Jerry Holliman received Bronze Stars for his military service in Iraq and Vietnam, where he was dosed with Agent Orange. Now 69, Hollman has survived multiple cancers, but lost both his legs to complications from diabetes.
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Glossary: Chinese futurist military jargon
Via Bruce Sterling, the Chinese characters for “specific ethnic genetic attacks,” “combat brain,” “winning without fighting” and more.
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Without right to repair, the military can’t fix its own battlefield equipment
Captain Elle Ekman is a US Marine Corps logistics officer; in a New York Times op-ed, she describes how the onerous conditions imposed by manufacturers on the US armed forces mean that overseas troops are not permitted to fix their own mission-critical gear, leaving them stranded and disadvantaged.
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Notpetya: the incredible story of an escaped US cyberweapon, Russian state hackers, and Ukraine’s cyberwar
Andy Greenberg (previously) is Wired’s senior security reporter; he did amazing work covering Russian cyberwarfare in Ukraine, which he has expanded into a forthcoming book: Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers (I read it for a blurb and a review; it’s excellent).
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Information security and warfare metaphors: a toxic mix made in hell
I once found myself staying in a small hotel with a “State Department” family whose members clearly all worked for some kind of three letter agency (the family patriarch had been with USAID with the tanks rolled into Budapest) and I had some of the weirdest discussions of my life with them.
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Security researcher cracks high-security lock used for ATMs, Air Force One, military bases
At this year’s Defcon Lock Picking Village, Ioactive’s Mike Davis will present a method for cracking high-security locks made by Dormakaba Holding, a Swiss company. The locks are used in very high-stake applications, from security ATMs to Air Force One, as well as guarding classified and sensitive materials on US military bases.
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America can only go to war against Iran if it reinstates the draft
Gil Barndollar — a Marine veteran who served in Afghanistan, the Republic of Georgia, Guantanamo Bay and Bahrain, who also holds a PhD in History from Cambridge — writes in USA Today about what a US regime change effort in Iran would mean, logistically speaking.
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Leaked UK military “Extreme Right Wing” checklist: “using the term ‘Islamofascism'”, adding “-istan” to place names
The UK Ministry of Defense has confirmed the authenticity of a leaked copy of its 2017 leaflet, “Extreme Right Wing (XRW) Indicators & Warnings,” provided to senior defense staff to help them identify and root out far-right extremists in the ranks.
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Under Trump, immigrants who serve in the armed forces are finding it harder to attain citizenship than those who do not serve
Serving in the US military has long been a path to citizenship for immigrants to the USA, but after a suite of reforms instituted by the Trump regime, immigrants who serve in the US military are less likely to attain citizenship than immigrants who don’t serve.
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Elizabeth Warren calls for a zero-emissions military, serviced by zero-emissions contractors
In her latest detailed policy proposal, would-be 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Elizabeth Warren sets out a Green New Deal for the US military, whose own policy analysts have identified climate change and energy independence as serious risks to US security.
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