Weapons

Charles C. Johnson

Tablet: Deep Divisions Within Israel on Iran Strike

Ehud Barak, Meir Dagan, and Benjamin Netanyahu: At War Over Iran Strategy Our friends at Tablet, one of the great up and coming online magazines, have a great piece analyzing how divided the Israeli government is over whether or not to launch a preemptive attack of Iran. In essence, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense [...]
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Sun Tzu

India Building Up Military To Deal With China

From the Associated Press: NEW DELHI — In recent weeks, India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier — modernizing its military to face a rising China. India and China have a long history of tension, dating back to a [...]
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Niccolo Machiavelli

Swarming Nano Quadrotors: The New Warfare?

This is apparently the future of warfare.  Fascinating…and kinda spooky at the same time.  These are small UAV drones developed by KMel Robotics and  GRASP Labs at the University of Pennsylvania. embedded by Embedded Video jQuery('#lazyload_post_2 img').lazyload({placeholder: '/wp-includes/images/blank.gif'});
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Niccolo Machiavelli

Goodbye Humvee, Hello JLTV

It looks like the Humvee is about to go into the great junkyard in the sky.  Army leaders are expressed by the performance of the New Joint Light  Tactical Vehicle.  They run about $270,000 for the base vehicle,  making it competitive with a revamped Humvee. The Army Times reports: The JLTV: by General Dynamics and AM [...]
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Sun Tzu

Obama Counters Panetta: ‘I Don’t Think Israel Has Made a Decision’ to Strike Iran

(AFP) US President Barack Obama said he did not think Israel had made a decision on whether to launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear installations, a threat that has rattled the region. Obama — seeking to reassure Americans over the danger posed by Tehran’s suspect nuclear program, and any negative side-effects for the United States [...]
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Sun Tzu

For Whom the Drone Tolls: Air Force to Cut 10,000 Airmen Next Year

LOLITA C. BALDOR (AP) – Associated Press WASHINGTON The Air Force on Friday detailed plans to cut the service by nearly 10,000 active, National Guard and Reserve airmen next year, as part of a broad move to downsize and shift capabilities around the country to be better prepared for wars [...]
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John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.),

New York Times Laments Income Loss for Afghan Businesses

After ten years of nearly constant derisiveness and complacency toward force protection and convenient ignorance of policies that have caused the severe wounding and killing of thousands of American Servicemen, The New York Times took the time to write about the loss of income for business in Afghanistan...
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Kerry Patton

Former Special Forces Operative: U.S. Addiction to Drones Could Lead to Domestic Use

“Coercive influence” is arguably construed as a dark art within the intelligence arena. Used to force people to do things they ordinarily wouldn’t do, it is a tactic used for influence and shaping operations. Historically, some coercive influence techniques came from torture, blackmail, and even “sexpionage.” Today, America has incorporated a new tool used in [...]
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John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.),

Unreasonable Risk and Ill-Conceived Combat Missions Define Obama’s Afghanistan Strategy

As a consequence of that misplaced ethical concern for an inappropriately identified non-combatant population, they have unnecessarily endangered our forces and reduced their combat effectiveness by forcing them to consider the lives of these 'non-combatants' as superior to their own. This is the very definition of 'unreasonable risk'.
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Sun Tzu

Let Slip the ATMs of War: Pentagon Plans More Drones, Less Troops Under Obama Budget

From ABC News: That buzz you hear above your head is the sound of the Pentagon cutting its budget. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta detailed today how the Obama administration plans to achieve $487 billion in cuts over the next decade, in part by reducing the number of ships, planes and troops, but continuing to [...]
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