Blog Profile / War is Boring
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| Filed Under: | Military / US Military | |
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| Posts / Week: | 11.7 | |
| Archived Since: | April 2, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Danger Room: Darpa Finally Shrinks Massive Thermal Cameras Into Handheld Devices
by ROBERT BECKHUSEN If the U.S. military wants to spot an enemy creeping up at night using only his body heat, it relies on bulky thermal cameras that need to be lugged around in tanks, planes and helicopters. Only now the Pentagon’s far-out researchers think they’ve developed infrared cameras and targeting systems small enough to [...]Show More Summary
Peter’s Atlantic Round Up 4/13/13
by PETER VINE F-35 & Europe The beleaguered trillion-dollar plane faces challenges, of course, and not just from additional budget pressures in the United States. It’s also facing challenges from austerity in Europe. Faced with rising costs, Denmark has re-opened the tender process for its next-generation fighter. In other words: While Copenhagen has left the door open [...]Show More Summary
Danger Room: Top Docs’ (Partial) Cure for Nuclear Radiation: Bone Marrow Drugs
by ROBERT BECKHUSEN Even if a nuclear bomb exploded far enough away for you to survive the blast, the radiation could still kill you. Now the U.S. government wants to find a cure for one the most vexing causes of radioactive death — starting with your bones. According to a research solicitation released this week [...]Show More Summary
Danger Room: Need Ships? Try a 3-D Printed Navy
by ROBERT BECKHUSEN If two junior Navy officers have their way, the warships of the future will be floating factories that create everything from food to robots and spare parts — all thanks to 3-D printers. Shipyards will use them on a vast scale. And when the ships need more raw materials, they’ll link up [...]Show More Summary
Peter’s Atlantic Round Up 4/2/13
There are increasing fears that the Russian government will begin to start enforcing a law known as the “foreign agent” law. Passed last July, it requires NGOs that receive funding from abroad to register as “foreign agents.”
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Reuters: Drone Coalition: Key to U.S. Security
The Pentagon’s biggest, most high-tech spy drone aircraft — one of the hottest items on the international arms market — is the key to a burgeoning robotic alliance among the United States, Japan, South Korea and Australia.
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Peter’s Atlantic Roundup 3/28/13
Fallout from the troubled rescue of the Cypriot economy continues after the 11th hour agreement over the weekend which included a hefty 9.9-percent tax on all deposits over €100,000. With Cyprus traditionally seen by Russia as an investment...Show More Summary
Fly Like an Eagle, to the Sea
One of the many stimulating concepts John Smart (yes, that's his name) put forth in his keynote at West 2013 was that of naval applications of biomimicry, or the science of technological analogues to biological function. Dr. Smart chose...Show More Summary
Danger Room: One of These ‘Bots Will Be the Navy’s Next Killer Drone
The Navy's future robotic air wing is taking shape. On Tuesday, the sailing branch announced that it will pay four companies to hand over the technical specs for their various designs for the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance...Show More Summary
Danger Room: If The Military’s Future Stealth Jet Fails, The Navy’s Got a Backup Plan
The U.S. Navy is carefully backing away from the troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program -- and putting in place a backup plan in case the trillion-dollar, jack-of-all-trades stealth jet can't recover from mounting technical and budgetary woes. Show More Summary
Danger Room: China’s Testing Woes Remind That Developing Carrier Planes is Hard
The ongoing trials of China’s first aircraft carrier and her ship-based jet fighters represents a major leap-ahead in capability for the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). But the hype surrounding Lioaning‘s debut test cruise last...Show More Summary
Danger Room: After The Carrier: 3 Alternatives To The Navy’s Vulnerable Flattops
The U.S. Navy's huge, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers -- capital ships that have long dominated military planning and budgeting -- are slowly becoming obsolete, weighed down by escalating costs, inefficiency and vulnerability to the...Show More Summary
Voice of America: Africom Mission in Africa
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The Guardian on ARMY OF GOD: “Not a Light Read.”
The Guardian considers my new graphic novel ARMY OF GOD.
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Danger Room: China’s Newest Stealth Fighter May Head to Sea, State Media Says
China's latest stealth fighter prototype could be deployed aboard the Chinese navy's first aircraft carrier, eventually allowing Beijing to deploy radar-evading warplanes all over the world -- although it'll have to overcome some serious...Show More Summary
Danger Room: Test Pilots: Stealth Jet’s Blind Spot Will Get It ‘Gunned Every Time’
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the military's expensive main warplane of the future, has a huge blind spot directly behind it. Pilots say that could get them shot down in close-quarters combat, where the flier with the better visibility...Show More Summary
Forbidden Planet International Director’s Commentary: ARMY OF GOD
I knew when I went to Congo two years ago that I would write a comic book about it. And thanks to an expert team — my artist, editors and agent — what might have been a nightmare from beginning to end actually got easier and easier. With one huge caveat.
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Danger Room: More Jets, Jamming Make Air Force’s Toughest War Game Even Tougher
The world's most difficult air war simulation just got a lot tougher.
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Offiziere.ch: Jet Fighter Influence: How Lockheed’s Public Relations Efforts Keep the F-35 Sold
Sometime in the spring of 2012 Al Bunting received a message imploring him to publicly endorse America's warplane of the future.
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Axe and ARMY OF GOD in NYC
I'll be at the Roosevelt House in New York City on March 14 talking about Joseph Kony, the Lord's Resistance Army and my new graphic novel ARMY OF GOD.
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