Deadlines Loom as Afghans Struggle to Build Air Force
Sharon Weinberger, AOL News
This is the first in a series of stories by our special correspondent about military aviation issues linked to the war in Afghanistan. Read also about female pilots in the Afghan air force and about...
WikiLeaks: No Release Date Set for Iraqi Documents
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(Oct. 19) -- The head of WikiLeaks says that the release of tens of thousands of documents related to the U.S. war in Iraq has not been delayed, insisting instead there never was a release date to...
Pentagon Hit by Gunfire, Briefly Shuts Down
Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP
(Oct. 19) -- Gunshots struck the Pentagon before dawn today, and authorities briefly shut down the massive complex and a nearby interstate as they searched for a possible source. An officer with the...
Five New Frightening Types of Cyberattacks
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(Oct. 18) -- Worried about e-mails that appear to be from your bank but could well be part of a phishing scam? That may soon be the least of your problems. With concerns about cyberattacks on the...
US Government Monitoring Social Networking Sites
Loic Venance, AFP / Getty Images
(Oct. 15) -- Think the people looking at your Facebook page just happen to share your interest in Quentin Tarantino movies? Maybe, but if you're applying for citizenship, it could be a government...
Is the Pentagon Serious About Going Green?
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(Oct. 14) -- At a lunchtime presentation this week in the Pentagon's courtyard, the director of Army energy policy spoke passionately about the military's commitment to improving energy efficiency as...
New Software May Help Military Spot Terrorists
(Oct. 12) -- The U.S. military's drones flying over Afghanistan every day vacuum up reams of data, much of it in the form of full-motion video. But trying to make sense of that video, let alone pick...
Robot Census Taker Finds a Growing Population
(Oct. 12) -- New Carnegie Mellon University graduate student Heather Knight just wanted to get to know some of the robots on campus. What she found was a population explosion. It turns out robots at...
Google Reveals Its Robot Cars Are Among Us
(Oct. 10) -- With little fanfare other than a post on Google's official blog, the search engine giant announced that it has been testing robotic cars on U.S. city streets, apparently without anybody...
Five Shocking Findings of the Afghan Contractor Probe
(Oct. 8) -- A wide-ranging review of contracts given to private security operations in Afghanistan found an egregious lack of oversight, including one case where a company paid warlords linked to the...
Senate Report: Contractors Funded Afghan Warlords
Alex Wong, Getty Images
(Oct. 7) -- The sordid tale of thugs, violent crime and greed could have been lifted from a Quentin Tarantino film. In fact, that's likely what the Western security firms operating in Afghanistan had...
Laser Weapons Move Forward, Slowly
(Oct. 6) -- As the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency prepares for another test of the Airborne Laser, a chemical laser housed on a Boeing jumbo jet, the question still looms: When will any laser...
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