Tag: military

Future battlefield

in the future battlefield, if you stay in 1 place longer than 2 hours, you will be dead.

units will be in constant motion

There will no clear front line, no secure supply lines, no big bases

enemy drones and sensors constantly on the hunt (like Terminator Hunter Killers)

Army destroying sensors, defenses, and missiles to open paths for the rest of the force.

Soldiers will fight with everything from rifles and tanks to electronic jammers, computer viruses, and long-range missiles striking targets on the land, in the air, and even at sea

Largest war in history

The largest war in animal history — in fact, by numbers the largest war in history — is going on right now. The supercolony grew to cover most of the United States. Then it spread to England, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. L. humile is now abundant on every continent except Antarctica, and wherever she goes, she slaughters native ant species Things have not been perfect. Near San Diego, a schism formed, and a separate supercolony was created. The battlefront extends for km; some 30M ants die there every year. But for now, a global megacolony still persists, consisting of around 1T individuals: a humble brown ant united in war against every other ant alive.

GoT got nothing on these guys. Super vicious.

Deep Maneuver

The earliest example of robotic deep maneuver I’ve found is an operation from WW2 called Fu-Go. Fu-Go was the Japanese attempt to bomb the continental US using balloon bombs. Although Fu-Go was a complete failure, I find it useful as a way to think productively about how robotic intelligence can be used to surmount physical challenges (distance, time, etc.). This intelligence would allow them to leverage a wide variety of environmental factors to extend mission duration and range, from using wind/ocean currents to hitchhiking on vehicles (ships, trucks, aircraft, etc.) to slow self-propulsion using solar energy (or buoyancy).

Pentagon Celebrates 25 Years Of Bombing Iraq

Bringing together the many civilian leaders and military strategists who helped them reach such a historic milestone, Pentagon officials held a lavish black-tie gala Sunday at which they commemorated 25 years of the United States bombing Iraq.

Hundreds of active-duty and retired military officers, high-ranking members of the past 4 presidential administrations, and executives from top defense contractors reportedly gathered in the grand ballroom of D.C.’s Fairmont Hotel to dine, mingle, and celebrate a quarter century spent routinely dropping 1000s of tons of explosive ordnance across the Middle Eastern nation—from the Jan. 17, 1991 onset of airstrikes in the Gulf War to the current bombardment of suspected ISIS targets.

The origins of junk food

Just about any processed food with a shelf life of more than a couple of days probably has its origins in the Natick Center

Dogs helped us to exterminate hominin

i’m sure this will be some viral hit, but i think it’s more interesting in the way it shows the deep co-evolution of our 2 species

The symbiotic relationship between dog and man is responsible for the victory of our lineage of hominins in the evolutionary war of all against all

Veteran mental health

For every active duty soldier killed in combat, 22 veterans died by their own hand.

“Look at the people who go to the military. Who are they, for the most part? They aren’t well-adjusted in the first place. If you want to send people to the military who don’t come back with trauma, send well-adjusted people. But well-adjusted people don’t want to go to war.”

F-35 is garbage

the F-35 is demonstrably inferior in a dogfight with the F-16, which the US Air Force first acquired in the late 1970s.

this is what over $1T of crony capitalism gets you: a pile of junk.

The first market state

It was at this moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional corporation, trading and silks and spices, and became something much more unusual. Within a few years, 250 company clerks backed by the military force of 20K locally recruited Indian soldiers had become the effective rulers of Bengal. An international corporation was transforming itself into an aggressive colonial power.

OODA Loop

Boyd’s ongoing theoretical analyses and discourses resulted in “Patterns of Conflict” briefings and the insightful and useful OODA Loop. Seldom has one man made such great contributions and engendered massive change through pure grit and determination. Ultimately, Boyd’s perceptions not only influenced military aviation but his “maneuver warfare” doctrines, adopted by upcoming officers, also influenced US Marine Corps fighting methodology at the very core.