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Air Force Starts to Sing from Gates' Hymnalwired.com » Wired: Danger Room - Nov 12, 2008 The most startling change in Robert Gates' Pentagon has been the outbreak of common sense. Today's real-world wars has been emphasized over tomorrow's imaginary ones; battle-planning bluster has been replaced with … Also tagged: strategery |
wired.com » Wired: Danger Room - Nov 7, 2008
For a while, there, the Air Force was selling itself as the only service that could lead the military through a cyber war. Now, the Pentagon chiefs have made it clear: They're not buying. All of the military services …
Also tagged: info war
wired.com » Wired: Danger Room - Oct 3, 2008
Ask an Air Force general why he needs so many new stealth fighters, and he'll warn of sophisticated "peer competitors," like China and Russia. Both countries are building up their air defenses. Both countries are …
Also tagged: strategery, planes copters blimps, money money money, cash rules everything around me
wired.com » Wired: Danger Room - Sep 25, 2008
Six generals have been smacked for their involvement in the mishandling of nuclear gear. One got a career-killing "letter of reprimand," and has "requested retirement." The other five will likely be barred from future …
Also tagged: nukes
wired.com » Wired: Danger Room - Sep 17, 2008
The Navy's program to build next-generation stealth destroyers has been taking on water for a while. Now, it may be on the verge of sinking. The DDG-1000 Zumwalt program has been slashed from seven ships to two, and …
Also tagged: money money money, ships and subs, politricks, cash rules everything around me
wired.com » Wired: Danger Room - Sep 2, 2008
Outside contractors were supposed to save the federal government money. But, in the U.S. intelligence community, at least, that's not how things have panned out. A typical contract worker in the spy agencies rakes in …
Also tagged: cloak and dagger, money money money, mercs, cash rules everything around me
wired.com » Wired: Danger Room - Sep 2, 2008
Outside contractors were supposed to save the federal government money. But, in the U.S. intelligence community, at least, that's not how things have panned out. A typical contract worker in the spy agencies rakes in …
Also tagged: cloak and dagger, money money money, mercs, cash rules everything around me
wired.com » Wired: Danger Room - Aug 18, 2008
It's been a roller coast ride for the National Reconnaissance Office, the intelligence agency that builds the country's spy satellites. Shortly after Sept. 11, a former top CIA official told me the secretive space …
wired.com » Wired: Danger Room - Aug 4, 2008
We've heard it over and over and over again. But this time, the military's non-lethal weaponeers swear, its pain ray is finally, really, truly, swear-to-God ready to deploy to Iraq. Promise. “The system now is there …
Also tagged: less lethal, lasers and ray guns
wired.com » Wired: Danger Room - Jul 18, 2008
The Marines are charging two senior non-commissioned officers for taking part in what the San Diego Union Tribune calls "a theft ring that involved the stealing of secret files on potential terrorists." But no one is …
Also tagged: t is for terror