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Aug 12 2009

Book Review: Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

Published by Vlad Jecan under Book Reviews

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When the book is about robotics and advanced military technology, the reader might expect a more technical writing style – the author offering the full list of specs without too much thought on the art of writing. This is certainly not the case for Wired for War. P. W. Singer actually tells the fascinating story of unmanned machines, their evolution from the time when Nikola Testla demonstrated at the Madison Square Garden that he can control a boat by using radio frequencies to the unmanned vehicle remotely steered using a PlayStation-like controller.

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Aug 04 2009

Book Review: The Occupation: War and resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn

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Patrick Cockburn is a journalist and a veteran war correspondent. He began his carrier as a Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times and the Independent in 1979 and he concentrated on Iraq ever since.

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