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Pentagon wants to use AI-generated ‘personalities’ for decoy cellphones
Using fake radio signals to spoof the enemy is a common stratagem.The Department of Defense wants to take that idea one step further and wield AI-generated “personalities” to mimic real people — and fool enemy AI trying to identify patterns in friendly cellphone traffic.The goal is to mask “digital exhaust,” the metadata automatically emitted by mobile phones, such as location…
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When veterans take the pen, war stories start to change
Hollywood has never lacked war stories. But it has often lacked veteran storytellers telling them.For years, military narratives on screen have gravitated toward spectacle or trauma. Either elite raids and explosions, or the aftermath: PTSD, divorce, isolation. What gets squeezed out is the middle ground — bureaucracy, boredom and dark…
How MREs inspired today’s meal-delivery industry
Long before cardboard boxes filled with frozen gel packs and prepackaged ingredients started appearing on suburban porches, the U.S. military had already solved the problem of feeding people who could not make it home for dinner.The Meal, Ready-to-Eat, better known as the MRE, was designed for war. It had to…
The military’s complicated history with tobacco
For decades, cigarettes were as common in uniform as a canteen and a helmet liner.In World War II, tobacco was not treated as a vice; it was a comfort item. Cigarettes were packed into rations as morale boosters, something that could steady nerves between missions, the Imperial War Museums note.…
Robert Duvall, ‘Apocalypse Now’ actor and Army veteran, dead at 95
LOS ANGELES — Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor of matchless versatility and dedication whose classic roles included the intrepid consigliere of the first two “Godfather” movies and the over-the-hill country music singer in “Tender Mercies,” has died at age 95.Duvall died “peacefully” at his home Sunday in Middleburg, Virginia, according…
How chocolate became one of the US military’s most important WWII rations
In the early American military, specifically the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, food, logistics, medicine and morale were inseparable. Chocolate and cocoa fit that world neatly. They were calorie-dense, easy to transport and more shelf-stable than most comforts soldiers could count on.By the middle years of the Revolutionary War,…
This Army Motor T operator is also an Olympic figure skater
Pvt. Spencer Howe aspires to be an Army chaplain someday — but for now, his day job involves wearing sequins and rhinestones and doing synchronized spin jumps on ice.The 29-year-old soldier and Olympic pairs skater currently preparing to compete in the Milan Cortina Games is the first figure skater in…