by aelkus | Jun 13, 2013 | Monitor
Edward Snowden is one of history’s great actors. But not in the way his admirers (and some detractors) believe, as will be made clear at the end of this post. An earlier draft of this entry looked at the leak, but not much useful things can really be written at...
by aelkus | Jun 6, 2013 | Monitor
I am staying away from Twitter and most social media today, which has become mostly dysfunctional over the NSA stories. As with any other complicated topic dealing with national security, the vast majority of immediate output is garbage. However, perennial source of...
by aelkus | Jun 5, 2013 | Monitor
My views on women in close combat once hewed pretty close to those of our great Blogfather Exum. However, after reading Azar Gat’s War in Human Civilization (as well as his other corpus) and hearing some convincing (and pessimistic) arguments from friends with...
by aelkus | May 30, 2013 | Monitor
Earlier this year, the Colombian military whacked “32 high-value narco-terrorists” with the help of US Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconaissance (ISR) platforms. Today, we now know that they are all Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) members from...
by aelkus | May 27, 2013 | Monitor
Running through much common misunderstanding of drones, autonomous weapons ,and modern warfare is a romantic fetish of the “natural” and a demonization of the machine and those who use it. Dan Trombly and I have talked about it from the perspective of...
