Launching a Search [Eyes] and Rescue [Payload] Challenge for [Mini] Drone / UAV Pilots

Launching a Search and Rescue Challenge for Drone / UAV Pilots My colleague Timothy Reuter (of AidDroids fame) kindly invited me to co-organize the Drone/UAV Search and Rescue Challenge for the DC Drone User Group. The challenge will take place on May 17th near Marshall in Virginia. The rules for the competition are based on the …

Owl: Did an Electro-Magnetic Pulse Bomb Take Down the Malaysian Airlines Flight to China?

Did a Non-Nuclear Electro Magnetic Pulse Weapon Take Down Flight 370? This article poses the theory that Flight 370 was taken down by a non-nuclear portable EMP device to work as a dry run for more future and large coordinated attacks against cities. This type of attack in essence fries the electronics of jets and …

SchwartzReport: Drone Assassination Threat Against US Officials

It is the nature of implemented war technologies that they create arms races that always have unintended consequences. The use of drones is the latest example. It is just a matter of time until American officials start being killed by drones, probably beginning when they are out of the country. Technologies of violence feed on …

Daniel Ellsberg: US Culture of Secrecy & Security Overreach

Q&A: Daniel Ellsberg on US surveillance The famed American whistle-blower discusses US national security, and those who expose its overreach. Sadie Luetmer Al Jazeera, 24 February 2014 Huntingdon, United States – In 1971, US military analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked thousands of pages of a top-secret study on the Vietnam War to the American press. The …

Reflections: how can the intelligence community remain relevant in the 21st century

Reflections: Seven Steps to US Intelligence Reform I was quite surprised to see multiple searches using the same language. It is an important question that I have been asking — and answering — since 1988 when I helped create the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (today a mini-me of the larger mis-directed secret intelligence world). My …