U.S. military’s next war with be fought with futuristic weapons
(NationalSecurity.news) Should the United States have to fight another major conflict with a great power in the near future, some of the weapons the Pentagon will field are the stuff of science fiction. Or, rather, they used to be. As noted by the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, some of those weapons will include laser platforms on Read More
The Pentagon’s next-gen ground force: The cyborg-soldier
(NationalSecurity.news) The Pentagon’s secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is currently hard at work building the next generation of ground forces: so-called cyborg soldiers. As reported by Newsweek, the agency is attempting to develop an implantable chip that would essentially transform soldiers into cyborgs by wiring their brains direction to computers. DARPA officials claim Read More
DARPA implanting computer chips in soldiers’ brains
Melding artificial silicon with breathing tissue is no longer fantasy peddled by science fiction writers. That is at least what New York Times best-selling author and journalist Annie Jacobsen reports. In her new book, The Pentagon’s Brain, Jacobsen argues that DARPA has been secretly implanting computer chips into soldiers’ brains in order to treat trauma Read More
