Defensetech blog's Noah Shachtman headed to Iraq

Noah says, "I've spent a big chunk of the last four years writing about how technology is changing the way battles are fought. Now it's time for me to witness those changes close-up – and see how war still remains brutally, awfully the same. I'm leaving for Iraq on Saturday morning, on assignment for Wired magazine." Link

See also this interesting item on his Defensetech blog today:

London: Panopticon Cracks

Londoners are seen on the city's vast amalgam of surveillance cameras an average of 300 times a day. Which means that the terrorists behind yesterday's bombings almost certainly knew they'd be caught on tape — and went ahead with their attacks anyway.

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