by Jordan Golson | Sep 5, 2014 | Monitor
Boeing is building a laser cannon for the U.S. Army, and the new weapon has now proved it will be as capable at sea as on land. The High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD)—basically a high-energy laser mounted on top of a big truck—was successfully...
by Matthew Wallin | Aug 7, 2014 | Monitor
With the war in Afghanistan “winding down,” the U.S. military is assessing its current stock of equipment and weaponry to determine its needs for the future. Over more than a decade of war, there is little doubt that America’s military equipment has been used and...
by zen | Jul 15, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen’] American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant by Ann Scott Tyson When I first posted that I had received a review copy of American Spartan from Callie, it stirred a vigorous...
by zen | Jun 18, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Michael Lotus, a,k.a. “Lexington Green” of Chicago Boyz blog and co-author of America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century gives his review of the 2014 National Security Seminar at the US Army...
by Charles Cameron | May 3, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — fascinated to see the uses others make of the juxtapositions I call “DoubleQuotes” ] . This first one was suggested to me by Scott Shipman as a “match” for my DQ about Von Karman’s mathematics of flow in...
