http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net Science, Technology, and the Transformation of Military Affairs Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:30:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/19/393 http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/19/393#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:30:04 +0000 TransTracker http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/19/393 A tale of four IT programs An article in November’s Armed Forces Journal about how IT programs are being used in the conduct of counterinsurgency. Web-based/web-inspired systems making use of blogs, wikis, and forums have been most successful thus far, as have those using what could be called a user-centered design approach. tags: coin, information sharing, [...]]]> http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/19/393/feed http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/15/391 http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/15/391#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:30:05 +0000 TransTracker http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/15/391 US DoD Releases Additional F-22 Funding tags: airpower, air_force, F-22 The US Department of Defense has released funding to build an additional four F-22 Raptor fighter jets beyond the 183 already purchased. US lawmakers have called on the Pentagon to release USD140 million in advanced procurement funds that have already [...]]]> http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/15/391/feed http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/14/390 http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/14/390#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:30:05 +0000 TransTracker http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/14/390 War and PC: Cyberwarfare - Annotated tags: cyberwar The cyber attacks that hit Georgian government websites as Russian tanks rolled into South Ossetia in August may have heralded the coming of age of a new dimension of warfare. I would have expected, indeed did expect, better from Janes. This [...]]]> http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/14/390/feed http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/12/389 http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/12/389#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:30:07 +0000 TransTracker http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/12/389 Amazon.com: Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age: Tiziana Terranova: Books tags: no_tag Total Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. ]]> http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/12/389/feed http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/11/388 http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/11/388#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:30:04 +0000 TransTracker http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/11/388 DOD jumps on wiki bandwagon tags: social_media, collaboration Defense Department officials have launched a wiki as a way to improve collaboration among agency scientists, engineers, acquisition workers and military service members. DOD Techipedia is similar to online encyclopedia Wikipedia and the intelligence community’s Intellipedia, said John Young, undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics. Posted from Diigo. The [...]]]> http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/11/388/feed http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/04/387 http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/04/387#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:30:05 +0000 TransTracker http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/04/387 Undetected - Fire in the Nuke Hole - Annotated tags: nukes A fire caused $1 million worth of damage at an unmanned underground nuclear launch site last spring, but the Air Force didn’t find out about it until five days later, an Air Force official said yesterday. The revelation was the latest in a string of embarrassing missteps [...]]]> http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/04/387/feed http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/03/386 http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/03/386#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:30:05 +0000 TransTracker http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/03/386 How China Will Use Cyber Warfare To Leapfrog Foes tags: cyberwar “A lengthy article published in Culture Mandala details how China is using cyber warfare (PDF) as an asymmetric means to obtain technology transfer and market dominance. Case studies of Estonia, Georgia, and Project Chanology point towards a new auxiliary arm of traditional warfare. Political [...]]]> http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/03/386/feed http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/02/385 http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/02/385#comments Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:30:05 +0000 TransTracker http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/02/385 Scientists Use Social Media Overview of recent survey of scientists’ use of social media. tags: social_media, social_networking, science2.0, scholarship2.0 BioInformatics LLC conducted a survey in November 2007 that found some interesting trends: 77% of life scientists participate in some type of social media 50% see blogs, discussion groups, online communities, and social networking as beneficial to sharing ideas with colleagues 85% [...]]]> http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/11/02/385/feed http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/10/28/384 http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/10/28/384#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:30:06 +0000 TransTracker http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/10/28/384 Army Warns of Twitter Dangers - Annotated AFP’s take on the Army intel report about terrorist use of cell phones, GPS, and yes, Twitter. AFP cites Wired, which slightly misrepresented the contents of the Army report, playing up the Twitter aspect when most of the report was actually about cell phones and GPS. Twitter [...]]]> http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/10/28/384/feed http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/10/27/383 http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/10/27/383#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:30:48 +0000 TransTracker http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/10/27/383 Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists - Annotated tags: terrorism, intelligence, social_media Could Twitter become terrorists’ newest killer app? A draft Army intelligence report, making its way through spy circles, thinks the miniature messaging software could be used as an effective tool for coordinating militant attacks. The report is roughly divided into two halves. The first is [...]]]> http://seanlawson.rhetorical-devices.net/2008/10/27/383/feed