Military Industrial Complex

Full Spectrum Dominance: The entire globe is a battlefield for Pentagon

May 24, 2013

Source: RT Forget it; the Global War on Terror (GWOT) is not becoming more “democratic” – or even transparent. US President Barack Obama now pledges to transfer the responsibility of the shadow ‘Drone Wars’ from the CIA to the Pentagon – so the US Congress is able to monitor it. Until virtually yesterday the Obama administration did [...]

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Killer robots instead of soldiers?

May 21, 2013

Source: DW Increasingly, drones and robots are being used in combat to replace soldiers in high-risk situations. Some researchers and politicians are concerned that, in future, autonomous machines may reign over life and death. A Pentagon video shows a fighter jet taking off from a US aircraft carrier. At first glance, the maneuver is unspectacular. [...]

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Russia to arm Turkey with new military arsenal

May 20, 2013

Source:RBTH As a NATO member, Turkey depends on the supplies of American and European weapons. Moscow has repeatedly tried to get a piece of the action and fascinate the Turkish military with its advanced technology. The first attempt was made at a mid-1990s tender to supply 145 attack helicopters worth $5 billion, when Moscow offered [...]

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Energy Weapons: The Next Gunpowder?

May 18, 2013

Source: NDM Lasers powerful enough for use in war were once a fantastical weapons technology reserved for the sinister and unrealistically complex plots of James Bond villains. In reality, the U.S. military has been investigating and investing in solid-state lasers and other directed energy weapons for half a century. All that work has finally paid [...]

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Asia Is Becoming Israel’s New Frontier

May 14, 2013

Source: Forbes When we think of Israel, we usually think of the Middle East (its neighborhood), North America (its close ally the United States) and Europe (the long history of Ashkenazi Jews). Rarely do we think about Israel and Asia, even less about Asia as Israel’s new frontier. We don’t think of Asia as playing [...]

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Deutschland Bundeswehr soldiers ‘for hire as mercenaries’

April 30, 2013

Source: Local DE German soldiers are moonlighting illegally at private security firms while off-duty, a newspaper revealed on Monday. Working as heavily armed guards on freighters or in war-zones, some do it for the cash and others for the adrenaline kick. As members of the German army, Bundeswehr, soldiers are not allowed to work as mercenaries [...]

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THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR

April 17, 2013

Source: Vice If you thought you knew all there was to know about the Vietnam war, you’re wrong. For example: ever heard of the “mere gook rule,” a code of conduct the US military came up with in order to make it easier for soldiers to murder Vietnamese civilians without feeling too bad about it? [...]

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America needs a new war or capitalism dies

April 17, 2013

Editor’s Note: Are we not in a state of perpetual war / global military operations and expansion ? Source: Market Watch America needs a new war? For the economy to survive? Job market to revive? Capitalism thrive? Maybe. Here’s why: Forbes reported that GDP data “fell for the first time in three and a half years [...]

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Pain Rays and Robot Swarms: The Radical New War Games the DOD Plays

April 15, 2013

Source: Atlantic In the year 2025, a rogue state–long suspected of developing biological weapons–now seems intent on using them against U.S. allies and interests. Anticipating such an event, we have developed a secret “counter-virus” that could infect and destroy their stockpile of bioweapons. Should we use it? From a legal standpoint, it seems pretty straightforward that use [...]

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The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade

March 4, 2013

Source: Scrapweapons This month, SCRAP had the privilege of interviewing Andrew Feinstein; writer, campaigner and former ANC MP in South Africa from 1994-2001. Andrew has recently released his second book, The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, a riveting though shocking foray into the immoral practices of the global arms industry, uncovering the deeply entrenched corrupt [...]

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Europe’s armsmakers scramble for Libya

February 18, 2013

Editors Notes: Scramble to destabilize countries followed by militarization. Related Articles: An All Out Race for Corporations to Raid Libya with “Fixers”, Heritage Oil wastes no time in snapping up Libyan assets, Ex-Special Forces Heritage Oil Chief Aim to Gain Energy Deals in Libya and How to win business in Libya Source: UPI European defense [...]

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Gladius “future soldier” system

February 18, 2013

Source: Gizmag The Rheinmetall Group has been awarded an €84 million (US$112 million) contract to supply a further sixty of its Gladius “future soldier” systems to the German Federal Defense Force (Bundeswehr). The modular system, which provides soldiers with high-tech protective gear backed by a networked array of communication and navigation equipment, will be used [...]

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Hillary Clinton: International Order | New World Order

February 2, 2013

Editors Notes: No question this is right in your face off the cuff speech. You the citizen, the debt slave do not matter because the pillars of major power are dominated by a handful of big institutions and alliances. A blueprint of policies for an International Order. Source: IBT Today the world remains a dangerous [...]

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China building armed forces to win high intensity military operations: Hagel

January 31, 2013

Source: Indian Express China is building and strengthening its armed forces to fight and win high-intensity regional military operations of short duration, US Defence Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel has told lawmakers. “China is pursuing a long-term, comprehensive military modernisation programme designed to improve the capacity of its armed forces to fight and win high-intensity regional [...]

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New arms race in East Asia

January 29, 2013

Source: JP Times The United States and its allies are in the midst of a major expansion of missile defenses in East Asia and the western Pacific. The planned network is designed to detect the launch of a ballistic missile, track the warhead as it arcs high above the earth, and shoot it down with [...]

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China trying to encircle India via tech deals with neighbours: RAW

January 23, 2013

Source: Times of India India should counter China’s move to build and run communication networks in its neighbourhood countries such as Nepal and Maldives, the telecom ministry and the national security establishment have cautioned, following an alarm raised by intelligence agencies. The Research & Analysis Wing, India’s external intelligence agency, raised an alarm in early [...]

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Military contracting: our new era of corporate mercenaries

January 23, 2013

Source: Guardian n early 1995, Sierra Leone was on the brink of collapse. A violent civil war had ravaged the country, leaving thousands dead and countless others wounded. The insurgent rebels, infamous for recruiting child soldiers, were just weeks from the beleaguered capital, Freetown, and appeared unassailable. Several months later, however, the tide had turned: [...]

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Dyncorp Mercs contracted to hunt down MANPADS

January 21, 2013

Editors Notes: Another source confirming Dyncorp mercenary operations from Libya to Syria-Source: TIME The U.S. State Dept. has contracted the security company DynCorp International to help track missing surface-to-air missiles Source: Guardian Dyncorp, a US contractor, used former US special forces and CIA agents equipped with armoured vehicles and satellite communications to locate the missiles. [...]

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THE MARCH OF THE PRIVATE ARMIES

January 7, 2013

Source: Express UK IT SOUNDS like a radically modern idea. With the Royal Navy now downsized to a mere shadow of its former glory how do you protect commercial shipping, not to mention human cargo, in pirate-infested waters? Answer: bring in a private navy. And in a couple of months that is precisely what corporations [...]

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A battleground for weapons of the future

December 2, 2012

Source: Reuters More than a week after a U.S.-Egyptian brokered ceasefire brought a fragile peace to Gaza, military analysts are busily assessing the fighting between Israel and Hamas. Their goal: Apply lessons from the eight-day battle to weaponry still in development. Israel’s frequent conflicts with its Arab neighbors have historically been proving grounds for the [...]

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Terminator war scenario no longer a joke

November 25, 2012

Source: SMH THE use of drones to kill suspected terrorists is controversial, but so long as a human being decides whether to fire the missile, it is not a radical shift in how humanity wages war. Since the first archer fired the first arrow, warriors have been inventing ways to strike their enemies while removing [...]

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Prince of Blackwater heads to Africa

November 20, 2012

Source: CSM Erik Prince, the man who founded Blackwater, the private military contractor that became synonymous with mercenary excess during the Iraq war, has apparently begun a bold new business venture: He’s going to be investing with a group of unnamed Chinese government-linked companies in resource extraction and infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa. At least that’s [...]

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Raytheon software can monitor world media 24/7

September 21, 2012

Source: Fox News It’s amazing technology, stuff deployed operationally since 2004 by the Department of Defense for a variety of purposes, including open-source intelligence, information operations, public affairs and PsyOps. Raytheon’s BBN Broadcast Monitoring System automatically captures foreign media and deploys state of the art technology to translate, transcribe and analyze those video and audio [...]

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DARPA threat detection technology uses a camera to see targets, software and soldier brains to identify them

September 20, 2012

Source: Engadget DARPA aids our military in myriad ways, from designing one shot, one kill weapons to creating robotic pack mules to carry soldiers’ gear. It’s also been building tools for soldiers to better survey their environment and identify threats, and its latest such tool is called the Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System (CT2WS). CT2WS [...]

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U.S. Navy Eyes Technology To Cloak Subs

September 17, 2012

Source: Aviation Week The U.S. Navy is investing in research that could make its submarines even stealthier with cloaking technology that seems to come straight out of a Tom Clancy thriller or a Star Trek movie script. Developed by New York-based Weidlinger Associates with U.S. Navy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding, the technology involves [...]

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Australian accused of funding Saracen and Sterling Corporate Mercenaries in Somalia

September 4, 2012

Source: ABC News [...] The Somalia Monitoring Group has identified a complex web of companies, called Saracen and Sterling Corporate Services, that were hired to train and equip the largest militia group in Somalia. Matt Bryden, who heads the monitoring group, found the companies’ operations were shrouded in mystery. “Most of the requests the monitoring [...]

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NASA taps prisoners to build satellite parts

July 30, 2012

Known as Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployers (henceforth “PPODs”), the devices are used to mount small cubesat satellites on launch vehicles. When correctly configured, the PPOD secures the tiny satellite in place through launch, then releases it into space at the appointed time. Despite its crucial purpose however, the PPOD is a relatively low-tech device. It’s simple [...]

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The Future of Drone Surveillance: Swarms of Cyborg Insect Drones

June 20, 2012

Source: Network World Forget the roachbots and the swarm of MIT humanoid robots dancing in sync, as well as “disposable” quarter-sized kilobots which are “cheap enough to swarm in the thousands,” and think instead of DARPA-like tiny insect cyborg drones that are “designed to go places that soldiers cannot” to work as spies or as [...]

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The Incredible Next-Generation Drones That Will Rule The Skies

June 6, 2012

Even with drones already dominating the skies, neutralizing adversaries and covertly collecting data, new research is still underway on the generation of pilotless planes to come. And the United States isn’t the only country interested in developing long-range and lethal drone technology. Read More/Pictures: Business Insider Image: BAE

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