Ash Carter: Anti-IED tech from Israel saved American soldiers’ lives

Ash Carter: Anti-IED tech from Israel saved American soldiers’ lives

Special to WorldTribune.com Israel “is as good as us in some areas” of military technology and its innovations have saved American soldiers’ lives, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said. In an interview with The Atlantic published on Nov. 3, Carter used Israel’s technology in dealing with IEDs (improvised explosive devices) as an example. IEDs killed […]

Bahrain upgrades security against growing IED threat

Bahrain upgrades security against growing IED threat

Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Bahrain, faced with repeated Shi’ite bombings, has reported a security upgrade. Officials said the Gulf Cooperation Council kingdom introduced measures and equipment to enhance security. The officials said Bahrain’s security forces were confronting a growing threat of improvised explosive devices. “The materials used to manufacture homemade bombs are easily […]

Re-thinking war-fighting doctrines after the failure of ‘overwhelming wealth’

Re-thinking war-fighting doctrines after the failure of ‘overwhelming wealth’

Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory Copley, Global Information System Most strategic allies of the United States are waking up after the long Cold War and post-Cold War party with the realization that their efforts to integrate their military doctrine with that of the U.S. have led them to evolve force structures which require enormous capital investment […]