Marcus Aurelius: War Games Test 2 Versions of US Army — Current and Planned Army Loses Big, Innovation Army Triumphs

War game compares response of 2 versions of future Army By Lance M. Bacon Staff writer Army Times, Nov. 25, 2013 – 06:00AM A reduced reliance on airfields and seaports in a recent war game resulted in increased speed and entry operations. New Gear: What’s next If necessity is the mother of invention, get ready …

Winslow Wheeler: Stop the Assassination of the A-10

Usually ignored by the press as insufficiently interesting to technology dazzled editors and reviled by the civilian and military leadership of the Air Force as not what they think they should spend money and careers on, the A-10 “Warthog” has broken through into Washington DC’s consciousness.  Interestingly, the attention was provoked by a heavy handed …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Assasins for Hire – Pay with Bitcoin China and Bitcoin Cyber Security Tools List Cyber Threat to Energy Sector CryptoLocker Protection Dark Money Groups Fueled by Cable Deterrence? A Revaluation of Premises (Russ Wellen) Hanford Nuclear Gets Worse Happiness is Love.  Period. (Harvard Study, 75 Years) Intelligence Information Sharing (Small Wars Journal) Malware Epidemics (Recorded …

NIGHTWATCH: Astounding Syrian Concessions Protect Israel — US Analysts Dull [Ignorant] — World Edges Away from Brink of WWIII — NIGHTWATCH Tutorial for Dull Analysts

Syria: Update. Opposition sources say government forces attacked the hills around Ma’aloula village early on Monday under the cover of heavy shelling. The Christian village is reported to be almost empty after most of its residents fled following the arrival of the foreign-backed militants last week. According to a resident, who left the area in …

Internet Society: Questionnaire on Multistakeholder Participation in Internet Governance + Open Letter to the Internet Society

Internet Society Launches Questionnaire on Multistakeholder Participation in Internet Governance 02 August 2013 Part of broader dialogue on open and multistakeholder governance for a sustainable Internet [Washington, D.C. and Geneva, Switzerland] — The Internet Society today announced the launch of a survey to gain greater insights into multistakeholder governance perceptions and processes at all levels …

Berto Jongman: From the English — High Idiocy on Open Access

Comments are more intelligent than the article. Why open access makes no sense There can be no such thing as free access to academic research, says Robin Osborne in Debating Open Access essays – research is a process that universities teach and charge for Read article and comments.