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There are only two winners in war: medicine and technology. The imperative to save lives and then provide wounded warriors with the best care and rehabilitation has been a powerful force producing dramatic advances in such areas as emergency medicine, trauma surgery, the treatment of burns, prosthetic
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Date:
8/7/2012
Wherever you go in America, you are under surveillance. At any ATM, every public building, on all major highways, in many public elevators and even on the sidewalk in front of your neighbor’s house (if he has a security system), you are being watched. In addition, as YouTube and the nightly news
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Date:
7/19/2012
War has always been an incubator for innovation. This is no less true of the current fights in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the most important innovations to come out of the past decade of conflict, really a military revolution, was in unmanned tactical Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Surveillance
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Date:
7/5/2012
Last week, the United States lost one of its most prized intelligence platforms. An RQ-170 Sentinel, a bat-winged, stealthy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) reportedly landed in Iran after contact with ground control was lost. There were unconfirmed reports that an RQ-170 was overhead during the raid
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12/7/2011
In a recent story for Bloomberg Businessweek, Tony Capaccio, one of the best defense reporters in Washington, broke the story about the use by Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan of a Switchblade. As the capitalization of the word might indicate, the Switchblade to which I am referring
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Date:
10/19/2011

