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Most of this "e-bomb" development is taking place at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M. The Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland has been studying how to deliver varying but predictable electrical pulses to inflict increasing levels of harm: to deny, degrade, damage or destroy, to use the Pentagon's parlance. HPM engineers call it "dial-a-hurt." But that hurt can cause unintended problems: beyond taking out a tyrant's silicon chips, HPMs could destroy nearby heart pacemakers and other life-critical electrical systems in hospitals or aboard aircraft (that's why the U.S. military is putting them...
...living rooms across the base and in the towns surrounding it, tonight is all about packing--the canteens, the flak vest, the gas mask, the extra socks. "I have about 18 pair with me," Beets says, because "you can't put a price on comfort." On the closet door hang his desert tan fatigues, sharp with new creases. Members of Beets' unit, Charlie Company of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, got word today that they should switch from their standard Army green camis to tan, intended to make infantrymen like Beets invisible in the sand, except for the blindingly...
...requires its soldiers to bring with them is not the end of what is necessary. Weber still has grateful memories of the Army wife who told him to pack clothespins when he first deployed to the gulf, lest the wind toss his drying uniform in the sand. At the base PX and Wal-Mart, extra tent pegs and shower shoes are selling fast. So are watches with alarms that give the time in two time zones. Twizzlers. Extra thick boot insoles. Liquid laundry soap, because the water will be cold. Extra thermals, because the nights will be too. "Think...
...base, the task of emotional preparedness falls to the social workers and the wives who lead the family-readiness groups attached to every company. They explain how to get car-insurance rates lowered without dropping the deployed spouse from the policy. They've arranged for the local department of motor vehicles to offer driving tests in the many languages of Army wives, like Korean. They instruct families about what not to stick in the care packages they send over: any overtly religious books or objects likely to give offense to Kuwaiti Muslims, any pork products, any magazine with revealing pictures...
...protect the tiny emirate from regional powers, especially Iraq and Iran. Thus Qatar is second only to Kuwait in its willingness to let the U.S. use its territory as a launchpad for war. It has agreed to let the U.S. use its al-Udeid facility as a U.S. air base and command and control center...