SecureWorks was able to link this cyber jihad group to the ‘Here you have’ malicious worm. The worm was able to crash systems, computer networks […]
Decisions on matters of foreign policy have consequences. For those who too often forget that those consequences are often human costs, an excellent and emotionally wrenching book by Military Times reporter Kelly Kennedy, They Fought For Each Other: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq, provides a much needed reminder. Unlike […]
