Technology changes things, sure. The question is, how do you recognize the early signs of change before they become catastrophic? I spend most of my days working on that question in academia, but what about our armed forces? Noah Shachtman regularly covers that issue in DefenseTech.

Posted April 5, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: big iron, defense, defense spending, defensetech, future combat, future military, John Arquilla, military, noah shachtman, pentagon, war. Be the first one.

DefenseTech’s Noah Shachtman writes:
Organizing thousands and thousands of people, in hellish conditions and in a hurry, is tough work. Let’s take that as a given. But still: We’re now a work week into a natural disaster that had been forecast for years, and New Orleans “is being run by thugs,” the city’s emergency [...]

Posted September 2, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: bush, defensetech, dhs, disaster, donations, emergency, fema, flood, george bush, george w bush, gulf coast, homeland security, hurricane, hurricane katrina, katrina, louisiana, new orleans, pat robertson, shame, w, wtf. 3 Comments.

Some time ago I pointed to John Robb’s discussion of the potential for the network to amplify the threat of violence from otherwise un-connected and un-organized individuals. Now Noah Shachtman at DefenseTech is writing about “open source insurgents.”
It used to be that a small group of ideological-driven guerilla leaders would spread information, tactics, training, and [...]

Posted August 17, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: defensetech, guerillas, ideological, insurgents, iraq, john robb, metcalfe's law, network effects, noah shachtman, open source, open source insurgency, open source violence, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, world connections, world wide web. One Comment.

DefenseTech reported on the FireFly, a disposable camera that can be shot from the M203 grenade launchers used by US land forces. The cameras fly 600 meters in eight seconds, wirelessly sending pictures back to the soldier’s PDA. Now they’ll know what’s over that hill or around that corner.
Not that soldiers don’t need this sort [...]

Posted August 9, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: ballistic, camera, defensetech, disposable camera, firefly, grenade, grenade camera, grenade launcher, grenade launchers, ground forces, m203, military, point and shoot, point n shoot, soldier, soldiers. Be the first one.

Via Defense Tech: Slate did a series last week titled A Nuclear Family Vacation that visited the Nevada Test Site; Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Labs; and Trinity. Extra: a slideshow accompanies the text and the authors interviewed on NPR’s Day to Day.
Related: previous nuclear stories at MaisonBisson.

tags: albuquerque, defensetech, lawrence livermore, los [...]

Posted July 24, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Politics & Controversy, Travel. Tags: albuquerque, defensetech, lawrence livermore, los alamos, national lab, national labs, nevada test site, nuclear, nuclear family, sandia. Be the first one.