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Congressional Research Service reports typically aren’t public. But we’re embedding it here, so you can read it in full for yourself. It compiles and updates a lot of useful information about military drones: Almost 1 In 3 U.S. Warplanes Is a Robot | Danger Room | Wired.com

While many might assume the perpetrators of such assaults are closeted gay soldiers, military experts and outside researchers say assailants usually are heterosexual. Like in prisons and other predominantly male environments, male-on-male assault in the military, experts say, is motivated not by homosexuality, but power, intimidation, and domination. Assault victims, both male and female, are typically young and low-ranking; they are targeted for their vulnerability. The Military's Secret Shame - Newsweek

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The 1998 Defence Review led South Africa to conclude a multi-billion-dollar arms deal in 1999 in which it acquired a range of sophisticated weaponry – from Gripen fighters and Hawk training jets to submarines and corvettes – “inappropriate” for peacekeeping duties, Cilliers said. The idea that South Africa faced any conventional armed threats to its territorial integrity was “mythical”, he said, in either the short or medium term, and the country’s role as regional super-power should be to stabilize the region. South Africa’s defence policy since the end of apartheid in 1994 has prevented the country from taking a bigger role in African peacekeeping operations. The tone was set by the ruling ANC government’s 1996 White Paper entitled Defence in Democracy, which made the primary role of the armed forces defence against external aggression. Africa Defense Journal

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Port illégal d'uniforme et de décorations : on peut être mytho sans risques ! (actualisé-2) Le plus étonnant dans cette affaire est que, bien que connue par les autorités militaires, aucune suite judiciaire n'ait été donnée : comme si c'était une aimable plaisanterie d'un potache, comme si le port illégal d'uniforme ou de la médaille du combattant n'était pas important... Pour l'heure, l'armée de l'air - qui confirme bien que Jimmy n'a jamais été officier chez elle - ne nous a pas encore fourni d'explications sur cette attitude. L'enquête serait en cours.

Clausewitz | The Economist In Tripoli, despite the nightly attacks on the regime’s command-and-control centres, there is not much sign of the government losing its grip. The regular pro-Qaddafi demonstrations do not accurately reflect feeling within the capital, but there is no way of knowing how strong opposition to the colonel may be. A further complication for the coalition is the predictable exploitation of “human shields” (apparently, mostly volunteers) to protect high-value government targets. On March 21st an RAF Tornado aborted its mission close to Tripoli after it was warned that civilians, including some foreign journalists, were close to its target. The situation in Libya’s third-largest city, Misrata, only 130 miles east of Tripoli and with a population of more than half a million, appeared even more desperate. After more than a week of heavy fighting in which well over 100 people are said to have died, the government announced on March 21st that it was in full control of the town.

Airmen, It’s Illegal for Your Kids to Read WikiLeaks [Updated] | Danger Room | Wired.com “[I]f a family member of an Air Force employee accesses WikiLeaks on a home computer, the family member may be subject to prosecution for espionage under U.S. Code Title 18 Section 793,” the legal guidance reads. “The Air Force member would have an obligation to safeguard the information under the general guidance to safeguard classified information.” Steven Aftergood, the secrecy and intelligence guru at the Federation of the American Scientists, asked the National Archives’ Information Security Oversight Office what to make of the Air Force Materiel Command guidance. “ That has to be one of the worst policy/legal interpretations I have seen in my entire career ,” replied director William J. Bosanko.

Secret Défense: Mon opinion : du risque de dénationalisation de L'armée française se remodèle entièrement pour être otan-compatible. Il suffit de fréquenter les militaires pour constater avec quel plaisir ils emploient des termes anglais (ou plutôt américains) que le civil moyen, même journaliste de défense, a parfois du mal à comprendre. L'anglais devient la langue de travail : j'ai appris hier que l'armée de l'air comptait désormais dans les rangs de ses état-majors des Civads, Civil Advisors...

Son style, décontracté et sympathique, n'a pas toujours suscité l'adhésion des militaires, qui avait beaucoup apprécié l'allure martiale et sportive de MAM, à laquelle il avait succédé le 18 mai 2007. Hervé Morin, impopulaire mais bouc-émissaire

U.S. Military vs. Taliban Monkey Rumors | The Atlantic Wire Coe also points out that any Taliban monkey handlers would have to "bring along a large supply of bananas to keep up the morale of their monkey troops," which leads one to the obvious conclusion that the International Security Assistance Force should strictly ban bananas from Afghanistan immediately. Update: See also Taiwan Produces Pixar-Like Video of Taliban Jihad Monkeys "To my eye at least, it is a baboon, which lives in Africa," said Christopher Coe, director of the Harlow Primate Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. "The more common monkey that lives in that part of the world is a rhesus monkey.

The three-stage solid propellant engine of the M51 is derived from the Ariane 5 rocket, weighs 57 tons and has a range of 8,000km, guided by inertial and star position systems. It would be delivered in 2010 to their Triomphant class submarines and, hopefully, they will get rusty in there. Or maybe not . France Gets New Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, World Exclai

Bruxelles2 - Europe de la défense et de la sécurité Le job de la présidence tournante La plus grande innovation du Traité de Lisbonne a été de transférer les responsabilités de la présidence tournante dans le domaine de la politique extérieure. Concrètement, cela a signifié que des responsables du Service ont pris la présidence du COPS, le comité politique et de sécurité, et de 16 groupes de travail.

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Stratégie, politique, gestion de crises, industrie ou transport aérien militaire, surveillance maritime et protection civile...Missions militaires et civiles de l'UE (Bosnie-Herzégovine, Kosovo, Géorgie, Moldavie / Ukraine, Afghanistan, Irak, Palestine, Congo RDC, Guinée-Bissau, Haïti, Océan indien, Somalie, Tchad). Eufor Tchad : on ferme, on remballe - bruxelles2 Europe de la Dé

Les Tchèques pas d'accord encore sur leurs missions extérie Stratégie, politique, gestion de crises, industrie ou transport aérien militaire, surveillance maritime et protection civile...Missions militaires et civiles de l'UE (Bosnie-Herzégovine, Kosovo, Géorgie, Moldavie / Ukraine, Afghanistan, Irak, Palestine, Congo RDC, Guinée-Bissau, Haïti, Océan indien, Somalie, Tchad).

bruxelles2 Europe de la Défense - Mozilla Firefox Dans le Golfe d’Aden , les pirates commencent à reprendre le dessus avec quelques prises: le MV Suez et le MV Syrian Star relâché peu après.