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Honduras Army Overthrows President

On Sunday, Honduras saw the first military coup in South America since the end of the Cold War, as the Armed Forces moved in exile leftist President Manuel Zelaya to Costa Rica. Pro-Zelaya protesters took to the streets, and Reuters reports that shots were fired near the presidential palace, although it was not immed...

29 June 2009
03:58 GMT

The Soldier of the Future Will Be Similar to Master Chief

The future has always puzzled humanity and scientists, but it has also proved to be an interesting aspect for the gaming industry, which has seen a lot of its creations take place many years, decades or centuries in the future and also offered some interesting views on how things will be then. But thanks to a recent...

26 May 2009
16:41 GMT

Insurgents Contributed to Konami's Six Days in Fallujah

The gaming industry has been on high alert in the last few days, ever since Konami announced that it would release a game based on the battles in Iraq, more specifically on the Operation Phantom Fury, which was the second battle the US Marines fought in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. The game, entitled Six Days in Fall...

14 April 2009
15:01 GMT

Six Days in Fallujah Supported by Some Military Men

After Konami, as the publisher, and Atomic Games, as the developer, announced that they planned to create and release a videogame called Six Days in Fallujah, a great deal of outrage was expressed, coming both from anti war coalitions and from people who served with the United States Army in Iraq.Their main complaint...

13 April 2009
16:11 GMT

Information Warfare Is Crucial in Combating Terrorism

The fight against international terrorism is not just one that is to be carried on the battlefield, a new study conducted by Israeli researchers says. Rather, information warfare is at the forefront of the struggle, as the support or critics of the general population, in any country, can be won or lost very easily th...

18 March 2009
11:19 GMT

Army Uses Video Games to Recruit Teens

In an attempt to address an ever-decreasing number of new recruits strengthening America's forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other parts of the world, the US Army is currently adopting a new way of recruiting young men and women for active service. In northeast Philadelphia, it has set up a new experimental recru...

14 January 2009
02:22 GMT

Palestinian Supporters Hack NATO and U.S. Army Sites

The cyberwar between hackers supporting the Palestinian cause and their Israel sympathizing counter-parts continues. After compromising thousands of Israeli websites, the Jihad attackers have moved on to targeting high profile sites that belong to the U.S. military or NATO. Four websites belonging to the United Stat...

10 January 2009
04:10 GMT

U.S. Army Bans Removable Media Devices

Unsuccessful in stopping the rapid spread of a variant of the SillyFDC worm, the Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command has resorted to unprecedented measures, and signed an order that prohibited the use of all flash memory cards, optical disks, thumb drives, and any other removable storage devices on both the army&...

21 November 2008
05:56 GMT

US Army Sued by the State of Maryland on Pollution Grounds

The citizens of Maryland are discontented by the US Army's constant failure to respect the timetable imposed last year by the Environmental Protection Agency for cleaning up the polluting mess. Although army officials claim they take care of it, they say they're doing it at their own pace. The Pentagon reso...

17 October 2008
10:10 GMT

US Army Prepares for Wars of the Future

The US Army plans to invest massively in developing improved technology for waging the wars of the future. Simultaneously, their recruitment approaches become more aggressive.Thomas Killion, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology, believes that developing nanobots will be a great asset...

15 October 2008
08:16 GMT

The Army of Terracotta Soldiers

In 1974, while digging for a well, the Chinese farmers from a village in the Shaanxi province discovered several terracotta statues. They were the first of thousands of statue-soldiers of an army buried in the tomb of the Chinese emperor Qin Shihuang, who died 2,200 years ago. The 8,099 soldiers, 300 horses and 200 c...

19 March 2008
09:51 GMT

Who Were the Byzantines?

Initially, Byzantium was a Greek city located on the European shore of the Bosporus strait, which separates Asia Minor from Europe. Understanding the importance of this settlement, surrounded from three parts by water, the Roman emperor Constantin re-founded this city in 330 AD, naming it by his name Constantinople. ...

8 March 2008
07:21 GMT

"Apple Meet Army"

This is the way that an encounter between the two parties would sound from the mouth of a third person (if the US Army and Apple were two persons). But, since they're not, things tend to be a little more complicated than that, so we have to dig further into the situation and see what we can make of it.First of a...

28 December 2007
07:13 GMT

Touche! iRobot Wins $286 Million Army Contract!

iRobot announced it has been awarded the xBot contract, meaning they just got their stainless steel hands on a 286 million cash cow. This is serious stuff, as iRobot talks about an "Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract given by the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and In...

21 December 2007
05:23 GMT

US Terrorist Prison Operating Manual Leaked on Web

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp became famous for holding terrorists, Al-Qaeda members or other Talibans, usually for interrogation purposes. Because so many dangerous people are coming to the prison, a maximum security system is needed in order to be sure that nobody manages to escape or to commit suicide (don...

15 November 2007
05:59 GMT

US War Robots Targeted by Computer Viruses

OK, this sounds pretty funny but it is actually a very serious piece of news which concerns our security (not on the web, the real one). Read this: the US army is afraid that some of its war robots such as helicopters, tanks and other killing machines equipped with software technologies can be controlled by anyone wh...

8 November 2007
04:41 GMT

Sites Give Tips on How to Avoid Military Service

Not everyone likes military service, especially if it's compulsory. Sure, some people will join the army willingly, but others will firmly reject it, because they despise violence, or a drill sergeant always yelling at them or for whatever other reason you may think of. Draft-dodging is as old as the army. Thing...

1 October 2007
04:45 GMT

The Pooch of the Future: Military Robotic Dogs

There's quite a long way to go till we will have robotic wives and husbands around the house; so, for the moment, it seems that our dogs in the near future might just be … made of metal (or plastic). If not around the house, at least in the conflict areas. The four-legged dog robots are now the size of a Chihuah...

27 September 2007
06:36 GMT

Iceman Returns

Max Butler, known as Max Vision or as Iceman, is a dangerous cyber-criminal that had already been convicted for hacking into the US military's servers, but now, he has been accused of mass identity theft and could face 40 years in jail and paying a huge fine, if he is found guilty.He was indicted by a federal co...

12 September 2007
03:07 GMT

Military to Request YouTube Clip Removal

Following the recent videos published on YouTube showing Philippine extremists linked to al-Qaida, the local authorities decided to get involved and is now looking to collaborate with the Mountain View company to delete the clips. If you didn't know, several videos showing terrorists training camps and several l...

23 August 2007
09:55 GMT

China Brings War Movie Clips on Mobile Phones

Chinese mobile phone users will be able to view on their handsets a large number of military-themed video clips and information. The initiative comes as part of the celebration of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.The army has always been considered as one of the most respected institutions in all cou...

1 August 2007
06:15 GMT

SHADOW, the Army's 4X4 Hybrid Stealth Vehicle

The Shadow Reconnaissance, Surveillance Targeting Vehicle (RST-V) is a prototype vehicle developed by General Dynamics Land Systems for the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).It looks like a heavily modified Hu...

28 July 2007
05:19 GMT

How Will the Next-Generation Laser-Based Defense Systems Fit on a Penny?

The terrorist attacks have made the whole world see the real threat of international terrorism in a different light. Researchers from many countries have concentrated their efforts on the development of methods and special equipment with which it will be possible to detect explosive objects in advance. Such devices ...

25 July 2007
10:16 GMT

US Army Develops Automatic Translators for Iraq Soldiers

Language differences are the most important obstacle for an efficient communication, and especially crucial for soldiers fighting in foreign countries. That's why one of the US Army' newest projects is currently searching for real-time, two-way translation systems.Unlike the sci-fi series Star Trek, where ...

24 July 2007
08:16 GMT

How to Find out if Your Woman Is Cheating on You and Where She Is at that Time

The spy panties may sound like something out of a bad spy movie, but it's actually as real as they come. You can now track your girlfriend/wife wherever she goes and even know if she's cheating on you, without her knowing about it.If you're the jealous type, or just paranoid, you can keep track of you...

3 July 2007
10:39 GMT

US Army Is Testing Weapons in University

The US Army has just started a new weapons testing program at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Fortunately, they didn't give guns to students, instead they used the Highly Accelerated Life Testing chamber in a new laboratory.This testing chamber is going to be used by the university to assist the milit...

3 July 2007
03:34 GMT

US Army Is Developing a New High-caliber Cannon System

Sandia National Laboratories in California are engaged in the development of a new high-caliber self-propelled and lightweight canon system, for the US Army. It's the most advanced program for designing a state-of-the-art canon. Currently, the US Army uses more than twenty types of self-propelled canons and mos...

22 June 2007
03:38 GMT

Army Doubles the Suicide Probability

If war does not kill them, veterans will kill themselves anyway. A recent research at Portland State University and Oregon Health & Science University has shown that male veterans present a double likelihood of committing suicide as compared to their civilian counterparts. "We clearly demonstrated that independent of...

12 June 2007
09:16 GMT

US Soldiers Banned On YouTube

The US soldiers are now banned on YouTube after the Department of Defense decided to block the access on numerous online website including Google's video sharing service. Besides YouTube, the troops are banned on MySpace, MTV, Hi5, Pandora and some other Internet websites. Although the official refused to sustai...

14 May 2007
09:36 GMT

US Army Wants New Nanoscale Materials Developed Using Ionic Liquids

Virginia Tech, Pennsylvania State University, and Drexel University were awarded a potentially $7.5 million Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI) grant by the Army Research Office to develop electromechanical devices and high-performance membranes using ionic liquids. An ionic liquid is a liquid that contains...

25 April 2007
09:36 GMT

Installing an America's Army Dedicated Server

America's Army is a tactical multiplayer first-person shooter owned by the U.S. Government and released as a global public relations initiative to help with U.S. Army recruitment. Its popularity increased due to the cross-platform availability and cost (it's free). Basically, you can run the server as well ...

13 April 2007
09:39 GMT

Pollen to Detect the Origins of the Terracotta Army

Since their discovery in 1974 in Shaanxi province, the ancient Chinese terracotta army posed a puzzle: Ancient pollen could lead scientists to the kilns where the figures in China's terracotta army were made. The 2,200-year-old clay army made of 8,099 soldiers, 300 horses and 200 chariots guards the tomb of Qin ...

27 March 2007
09:36 GMT

U.S. vs. Iraqi Insurgents on YouTube

YouTube now displays a new set of videos published by the US military authorities that are now trying to show people the way the army fights in Iraq against insurgents and al-Qaida members. WGAL reported that Mark Fox, US military spokesman, sustained the army is now posting several videos on the online video sharing...

26 March 2007
09:37 GMT


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