by J.ScottShipman | Jun 5, 2014 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] A Low Visibility Force Multiplier, Assessing China’s Cruise Missile Ambitions, Dennis M. Gormley, Andrew S. Erickson, Jingdong Yuan Through an interesting...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Malaysia flight 370 seen through the media glass, darkly ] . ** Here’s Fallows in The Atlantic on Malaysia flight 370: As the years go by, I am more and more convinced that the immediate, fast-twitch talk-show responses on what we...
by zen | Dec 21, 2012 | Monitor
Hat tip for a strong recommendation from Adam Elkus: Josh Foust has a very sensible piece up about the seemingly endless furor about “killer drones” (we never called our warplanes “Killer F-16′s” or guided weapons “killer cruise...
by Robert Beckhusen | Jul 19, 2012 | Monitor
The Great Horned Owl. Photo: ahisgett/Flickr For spy tools, drones are pretty easy to spot. And hear, because they’re as loud as a gut-busting rock concert. But now the intelligence community’s research division, Iarpa, plans to start designing a silent...