Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘battle-damage assessment’

Collateral damage is rapidly becoming extinct

June 5, 2016

In military terminology, collateral damage is the deaths of civilians and the destruction of non-military objects. Customary International Humanitarian Law (IHL) allows for the killing of civilians. Rule 14. Proportionality in Attack Launching an attack which may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a…

 

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Analyses by idiots make everything worse

April 16, 2016

Every day I read analyses that are so off base that they make me want to dive through my computer and choke somebody’s turkey neck until he gobbles, to quote novelist Joseph Wambaugh. Almost everything being published is wrong. The problem is caused by the notion that there’s no such thing as objective truth. Social…

 

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Explosive force can be directed and used to defeat bombs

March 7, 2016

The videos coming out of Syria show new weapons. Through battle-damage assessment (BDA), I can determine what a munition is doing. Then I go looking for patents. First I found a patent for ordnance that combines fuel-air explosive (FAE) with a warhead that creates nonnuclear electromagnetic pulses (EMPs). Now I’ve located the patent for directing…

 

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