Never mind the cheesy production values, all too typical for US military media.

Larfs.

Interesting primarily for the metaphor bleed (excuse me: "exaptation") from the NFL to the conduct of warfare.

Read this *now*. Incredible reporting from Afghanistan's Korengal Valley: a US Army company is tasked with the unreasonable, verging on the obscenely irresponsible.

Humanity must have a death wish, is all I'm going to say about this.

And so it begins. Sigh.

My plans for total supervillainy require acquisition of same.

Canvas *wrappings*? What is this, "Ivan Denisovich"?

The original source of the "Observe, orient, decide, act" (OODA) loop, and a whole lot mo' besides

How many different "Web2.0" tropes can the Times pack into one piece? The wisdom of crowds, the power of data visualization, open source collaboration, it's all in here...

I stopped a guy on the street today to ask him where he had picked up his outstanding Swedish-pattern parka, and he said...

RAND's, um, insights

Love that big honkin' Ford logo...

Everything you always wanted to know about military custom but did not know who to ask