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Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones $26 Software Is Used to Breach Key Weapons in Iraq; Iranian Backing Suspected WASHINGTON — Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. Senior defense and intelligence officials …
Running Interference On Interference December 9, 2009: The U.S. Army, which operates thousands of UAVs (over 90 percent of them the five pound Raven, which gives each company commander his own recon aircraft), has found more and more of them suffering from electronic interference. This problem is expected to get worse, especially as the army …
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Obama as LBJ: Domestic Politics, Escalation and the Descent Into Chaos There have been many comparisons of the Afghan escalation question to its equivalent question in Vietnam 45 years ago, but I think the most ominous similarity lies in the way each escalation debate devolved into intellectual incoherence and confusion, mutating into an exhausted disorder, …
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Unmanned limits: Robotic systems can’t replace a pilot’s gut instinct BY COL. JAMES JINNETTE, USAF Unmanned combat systems have fundamental limitations that can make their technology a war-losing proposition. These limitations involve network vulnerabilities, release consent judgment and, most importantly, creative capacity during air combat and close air support (CAS) missions. Although futurists might assume …
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Hot Topics AA: [Viewpoint] Policy of neglect has already failed 09/10/09 AA: 32 Filipinas in UAE jail pardoned by sheik 09/10/09 AU: Cyber security Tsar needed to lift Australia’s defences? 09/09/09 AU: Australia Says Probe of Timor Deaths Won’t Hurt Indonesia Ties 09/13/09 BD: Dhaka refuses to hand over top ULFA leader to India 09/12/09 …
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A colleague who has reflected on 9-11 offers up the following for futher investigation by citizen-journalists: Core 9/11 relations to integrity & transparency:
