Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Andy David was just interviewed on CNN about the attacks on the Gaza Strip. At the end he was asked if Israel would abide by the UN Security Council's calls for a ceasefire. Instead of answering simply and saying "no," he got to his...
In its 50 years in operation, NORAD never saw a mission it didn't like. Perhaps its most bizarre (and since the Cold War, most high profile) annual ritual of the air defense command is the "tracking" of Santa Claus across the planet. The process has come a long way...
I'm a sucker for military robot stories. Today, The Independent has an article about concerns from the University of Sheffield's Professor Sharkey that, as robots are used in more and more ways, people will become more and more isolated from each other. Professor...
The United States has spent somewhere in the realm of $5.5 trillion creating its enormous nuclear arsenal, but even as they look to God-only-knows-how-much more on modernizing their warheads, a much less recognized expense, what to do with the enormous stockpile of...
The subcontractors responsible for moving NATO supplies from Karachi to the forces in Afghanistan have reportedly paid millions of dollars in protection money, called the "Taliban Tax" by the Times, to keep militants from attacking them. One company reported spending...
According to sources inside the office of the governor of Afghanistan's Laghman Province, NATO forces launched an air strike on what they claimed were Taliban warriors last night near the town of Mehtar Lam. When the helicopters finished firing, 200 were dead. Not...
We've already mentioned Israel's quest to build an army of vicious robotic animals destined to go all Matrix and put all of humanity into pods to fuel their cold, sterile robotic society. Turns out the United States is way ahead of them. Its no secret that the United...
A US patrol attempts to enter an Iraqi university campus, but is stopped at the gates by campus officials. Six months ago if we saw this as a lead in to a story, there was a good bet the rest of it would involve the university president being marched out into the...
After yet another incident of the Department of Defense issuing a digitally altered photo to the media, it was announced that the Associated Press would be suspending the use of all photos provided by the Pentagon until further notice. Today, citing a promise from the...
When I first saw Sony's adorable little AIBO, I remember mentioning to a friend that one day these robots would bare their slavering teeth at us, form an army and become truly a scourge unto all of mankind. What I didn't realize at the time is that the Israeli...
