Antoine Bousquet has a fascinating post at Disorder of Things on developments in neuroscience and how they are being used by militaries to 1) enhance their own soldiers and 2) degrade the abilities of their opponents. The post is in response to a report by The Royal...
The Economist reports on advances in non-lethal weaponry, emphasizing the latest line of research into electro-magnetic weapons: BULLETS and bombs are so 20th-century. The wars of the 21st will be...
The G20 Summit is over, the protests of last Thursday and Friday have largely died down, as has the media coverage. The City of Pittsburgh reports 83 protesters arrested and nearly $50,000 of...
The Pentagon's "less-than-lethal" weaponry is finally going mainstream. Though the Active Denial System (ADS) has been under development for years, 60 Minutes has finally reported on it as if it's...