In another violation of the notion of centering human rights in arms sales policy – underscored in an essay by my colleague Hayden Schmidt — [in March 2022] the Biden administration announced the proposed sale of F-15 combat aircraft to the al-Sisi dictatorship in Egypt, one of the most ...
[...]of chartered aircraft and vessels to transport equipment, assets and supplies from the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy, and from Miami, Florida, United States of America, to Haiti following the earthquake;theinadvertentrecording of expenditures related to special measures for ...
Radiation leaks south of Japan from an American hydrogen bomb accidentally dropped from an aircraft carrier in 1965. In the 1990s equipment malfunctions led to Russian missiles accidentally being switched to "combat mode," according to a 1998 CIA report. The cold war rush to build nuclear ...
The North Korean launches represent a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions that bar North Korea from engaging in any ballistic missile activity. But the council typically doesn’t impose new sanctions when the North launches short-range missiles, like Wednesday’s. Wednesday’s te...
The focus of the Investigation was on the sequence of events from the instant of aircraft impact to the initiation of collapse for each tower. For brevity in this report, this sequence is referred to as the "probable collapse sequence," although it does not actually include the structural beha...
Shortly before midnight, four F-15 and four F-16 aircraft took off from the Ramat David Airbase in northern Israel. The target marked on their computers was an isolated square-shaped building in a desert in northeastern Syria. They flew north along the Mediterranean Sea and then turned ...
Suppose a group of professional “hackers” obtain control over a pilotless aircraft and direct its payload to target a friendly site, how does this become classified under U.S.C.? Or gain control over battlefield systems in a combat theatre and redirect those weapon systems?
experiments in converting Mig-21 aircraft into UAVs capable of carrying 2,000 liter spray tanks prior to the Gulf War. 2 It is important to note that this report covers only Iraqi systems that are known through inspections to be WMD capable and not those systems that could be modified to ...
Perpetrators of violence learn their craft in childhood. If you inflict violence on a child, they learn to inflict violence on others. The political leaders who decide to wage war, the military leaders who plan and conduct it, as well as the soldiers, sailors and aircraft perso...