By joneilortiz on September 10, 2009
Amid growing international concern over the India-Israel arms trade, the Israeli firm Rafael unveiled the below marketing video — described by Stephen Trimble of The Dew Line as a “catastrophic collision of Bollywood and the arms industry” – at the Aero India 2009 defense convention in Bangalore. In the months since its posting, the video has become the [...]
Posted in Film | Tagged Advertising, military |
By joneilortiz on January 16, 2009
On the subject of the development of the screen and interface, Virilio notes the strange, historical moment, now difficult to appreciate, when “the surprise effect came from the sudden appearance of pictures and signs on a monitor”, rather than from some kind of direct perception (War and Cinema 72). It is, then, only natural that [...]
Posted in Film | Tagged milieu, military |
By joneilortiz on December 15, 2008
If there was ever any doubt as to the nature of the relation between HTS units and counter-insurgency operations, last week’s leaking of the Human Terrain System manual has firmly settled the question:
“HTTs will use the Map-HT Toolkit of developmental hardware and software to capture, consolidate, tag, and ingest human terrain data. HTTs use this [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged HTS, iraq, military |
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