Radios, gunfire, explosions, and live voices all combine during combat to create extreme auditory overload for military personnel, but defense researchers think they may have a solution – the humble text message. The use of text messages to improve command and control operations was explored recently by a team of researchers at Defence Research and […]
From the Trojan Horse to D-Day, deception has frequently played a vital role in wartime. Now, with an eye on the future and the increasing military use of drones and other robotic devices, the Navy is funding the development of robots that use the deceptive behavioral patterns of animals to mislead and disinform the enemy. […]
A new study in the journal Conservation Biology shows that more than 80 percent of the world’s major armed conflicts from 1950-2000 occurred in regions identified as the most biologically diverse and threatened places on Earth. The study compared major conflict zones with the Earth’s 34 biodiversity hotspots identified by Conservation International (CI). The hotspots […]
