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Physicist: I Can Predict Insurgent Attacks, Thanks to The ‘Red Queen’

Modern warfare is a messy, erratic, complicated business, defined by the unpredictability of the next insurgent or terrorist attack. But apparently, all that chaotic violence is nothing a physicist...

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A Decade Later, Pentagon Wants to Study Muslim World’s Nuances

Entire libraries’ worth of books and studies have been published since 9/11 exploring what allows terrorist groups to take root in Muslim communities. Evidently, the Pentagon feels it’s no closer to...

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Tongue-Tied Troops Can Dial a Translator for War-Zone Chats

The military's tried nearly everything to get its troops to speak Arabic, Pashto and Dari -- with no luck. Lockheed Martin's answer: a Dial-a-Translator system -- a "bank of interpreters" that the...

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New Mission for Military’s ‘Human Terrain’ Experts: Interrogation

Updated October 20 10:55 am For the past five years, a military cadre has been pushing the Pentagon to make greater use of social scientists and other cultural experts. The idea is to understand a...

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Defense Whiz to Pentagon: Your Predictions Are Destined to Fail

The Arab Spring. The Fall of the Soviet Union. India’s nukes. The U.S. government has a perfectly awful track record of predicting future events. And there’s a good reason why, says the chairman of an...

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Hey Loser, You Can’t Hide From Darpa’s ‘Social Interaction’ Sensors

Are you a loner? Don't get along with others? Do you shout when you should be listening? Or stand off in a corner when you should be friendly? You may think nobody is noticing your anti-social...

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Good Morning, Afghanistan! Military Wants Kandahar Radio

The Afghans must not have gotten the message about how awesome the war is going. To make sure they do, the U.S. military is contracting out for a Pashto-language radio station, housed at the sprawling...

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Rogue Cop Threatens Shaky U.S.-Afghan Alliance

The plan was to raise a squad of cops to guard this town on the Pakistan border. But an officer-gone-rogue had other ideas. David Axe reports from Afghanistan.

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Que Curioso! U.S. Army Cultural Advisers Now Eyeing Mexico

Back in 2006, the U.S. Army began a controversial program to send cultural specialists to unfamiliar warzones. Now the Human Terrain System is investigating the idea of sending social scientists to a...

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War Study: Troops Had Bad Intel, Worse Spin

Ten years of war have given the U.S. military more than its share of frustrations. According to an internal Pentagon study, two of them were as fundamental as they were related: Troops had terrible...

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