A former US military intelligence official released a letter on Monday that explained to his colleagues at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) that his November resignation was in fact due to “moral injury” stemming from US support for Israel’s war in Gaza and the harm caused to Palestinians.
Harrison Mann, an army major, would be the first known DIA official to quit over US support to Israel.
Man said he felt shame and guilt for helping advance US policy that he said contributed to the mass killing of Palestinians.
“At some point, whatever the justification, you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not,” Mann wrote.
"As the descendant of European #jews I was raised in a particularly unforgiving moral environment when it came to the topic of bearing responsibility for ethnic cleansing," wrote Maj. Harrison Mann.
Any #infosec folks recommend the best #cyber contractor hiring in vicinity of Ft. Eisenhower? (Ft. Gordon). A friend is looking for an established contractor with good benefits hiring people at GS-13 equivalent level to staff CYBERCOM, TRADOC or other major commands. #USArmy
After decades of secrecy, the "Ghost Army" is honored for saving U.S. lives in World War II.
@NPR reports the unit "used inflatable tanks, phony uniforms, fake rumors and special effects to deceive German forces during World War II, diverting attention from larger units."
"More than 100 music acts and individual musicians dropped out of the popular South by Southwest (SXSW) arts festival this year in Austin, Texas to protest the event’s sponsorship by the US Army and major defense contractors."
The U.S. Army is slashing thousands of posts in major revamp to prepare for future wars.
AP reports the plan will also add "about 7,500 troops in other critical missions, including air-defense and counter-drone units and five new task forces around the world with enhanced cyber, intelligence and long-range strike capabilities."
3 #USArmy troops were killed & 25 service members were injured in a #drone attack overnight on a small #UnitedStates outpost in #Jordan, US ofcls told CNN, marking the first time US troops have been killed by enemy fire in the #MiddleEast since the beginning of the #Gaza#war.
The killing of 3 Americans at Tower 22 in Jordan near the border w/ Syria is a significant escalation of an already-precarious situation….
“Our military is not an equal opportunity employer. We’re looking for the best of the best to do whatever. We’re not looking for different groups, social justice groups. We don’t want to single-handedly destroy our military from within,” --T. Tuberville
From the 17th Century through the 1950s American white supremacy depended on the explicit violent control of BIPOC, hence racially segregated armed forces. Naturally they weren't going to supply the internal enemy with access to advanced weaponry and military training.
After WWII more prescient capitalists like Truman understood that the stability of their exploitative regime depended on moving to more subtle, less visible means of control, which included racial integration. The revolutionary activities of BIPOC veterans after WWII suggests the old time supremacists weren't wrong to worry.
Plausibly Tuberville is looking forward to a future more like the good old days before the war -- the civil war.
As Congress considers payments to victims of Cold War-era nuclear contamination in the St. Louis region, people who were targeted for secret government testing from that same time period believe they’re due compensation, too.
#WestPoint#USArmy Flooding updates from the US Military Academy at West Point: "For updated West Point weather related impact and post access, please check in with the West Point Garrison and Community Facebook page, download the LiveSafe app, or contact the number listed below!
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#US#USArmy#AI#GenerativeAI#LLMs#Chatbots: "Large-language models, LLMs for short, are trained on huge swaths of internet data to help artificial intelligence predict and generate human-like responses to user prompts. They are what power generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.
Five of these are being put through the paces as part of a broader series of Defense Department experiments that are focused on developing data integration and digital platforms across the military. The exercises are run by the Pentagon’s digital and AI office and military top brass, with participation from US allies. The Pentagon won’t say which LLMs are in testing, though Scale AI, a San Francisco-based startup, says its new Donovan product is among the LLM platforms being tested.
The use of LLMs would represent a major shift for the military, where so little is digitized or connected. Currently, making a request for information to a specific part of the military can take several staffers hours or even days to complete, as they jump on phones or rush to make slide decks, Strohmeyer says."
Government should pay compensation for secretive Cold War-era testing, St. Louis victims say (apnews.com)
As Congress considers payments to victims of Cold War-era nuclear contamination in the St. Louis region, people who were targeted for secret government testing from that same time period believe they’re due compensation, too.
What’s in the US military’s historic lost and found: nukes, jets, and drones (www.popsci.com)
The F-35 that was recently unaccounted for is not the first jet to require a search or recovery, as have drones and even nuclear weapons.
US Army orders more Microsoft AR headsets now that they no longer make soldiers want to barf (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft’s HoloLens-like goggles aren’t giving soldiers headaches anymore.