How Iraq, Afghanistan Have Changed War 101 ; A College for Officers at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Draws on the Experience of Those Fighting the War on Terror
“This is an absolutely tragic case and for too long we did not have enough helicopters in Afghanistan – that is a point I made over many years. “I think the situation is now a lot better. The number of helicopters and helicopter hours has increased specifically since the US marines arr...
Mr Xi will be around for the rest of Mr Obama’s time and for six years after he is gone, so frequent summits and many more bilateral meetings at all levels are essential. “Military-to-military co-operation” has languished and should be improved. A return to the close personal ...
Currently, many of the animals working in Iraq and Afghanistan graduate from the same facilities. Their role, however, has evolved. In 2007, the Marines piloted a program with nine bomb-sniffing dogs after it was demonstrated that canine noses could detect improvised exploding devices, or IEDs,...
For many years now, science fiction writers have made prophesies about futuristic technologies that have later become a reality. In 1964, Arthur C. Clarke famously predicted the internet. And in 1983, Isaac Asimov predicted that modern life would become impossible without computers....
Afghanistan “has a long and locally complex history of armed groups –both mujahideen and Taliban,” analyst Kate Clark wrote at the Afghanistan Analysts Network in 2011. “Which is the result of war, migration, land disputes, the championing and repression of different groups depending on who ...
The soldiers were bored and shellshocked and angry. They had been sent to Afghanistan as part of a new advance guard on a mission to track down the Taliban, but the enemy was nowhere to be found. “To be honest, I couldn’t tell the difference between local nati...
Middle East, the US actually occupied and continues to occupy Afghanistan. We also occupied Iraq for many years. Furthermore, we have created vast American bases in places like Bahrain, and Kuwait, and Qatar. Al-Qaeda's strategy was a failure for both the organizatio...
Ukraine's AI effort benefits from its society's broad willingness to contribute data for the war effort. Citizens upload geotagged photos potentially relevant for the country's defence into a government app called Diia (Ukrainian for “action”). Many businesses supply Mantis Analytics, a firm in...
Why denigrate a man who gave rights to Arab women over a thousand years before our so-called feminist movement? Before the Prophet, Arab men could beat their wives, could take as many wives as they wished, and the women had no rights that men had to respect. Isl...