Some Military Humor

Saturday, 24 January 2015


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The Pentagon Will Not Admit That They Have Killed Civilians In Their War Against The Islamic State





Nancy A. Youssef, Daily Beast: U.S. Won’t Admit to Killing a Single Civilian in the ISIS War



Civilian deaths, a keystone metric of the last war in Iraq, has now become the statistic no one wants to talk about.



WNU Editor: A few days ago I posted links on reports from U.S. officials that the U.S. air campaign has killed 6,000 Islamic fighters and half of their leadership .... U.S. Ambassador to Iraq: U.S. Led Air Strikes Has Killed 6,000 Islamic State Fighters. As regular readers to this blog pointed out .... such stats are hard to believe ... and they are right. Nancy A. Youssef's analysis is also correct .... and she is also right that we will probably never know the true number.

The Pentagon Wants Future Drones To Hunt Like Wolf Packs


The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency released this artist’s rendering to help explain what its Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program could do. (DARPA image)



Washington Post: Pentagon agency wants drones to hunt in packs, like wolves



WNU Editor: Welcome to the future of warfare .... robots working independently and in concert with each other (so they do not shoot at each other) .... saturating a conflict zone with their presence and with their firepower. What needs to now be done is yo make this a reality .... and here is the tough part for the Pentagon .... to trust them that they can work on their own.



More News On The Pentagon Wanting Future Drones To Hunt Like Wolf Packs



The Drones of the Future Will Work in Flocks -- Popular Mechanics

Pentagon issues call for drones that hunt like a pack of wolves -- Defense Systems

The US Military Is Building Gangs of Autonomous Flying War Bots -- Defense One

DARPA looks to give military drones more of a mind of their own -- Washington Business Journal

Lungu wins Zambia presidential election with 48.3 percent of vote

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's ruling party candidate, Edgar Lungu, won the presidential election on Saturday with 48.3 percent of the vote, the Electoral Commission of Zambia said.















Volatile Libya resumes commercial flights to Europe

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Commercial flights from Libya to mainland Europe resumed after more than six months on Saturday with a Libyan carrier taking off to Germany, the airline said.















 

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