by Noah Shachtman | Dec 31, 2012 | Monitor
Drones may be at the center of the U.S. campaign to take out extremists around the globe. But the Pentagon says there’s a “pervasive vulnerability” in the robotic aircraft — and in just about every car, medical device and power …
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 25, 2012 | Monitor
At the intersection of fat-shaming and war-mongering comes a bizarre public health campaign: an effort by retired generals and admirals to ban sugary sodas and snacks from public schools. The kids today, say the former brass, are too fat to fight for their country....
by Katie Drummond | Sep 24, 2012 | Monitor
World’s Most Wired War Healer Joachim Kohn Kohn, responding to e-mails in his office on the Rutgers campus. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired Dr. Joachim Kohn has never seen combat. He has never retaliated enemy fire, deployed with a platoon to some foreign, war-ravaged nation,...
by Noah Shachtman | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, center, with Afghan surgeon general Ahmed Yaftali. Photo: U.S. Army One of the Army’s top generals went before Congress Wednesday to deny that he was a shill for the Obama White House and a careerist so concerned with his own...
by Spencer Ackerman | Jul 24, 2012 | Monitor
An F/A-22 Raptor assigned to the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron sits on the flightline at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Photo: U.S. Air Force The mysterious engineering problem causing F-22 Raptor pilots to choke in their cockpits has been solved, the Pentagon...