"This is a clear step towards one of the main goals of the US Army's Future Combat Systems project, which aims to make a single soldier the nexus for a large scale robot attack. Independently, ground and aerial robots have been tested together and once the bits are joined, there will b...
As the number of professional soldiers starts to dwindle, the future army turns to civilians. Which brings us to Dan, still dutifully teaching his class of increasingly despondent high school students, who know that it's their generation who will have to suffer this horrible, unavoidable fate. ...
And I remember, oh so vividly, the scene of Russian officers beating young Airborne soldiers to a pulp for minor transgressions. Leadership through fear was a new concept for me – but as we learned, it was a common tactic amongst those with whom we now soldiered. I remember applying firs...
We begin our conversation discussing the history and varied purposes of the military’s different special operations forces. Dick then explains how a soldier becomes an Army Ranger and why going to Ranger School isn’t the thing that makes you a Ranger. He walks us through the process of beco...
At South Star, Morello and his band opened their set with “Soldier in the Army of Love,” a single from his forthcoming, first-ever solo rock album. Morello wrote the song, which adds a gospel-soul hook to the guitarist’s signature rap-rock, with son Roman Morello. Roman also ...
Most money is fiat; a ship's cargo of the stuff is wastepaper elsewhere. Bank credit is worth even less; Galactic distances are too great. Even money that jingles must be thought of as trade goods — not money — or you'll kid yourself into starvation. I had worked the first leg, ...
After hundreds of restaurant meals with my parents, after a lifetime of thinking of my father as the one with dollars, it had all changed.I reached for the check, and my view of myself suddenly changed.I was an adult.I was no longer a kid. Some people mark off(区分)their lives in...
This kicked off a round of public health hysteria that led the US government to mandate that every citizen in the country be vaccinated. In the end, only one soldier at Fort Dix died of the swine flu and no one outside of the base even tested positive for it, but the emergency ...
24/Jan/1972Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier unaware World War II is over, is found on the island of Guam after hiding for 28 years 25/Jan/1565Battle at Talikota – the Deccan sultanate destroy Vijayanagar’s army and the last Hindu kingdom of Southern India ...
As a kid growing up on a healthy diet of superhero comics, video games, and superhero-themed cartoons that were very much ahead of their time on social issues, I often daydreamed about how awesome it would be to have the same powers as my favorite heroes. As an adult, I ...