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This week’s deadly insurgent attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul — along with the attack on the Serena Hotel — seemed to have one very specific goal: To disrupt Afghanistan’s upcoming presidential runoff election, which is sche...
This may be something. It may be nothing. But if you check out al-Qaeda’s latest video, there’s a blurry image that bears a striking resemblance to a certain son of a Saudi construction magnate. Either that or I need new glasses.
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Afghanistan is a country the size of Texas, with only a handful of major roads. So when the U.S. military wants to haul gear, supply isolated outposts, reposition forces, or evacuate wounded troops, the first, best, and sometimes only option is to do...
For months, administration and intelligence officials have assured us that the drone war in Pakistan has the jihadists on the run — decimating their leadership, and keeping the rest looking over their shoulders. But there’s been little in...
Airbags have saved countless lives over the years in car crashes. Now they’re set to save lives in another way: by stopping rocket propelled grenades.
The RPG has been the guerrilla’s weapon of choice for decades. It’s cheap, easy ...
Dropping acid to boost the Pentagon’s psychic powers was just the start. The Men Who Stare At Goats, the upcoming movie based on Jon Ronson’s non-fiction book of the same name, has George Clooney and Jeff Bridges in a bizarre military research project...
# $130 billion ain’t enough; Pentagon to ask for more war cash
# Development dollars used to buy press coverage in Iraq
# Can software models or data-mining predict the next 9/11? No way.
# Tricked-out, bomb-stopping armored vehicles in...
Attention, spooks: Looking to unload some surplus surveillance gear? The Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS) at the U.S. Embassy in Panama City is in the market for wireless spy cameras disguised as baseball hats, jackets, pens and handbags.
In a recent...
The Air Force is looking to harness advances in bio-science so they can “degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive abilities.” It’s all part of a $49 million dollar bio-research effort unveiled last month by the Air Force...
The U.S. military has invested heavily in teaching Iraqis to fight roadside bombs, training ordnance disposal teams and passing on post-blast analysis techniques. But Iraqi security forces also swear by a device that the U.S. military refuses to touch:...
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