warfare
Hybrid Laser Tanks Might Help Save the Earth, While Blowing It Up
It's the best of both worlds. Tanks with hybrid electric engines and laser weapons would be good for the environment and lethal in destroying it.
In Photos: Kim Jong-un Enjoying North Korean Military Exercises
Kim's live-fire photo-op offered us a chance to do a quick analysis of the weaponry North Korea is trotting out these days.
A Task Force of Military Types Just Called Out Obama's Endless Drone Wars
On Thursday, a panel made up of former military and intelligence officials released the most thorough examination yet of America's fondness for the remote-controlled flying death machines commonly known as drones.
VICE on HBO Debrief: Heroin Warfare
Suroosh Alvi visited both sides of the Iran/Afghanistan border to see firsthand the effects of the explosion in the drug trade.
The Army Is Eating Pizzas That Don’t Age for Three Years
The team of food scientists working in the “combat feeding” program at the US Army’s Natick Soldier Systems Center has created its starchy, saucy, cheesy pièce de résistance: pizza that can survive pretty much anything.
Air Force Pilots Are Learning to Fly Blind Against Chinese Electromagnetic Strikes
It's one of the greater ironies of today's remote warfare.
How Data-Driven Soldiers Might Upend the Future of War
TrackingPoint, the Texas-based smart-weapons startup, just released its conceptual vision for the so-called networked battlefield. Unsurprisingly, it looks completely insane.
Images Of Drone Attack Sites Uploaded To Instagram
James Bridle’s Dronestagram: The Drone’s-Eye View collates images of where drone attacks have occurred.
Botched Or Not, US Response to Benghazi Attacks Leaned Heavily on Drones
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.
Anti-Life Sciences
I met with Professor Malcolm Dando from the University of Bradford, a biologist turned international security guru, to discuss how the chemicals sloshing around in your brain can be manipulated by law enforcement agencies for diabolical ends.
Shooting the Shit
War reeks. If smells can sometimes act as forceful memory triggers, it’s no surprise that militaries found a way to robotize the stink and use it as a tool of deception, dispersion, or fear.
America Secretly Tried to Destroy Totalitarianism With Pigeons
B.F. Skinner, the psychologist and social philosopher, had an idea about how to bring about world peace. It involved teaching pigeons to guide missiles.