Drones and the US Air Force

Fascinating analysis of the use of drones on a modern battlefield—that is, Ukraine—and the inability of the US Air Force to react to this change. The F-35A certainly remains an important platform ...

The Future of Drone Warfare

Ukraine is using $400 drones to destroy tanks: Facing an enemy with superior numbers of troops and armor, the Ukrainian defenders are holding on with the help of tiny drones flown by ...

Smartphones and Civilians in Wartime

Interesting article about civilians using smartphones to assist their militaries in wartime, and how that blurs the important legal distinction between combatants and non-combatants: The principle of distinction between the two roles ...
Lips: A Looseness, Thereof

Lips: A Looseness, Thereof

Well, there you have it: A resurgence of World War II era loose-lip stupidity - this time attached to a criminal hacking campaign by certain hackster entities (EvaPiks) sharing too much data ...
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Dark Web Two-Step

| | Cyberwar, Must Read, War
Jason Rivera (a Director at CrowdStrike) and Wanda Archy (a Supervisor in RSM's security practice, targeting the Dark Web), writing at Small Wars Journal, in a remarkable tour de force of darkness ...
Gerhard Jacob's 'Taking Stock: The Internet of Things and Machine Learning Algorithms at War'

Gerhard Jacob’s ‘Taking Stock: The Internet of Things and Machine Learning Algorithms at War’

Image Credit , Israeli Defense Forces, The IDF Desert Rreconnaissance Battalion Training Exercises Terrific blog post by Gerhard Jacobs, writing at the Imperva Cybersecurity blog, and discussing IoT and ML with Gilad ...
Internetworking WMD

Internetworking WMD

via Anthony Rutkowski, writing at CircleID, comes this tremendous piece on the conveyance as a weapon, entitled 'Internet as Non-Kinetic WMD'. Today's Must Read. "What is amazing about all of these contemporary ...
D-Day, Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944

D-Day, Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944

“… these men came here – British and our Allies, and Americans – to storm these beaches for one purpose only, not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions ...
Hidden Cobra, The Korean Dance of Peace

Hidden Cobra, The Korean Dance of Peace

| | Espionage, North Korea, War
via Dan Goodin's superlative reportage at ArsTechnica, we learn of the action in Panmunjom was - colloquially - the tip of the iceberg... "It would be highly unusual for any country to ...