Saturday, June 2, 2007
Michael Yon - Hit, Anbar Province, Iraq
Sunday, May 27, 2007
The World is Changing
Michael Yon - Ethical Reporting from the Front Lines
More Links on Afghanistan
Backlash loosens al-Qaeda's hold on Pakistan's border
IED and bomb detection
Several People have shown a great interest in this area so I have compiled the best resources I could find. I hope I can find more LOW TECH methods and will include same ASAP. If you have any ideas please send them to me. Low Tech Detection Methods Silly String used to detect trip wires? Cool idea!!! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16079446/ R2087 Canine IED Detection and Human Scent Tracking Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office (CTTSO) BAA 05-Q-4782 https://www.bids.tswg.gov/TSWG/bids.nsf/0/562CDFAECB3EEAFE85257291004AF313/$F... The Office of the Vice President for Research Virginia Tech http://www.research.vt.edu/funding/ou/prev/ou031805.html (Looks like I wasn’t the only one to think about use of dogs!!! Dogs have 1,000 times greater smell then humans. When humans smell chicken soup we smell soup, when a dog smells chicken soup they smell every ingredient even the spices each individual one! We kill dogs every day by the thousands in shelters. We could determine which are best to detect bombs, deploying them to theaters of operation, training them, and implement a useful tool into our arsenal.)
High Tech and Low Tech Special Operations Technology http://www.special-operations-technology.com/article.cfm?DocID=1129 Methods for IED reconnaissance and detection Armor, Sept-Oct, 2004 by Christopher J. Shepherd This is an interesting document but needs to be updated to include more methods of detection, and safer methods. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PAB/is_5_113/ai_n6355286 Xytrans is actively engaged in developing innovative solutions for IED Detection. Xytrans has leveraged our proven strengths in passive and active MMW sensor development and detection techniques, originally designed for the military, to provide innovative solutions to this very challenging problem. http://www.xytrans.com/6-market-ied.html Washington Post - Fighting Roadside Bombs: Low-Tech, High-Tech, Toy Box http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/28/AR2006072801462_2.html Overview My research has shown that most detection programs are focusing on High tech Solutions that take longer to create and implement. We should are learn to be resourceful and create low tech solutions that are easy and fast to implement. I will continue to try and find as many low tech methods and I will update this issue soon. Ian Bach Update: 3-24-07 I am working to contact the silly sting lady and have her work on sending remote control 4 WD cars also!! A fun way to take out a IED. These won’t be too effective but may work to attract an insurgents attention thinking it may be more then a remote car? Also these range in price form $10-$50 for a decent 4WD vehicle. Attaching items to make them even more useful should be easy. In other cases of battlefield improvisation in Iraq, U.S. soldiers have bolted scrap metal to Humvees in what has come to be known as "Hillbilly Armor." Medics use tampons to plug bullet holes in the wounded until they can be patched up.
Roger Trinquier - A French View of Counterinsurgency
Ahmed Shah Massoud the "Lion of Panjshir"
Read in depth information about the man known as the "Lion of Panjshir" Ahmed Shah Massoud the Afghanistan Leader of the Northern Alliance who fought the Taliban and warned the USA and European Countries about the Taliban and the potential for attacks on western soil of a "unussualy devistating nature" [yet even massoud with his interogation of captured Al Qaeda and Taliban, was able to know what kind of attack or when] on the USA and its allies by the Taliban. Mr. Massoud fought off the USSR during the cold war [approx.1978-1987] and helped bring down the Soviet Government.
http://www.ianbach.com/ahmed-shah-massoud/
France asked after Mr. Massoud's death that he be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but this came under much critisism. Many cited rapes by his soldiers and other problems that he was unable to contorl. Mr. Massoud has in several interviews talked about these problems and had admited that there was problems that he could not contorl. Mr. Massoud also was briefly allied [1996] with the Taliban, but when he came to see what they stood for he stood up against them until they killed him 2 days before 911.
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