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The idea wasn't to make a vaguely-menacing, sometimes-silly testament to the Pentagon's far-reaching spy powers; quite the opposite. This Defense Intelligence Agency promotional video was supposed to be a way for the group to explain to the rest of the military-industrial complex "who we are an...

In late January, the Air Force's defense contractor buddies started pushing their pet project, the Raptor stealth fighter jet, as a jobs program. "Without it, more than 95,000 jobs are at risk," proclaimed one online ad. (The New America Foundation figures the real number is more like 35,0...

The Pentagon has already built remote-controlled surgeons. It's working to develop medical evacuation robots and unmanned ambulances. So it's only logical that the next step for military researchers is to develop a 'bot that'll help a patient, once he's been treated by the other medical machines. Th...

Frankie Sturm is communications director at the Truman National Security Project and a freelance journalist. This is his first post for Danger Room. President Obama may be sending 17,000 more troops for Afghanistan. But no credible observer thinks the country is going to be stabilized just through m...

Yesterday, I spoke to the Phoenix Challenge, the information operations symposium put on by the Defense Department. Most of the conference was highly classified. I had to surrender my BlackBerry before I was escorted in. And when my session was through, I was promptly escorted out. But just because ...

For nearly a year, U.S. military leaders in Afghanistan have openly begged for extra boots on the ground. Now, President Obama is going ahead with it: "a Marine Expeditionary Brigade later this spring and an Army Stryker Brigade and the enabling forces necessary to support them later this summe...

Damn. And I was all ready to start dodging bullets, too. Then IBM had to go and withdraw its patent for bionic, ammo-avoiding body armor, just days after it came to light. IBM had put together a two-part patent that would spot incoming sniper fire, and then trigger "muscle stimulators," wh...

Imagine you're on a mission for the military in Iraq and Afghanistan. The job is dangerous. The hours are long. And suddenly, you find out that your pay is about to be cut by sixty percent or more. That's the situation facing interpreters, researchers and  managers, deployed overseas as part of...

In certain corners of the military, there's some grumbling, about how impossibly hard the Air Force's nuclear handling tests have become. Major General Don Alston, the Air Force's new man at the Pentagon overseeing all things atomic, has a message for the grumblers: Suck it up. These are weapons tha...