New blog! |
Seemingly endless hours of tedium punctuated by moments of sheer terror -- that's war for you. For every bloody roadside bombing or blazing firefight there are a days, even weeks, of road patrols, sta...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:52:00 GMT |
Thwarting IEDs |
"We think it works," Army 1st Lieutenant Derek Austin told me in February 2006. He was talking about the radio jammers his unit used to block the signals that detonate many Improvised Explosive Device...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:50:00 GMT |
Iraqi Air Force's New Wings |
All the attention is on the army and police, right now. But Iraq's tiny air force is about to get a bit bigger, C4ISR Journal reports: Working through the U.S. Air Force, Iraq's nascent defense mi...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:43:00 GMT |
Late Xmas Presents from Israel |
Cluster bombs, people. Hundreds of thousands of them. In the wake of the summer war between Israel and Hezbollah, southern Lebanon is pretty quiet. But every once in a while an explosion rolls over t...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:39:00 GMT |
Axe Does Lebanon |
I'm off to southern Lebanon for a couple weeks in order to check up on the U.N. force (including the bad-ass at left) that's supposedly keeping an eye on Hezbollah and intercepting Syrian infiltrators...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:10:00 GMT |
Coasties Cover D.C. |
Sometimes they buzz my apartment on the summit of Columbia Heights in northwest Washington, D.C. They're bright red with white stripes and black noses, and they make a noise like giant lawnmowers. The...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:47:00 GMT |
Herd of Buffaloes |
What started as a humble little Mom and Pop operation hand-building Cougar and Buffalo armored vehicles for the Army's Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams has expanded into a massive production push inv...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:06:00 GMT |
Aegis Turns 20 |
Some weapons don't age well. Designed to counter the threat of the day, they go into mothballs when the threat evaporates. Take the Bradley Linebacker, an M-2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle with a ...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:19:00 GMT |
Labouchere of Arabia |
"He's gone totally native," one British officer at Basra Air Station said of the maverick commander of the Queen's Royal Hussars battlegroup. He's the subject of my first feature for Defense Technolog...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:45:00 GMT |
Army a Cinderella Service? |
The Army has been short-changed for years in favor of its glamorous and pricey sisters the Air Force and Navy. Now it's the land service's turn for the big bucks, Army chief of staff General Pete Scho...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:02:00 GMT |
