Articles tagged "army"

Meet the paleo nightmare.

State of the art, sun-tracking solar systems will now power a missile defense base in New Mexico.

It’s remained unclear just how crucial unmanned spy- and kill-drones were in making sense of the ambush, and then securing the compound, as it all went down in real time. As it turns out, very.

Between 1940 and 1941, the US Army purchased 17,323 acres of land just outside of St. Louis, MO. On those acres happened to sit three towns, Hamburg, Howell, and Toonerville, all of which were evacuated over the course of a year. 700 people. The area…

I’m not sure what’s more facepalm-y – Yemen’s President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi unequivocally praising U.S. drone strikes within his country, or Hadi simultaneously accepting a small fleet of unmanned aerial spy craft from the Americans.

A look at the Atlas' explosive history.

It was the second day of the Special Operation Forces Exhibition in Amman, Jordan, and the temperature outside the convention center was around 80 degrees Fahrenheit, with a typical chance of rain of zero. Drones of various sizes hovered in the hot b…

If the most powerful armed force in history isn’t winning in reality, it certainly is on the big screen. And like so many problematic aspects of late capitalism, the military-Hollywood complex has a grimly understandable logic. For example, consider…

Yikes! The Navy has issued "a proposal":http://www.dodsbir.net/solicitation/sttr11A/navy11A.htm for U.S. nerds to build it “a coordinated and distributed swarm of micro-robots” capable of manufacturing “novel materials and structures." How useful, ro…

The toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square in April 2003, shortly after the American invasion of Iraq began, had profound effects on the world's perception of the war, even if it had little to do with reality.

Amidst the sound and fury over Wikileaks and Julian Assange, it's easy to forget about Army private "Bradley Manning":http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/6/11/wikileaks-vs-wired-over-military-secrets-did-someone-break-the-sacred-oath--2, the likely source…