by Robert Beckhusen | Oct 18, 2012 | Monitor
A U.S. Marine prepares explosives for a controlled demolition exercise on March 1, 2012 in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Photo: USMC To find hidden bombs, the U.S. military has tried everything from sniffing their chemical scent to shooting lasers into the ground. The...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 17, 2012 | Monitor
A cache of weapons used to construct homemade bombs in Afghanistan, November 2010. Photo: ISAF/Flickr The signature insurgent weapon of Iraq and Afghanistan is proving more durable than either war. Every month, outside either the U.S. former warzone or its remaining...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 11, 2012 | Monitor
Army Spc. Louis Phay strings barbed wire to block off a culvert on Afghanistan’s Highway 601. Insurgents use holes in the roads to hide homemade bombs. Photo: Flickr/U.S. Army Contract fraud in Afghanistan has yielded a major unexpected threat to U.S. troops...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 1, 2012 | Monitor
Army Staff Sgt. Nicholas Amsberry guides a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle through Shorabak, Afghanistan, June 28, 2012. Photo: Flickr/Soldiersmediacenter In a saner world, the Pentagon wouldn’t throw itself a party to celebrate its purchase of thousands...
by Spencer Ackerman | Jul 26, 2012 | Monitor
Boeing’s mega-bunker-buster bomb during its first explosive test at White Sands Missile Range, 2007. Photo: Wikimedia Just as the U.S. returns its attention to concealed weapons of mass destruction programs in Syria and (possibly) Iran, the Air Force is saying...