“So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with …
In the 23rd century, Capt. James T. Kirk of the starship Enterprise famously (and routinely) ordered his crew to “set phasers on stun” against unarmed or lightly-armed attackers. In the …
While not quite meeting the full criteria for classification as “unintended consequences,” the urgency and alacrity surrounding the acquisition and fielding of the U.S. military’s joint Mine Resistant Ambush Protected …
During World War II, waves of Allied aircraft dropped thousands of bombs on German cities, military installations, railroads, and industrial facilities. Where a given bomb might hit was as much …
For nearly half a century, the 16-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) stood ready to confront a massive air and land attack from its Eastern European counterpart, the Soviet-dominated Warsaw …
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is the world’s largest exposition of cutting edge civilian technology – both recently entered into the marketplace and planned to begin …
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire. Edward Luttwak. Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press. 2009. 512pp. $35 hardcover. ISBN 978-0-674-03519-5
In 1976, military analyst Edward Luttwak published The Grand Strategy of …
On Dec. 19, 2009, shortly after the U.S. Senate had passed the Department of Defense (DoD) Appropriations Act of 2010 by a vote of 88 to 10, President Barack Obama …
In recent years, the U.S. government has abruptly ended or curtailed numerous major technology programs. While those decisions were based on a wide range of reasons – from cost to …
Although Haiti has faded from the headlines, the humanitarian relief effort that began immediately after the island nation was rocked by a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Jan. 12 continues. …
