Iraq spent another night in total darkness due to a cascading infrastructure failure that shut-down electricity throughout the country. It was another major tactical victory for Iraq's global ...

For an open source revolt (here's some background on "open source insurgency") to be successfully formed, it needs a plausible promise. A meta issue around which all of the different factions etc. can ...

The peacetime soldier's principal task is to prepare effectively for the next war. In order to do so, he must anticipate what the next war will be like. This is a difficult task that gets continuously ...

Hi, I’m John Robb. I spent last year working for the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff on his vision for how AGI and robotics would transform how the Joint Force fights in 2035.

37 Pakistani troops killed by guerrillas over the weekend.

My friend Nassim Taleb's rules for a more resilient financial system (published with his permission). A world in which entrepreneurs, not bankers, take the risks and companies are born and die every ...

Ben Stein in the Sunday Times trying to figure out, like I am, what the underlying trend lines are: ...from 1947 to about 1973 — from the days from the great Harry S. Truman to the great Richard M.

Note that this is an AVERAGE: The committee questioned the additional costs involved in using contractors, citing an estimate that a government civilian employee costs on average $126,500 a year, ...

Nice. Now, how long before phones use Google maps to provide in car navigation? GPS is easy to add. Perhaps the iPhone will do it. It has the screen real-estate to pull it off. That way, the iPhone ...

Royal Dutch Shell PLC is seeking buyers for 10 of its Nigerian onshore oil-production assets following years of militant attacks on its facilities that have squeezed the company's profit, people ...

XFN: Iran plans to install 3,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment by March 2007 despite international calls to freeze controversial nuclear work, the Iranian foreign ministry said Sunday.