FORT JOHNSON, La. — It seemed like a long shot: soldiers using small drones with MacGyvered tech that cost less than $100 to serve as decoys to divert the attention of a highly capable enemy.
During a recent area defense operation, an Army unit had two possible paths it needed to take. With the opposition force closely following, the unit deployed around 50 decoys — commercial raspberry pi’s available for hobbyists on Amazon with SSID cards.
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The U.S. Army is apparently allowing, even enabling, facial recognition of all elite U.S. Army Ranger trainees during initial Ranger training.
There are over 200 videos of different classes of Ranger trainees on this channel. The cameraman is obviously given access by U.S. Army personnel.
This is unacceptable. These soldiers are caught unaware and do not understand what is happening, and being allowed to happen, by U.S. Army leadership.
All America’s enemies have to do is comb through the videos, harvest biometric data, and target their families via social media.
It’s no secret the milspouse space is dominated by women. With male spouses making up less than 10% of the demographic, you can see how exclusion is the norm. That number goes down significantly when talking about males who are not veterans. Now, that is not to say that the ladies all do it on purpose. Some of them do, but many do it completely by accident. Hopefully, this short list makes a difference in some way to clear the air.
Chris, Melanie, and Zack debate whether national security has been defined too loosely.
AeroVironment has won a five-year-long contract to provide Switchblade loitering munitions to the US Army.
A 120mm mortar solution is being development for potential use by the British Army, which is looking at possible future mobile fires options.
Brent M. Eastwood, NSJ
DDG(X): Naysayers May Win the Debate Over U.S.
Thomas Kafka, RealClearDefense
Time marches on, and those who can take advantage of generational changes stand to benefit, while those who remain stuck in the past will soon find themselves…
Lee Ferran, BrDefense
WASHINGTON — As hard as the military services have been working for years towards the Pentagon’s dream of an all-seeing, all-connected battle network, inside the…
Thom Hawkins, MWI
If you could invite anyone to a dinner party, alive or dead, who would it be? Ghandi? Albert Einstein? Dorothy Parker?