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The Largest Military Agency You’ve Never Heard Of

This article originally appeared at Motherboard.

The United States has so thoroughly industrialized war that we rarely think about the clothes, food, oil and weapons necessary to fight a modern war. But, with somewhere…


The Bionic Warrior

This article originally appeared at Motherboard.

It was Aug. 15, 2012, when Jeremy Maddamma left Afghanistan on a stretcher. Maddamma, a U.S. Air Force pararescueman, was on a mission to rescue Afghan civilians after multiple suicide bombers hit Zaranj, a city on the…


The Problem With Using Metadata to Justify Drone Strikes

This article originally appeared at Motherboard.

The U.S. military maintains that its drone program delivers deadly “targeted strikes” against its enemies overseas, and yet, reports of civilians being…