by Allen McDuffee | Feb 24, 2014 | Monitor
In Silicon Valley, walking around with an augmented reality display on your face makes you a glasshole. But on the battlefield, similar technology will soon turn U.S. soldiers into a lethal cross between the Terminator and Iron Man.
by Andrew Exum | Apr 1, 2013 | Monitor
Georgia’s state senate thinks it can just take Tennessee’s water. This means war. As a son of Lookout Mountain and an Iraq and Afghanistan vet, I know how to stop the Georgians.
by Noah Shachtman | Nov 12, 2012 | Monitor
Former CIA director David Petraeus — along with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess — take their seats in a January hearing on Capitol Hill. Photo:...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 19, 2012 | Monitor
Marine reserves, attached to Special Marine Air-Ground Task Force-24, and a group of Peruvian Marines, listen to the range orientation brief in English and Spanish before a 2010 training exercise. Photo: DVIDS Insurgents and terrorists in Yemen, Somalia and beyond owe...
by Noah Shachtman | Sep 7, 2012 | Monitor
Two U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles and a B-2 bomber fly in formation. Photo: USAF Should the U.S. actually take Benjamin Netanyahu’s advice and attack Iran, don’t expect a few sorties flown by a couple of fighter jocks. Setting back Iran’s...
