Military

In my first article highlighting veterans and their transition to business and entrepreneurship, one theme rose above the others — resilience. Whether launching a new business, facing the dangers of war, or battling the difficulty of re-finding themselves after their time in the military — there is no doubt that…

The Guardian ran a story today where the US Air Force denies that it simulated an AI powered drone that killed its operator when the operator stopped it from completing its mission. If this scenario sounds familiar, that’s because it’s from Arthur C. Clarke’s 1968 hit novel 2001: A Space…

A short-short story — Both of my helicopter’s engines died and I crashed on a snow-covered forested mountaintop over Bhutan. The chopper burned but miraculously, I escaped unharmed but with no food and water, and it was freezing, and I was in the middle of a blizzard. I looked down in all directions and…

US military drone controlled by AI killed its operator during simulated test | The Guardian In a simulated test staged by the US military, an air force drone controlled by AI killed its operator to prevent it from interfering with its efforts to achieve its mission, an official said last month. AI used “highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal” in the simulated test, said…

The proceedings of the Royal Aeronautical Society Future Combat Air & Space Capabilities summit are not on my regular reading list (though they perhaps will be from now on). …

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Associated Press, ²Al Jazeera, ³Haaretz and ⁴Middle East Monitor. On Friday, Israeli and Palestinian authorities reported that a three-year-old Palestinian boy is in critical condition after being hit by Israeli fire in the West Bank on Thursday. ¹ …

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹BBC News, ²Al Jazeera, ³The National, ⁴The Times of Israel, ⁵Reuters, and ⁶Guardian. A Lebanese military court charged five men on Friday for the killing of Séan Rooney, a 24-year-old Irish soldier deployed last year with the UN…

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Ukrinform, ²US News & World Report, ³CNBC (a) and ⁴CNBC (b). Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelenskyy reissued calls for his country’s membership of the NATO military alliance on Thursday, telling leaders at a European summit in Moldova: ‘Our future…

There’s not enough cheese in the world to make this annual bitchfest worthwhile — In late May, I can hear the rumble begin anew. “Why does the entire LGBT community get an entire month, but the military only gets a day?” Um, my dude, Google is free, but since you’re not interested in doing anything but regurgitating the verbal vomit from your chosen talking…