Secret Israeli Weapon Can Fix Mideast – Council on Foreign Relations

Posted by Matt in November 3rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Israel, Adulthood, Clusters, Council On Foreign Relations, Disrupter, Elite Unit, Elite Units, Famous Names, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Innovation, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Draft, Michael Porter, Military Draft, Secret Weapon

Yet the secret weapon of Israeli innovation is the Israeli military. The Israeli draft doesn’t merely ask male soldiers to serve for three years and women for two years; they serve for much of their adulthood, returning each year. This sounds like a career disrupter. But the Israel Defense Forces’ elite units end up functioning [...]

Avoiding the Unthinkable: Missile Defense is Israel’s “Secret” Weapon Against Iran’s Nuclear Weapons

Posted by Matt in September 27th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Israel, Barry Rubin, Client Groups, Diplomatic Efforts, Dome System, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Hizballah, Interceptor Missiles, Iron Dome, Islamist, Medium Range, Missile Defense Program, Nuclear Installation, Nuclear Weapons, Retaliation, Rocket Attacks, Secret Weapon, Sling, Uzi, Warheads

By Barry Rubin
Remember the name Uzi Rubin because he might emerge as the most important individual in the issue of Iran’s nuclear weapons drive. Rubin is the former head of Israel’s missile defense program and now a defense consultant. He has developed the best alternative (or supplement) to blocking the dangers of a radical Islamist, [...]

CIA and Pentagon Deploy RFID “Death Chips.” Coming Soon to a Product Near You!

Posted by Matt in July 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military Tech, Beacons, Bob Woodward, Chips, Cia, Deploy, Deployment, Drone, Fabric, iraq, Open Literature, Pakistan, Pentagon, Reflectors, Rfid, Rfid Tags, Secret Terror, Secret Weapon, Slew, Strikes, tags, tracking, Urban Myth, Woven Fabric

It is hardly surprising then, that the Pentagon and the CIA have spent “hundreds of millions of dollars researching, developing, and purchasing a slew of ‘Tagging tracking and locating’ (TTL) gear,” Wired reports.
Long regarded as an urban myth, the military’s deployment of juiced-up RFID technology along the AfPak border in the form of “tiny homing [...]