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...Department of Defense (DOD) also tracks humans with RFID. For the first time in a war zone, the Navy's Fleet Hospital 3 kept tabs on wounded soldiers, civilians and POWS at its 116-bed facility in the Iraqi desert by using wristbands with RFID chips. By scanning the wristbands, medical personnel could access treatment and track patients in a central database. "In Iraq the real challenge was tracking noncombatants, but ultimately we hope every soldier will have an RFID tag," says Lisa Mantock, president of Texas-based ScenPro, which developed the software. Using similar technology, Calipatria State Prison...
Sources: Washington Post; U.S. Agency for International Development; Department of Defense Inspector General; DOD...
...like the current situation in Iraq. Rumsfeld was barely coherent in his response, talking about "five different things that are going on that are functioning more like terrorists." (Guerrilla insurgencies, of course, are typically labeled "terrorist," although it should also be noted in Rumsfeld's defense that the DOD definition of guerrilla warfare is not exactly precise...
...military mission in parts of Iraq looks set to increasingly combine reconstruction with counterinsurgency, which according to the DOD's dictionary describes "those military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological, and civic actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency." And textbook counterinsurgency prioritizes the political and administrative aspects over combat - the insurgency depends on the support or, at least, consent of the local population; the authorities work to isolate and destroy the insurgents by winning the loyalty of the local population through providing good governance and protection from intimidation. The U.S. hopes to get help from allies, hoping to recruit...
What makes the situation all the more tragic is that scholars had warned the Department of Defense (DOD) in January that something like this might happen. The organized looting of ancient artifacts has been rampant in Iraq ever since U.N. sanctions choked off the country's legal streams of revenue following the 1991 Gulf War. "We wanted to make them aware of the importance of Mesopotamia and familiarize them with important sites," says McGuire Gibson, an archaeologist at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, who participated in the talks. He says he gave DOD officials a list of critical...