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The Democratic Creation of the Field Jacket

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:24:48 +0000

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.

Tags: #army #clothing #military #usa

Mayor, er, King Bloomberg announces that NYPD is his Army - Boing Boing

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:26:31 +0000

"I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world."—New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Tags: #army #bloomberg #occupy #ows #police #scary

WIRED Blogs: Danger Room

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:00:06 +0000

"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."

Tags: #army #intelligence #networks #terror

Army Warns Rumsfeld It's Billions Short - Los Angeles Times

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:50:57 +0000

"It's kind of like the old rancher saying: 'I'm going to size the herd to the amount of hay that I have"

Tags: #army #economy #iraq #rumsfeld #war