The Democratic Creation of the Field Jacket
https://combatthreads.substack.com/p/the-democratic-creation-of-the-field
The official history of the field jacket, produced by the US Army, was titled Designed For Combat. There could be no truer statement. This garment and the idea that soldiers should wear uniforms explicitly and solely designed for fighting may both seem mundane and common sense to us. But, during World War II, it was a revolutionary approach to the design of military clothing.
Mayor, er, King Bloomberg announces that NYPD is his Army - Boing Boing
http://boingboing.net/2011/11/30/mayor-er-king-bloomberg-anno.html
"I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world."—New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
WIRED Blogs: Danger Room
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/03/how_to_break_a_.html
"By taking out three spanners, Graham showed how you could isolate relatively homogeneous chunks of the network, rendering it stupider and less adaptive than before."
Army Warns Rumsfeld It's Billions Short - Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-military25sep25,0,5555967.story
"It's kind of like the old rancher saying: 'I'm going to size the herd to the amount of hay that I have"