Analysis: Joe Biden has cleared the decks to focus on China. But how imminent is the danger?It may have been an inelegantly, even ineptly, executed pivot, gratuitously alienating key allies, but by leaving Afghanistan and forming the Australian, US and…
Salute the rank
New Space Force uniforms draw comparisons to ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica’ – The Hill, Michael Schnell, 09/21/2021. The Space Force enlisted rank insignia are here, and they look a lot like ‘Star Trek’: ‘The Delta, of course, is pure Star Trek an…
Welsh ambulance service calls for army help with winter Covid pressures
Soldiers expected to drive ambulances and decontaminate vehicles for third time since pandemic beganCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Welsh ambulance service has asked for help from the armed forces, explaining that it fac…
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The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine [ungated] – “Israeli agents had wanted to kill Iran’s top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present.”[1,2] [T]here really was a kill…
NYT: Iran Nuclear Scientist Was Killed By an ‘AI-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine’
For 14 years Israel had wanted to kill Iran’s chief military nuclear scientist and the father of its weapons program, who they suspected of leading Iran’s quest to build nuclear weapons.
Then last November “they came up with a way to do it with no ope…
As Two Pilots Eject, US Military Plane Crashes Into Texas Neighborhood
“Y’all a plane just crashed into all those houses,” one eyewitness says in an online video. “People jumped out of the plane with parachutes.”
The two people — jumping from the 38-foot-long training plane — were both hospitalized, reports …
A New Navy Weapon Actually Stops You From Talking
The U.S. Navy has successfully invented a special electronic device that is designed to stop people from talking. Interesting Engineering reports: A form of non-lethal weapon, the new electronic device effectively repeats a speaker’s own voice back at …
US Air Force Chief Software Officer Quits
The US Air Force’s first ever chief software officer has quit the job after branding it “probably the most challenging and infuriating of my entire career” in a remarkably candid blog post. The Register reports: Nicolas Chaillan’s impressively blunt le…
UK defence secretary suggests US is no longer a superpower
Ben Wallace also contrasts his department’s handling of Afghanistan crisis with Foreign Office responseBen Wallace, Britain’s defence secretary, suggested the US could no longer be considered a superpower in an interview where he also contrasted his de…
Dominic Raab hits back at defence secretary’s Afghanistan remarks
Labour calls for an end to ‘unseemly infighting at the top of government’ after response to Ben WallaceDominic Raab has hit back at his cabinet colleague Ben Wallace’s assertion that he knew the “game was up” in Afghanistan by July, escalating the tens…