Latest articles by David W. Brown
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The odyssey of OSIRIS-RExfeature Inside mankind's 1.35 billion kilometer mission to kiss an asteroid that might destroy us
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Here's the latest travesty of secrecy from the NSAopinion The NSA is refusing to release its own ethical and legal guidelines, calling them "top secret." This is alarming.
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The scientists who conquered Plutofeature The global response to New Horizons is more than a celebration of one mission; it's the celebration of science
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Believe it or not, we are living in a golden age of space explorationfeature The feat of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft should stand alongside the taming of the oceans and the first flight of the Wright Brothers
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The amazing triumph of Windows 8feature Eat your heart out, Apple: Windows 8 is a vision of computing that is not only thoroughly re-imagined, but in many ways superior to anything else out there
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The CIA's shark-jumping censorship of former agents
feature Ex-intel officials are required to submit speeches, book reviews, essays, and movie scripts to be scrubbed of classified material. And often, the censors go overboard
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You've been designated a foreign terrorist organization. Now what?
feature The U.S. officially labels members of the Haqqani network terrorists. Don't expect that to turn the tide in Afghanistan
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What Iraq's chaos tells us about Afghanistan's coming spiral of drug-fueled violence and despairfeature Afghanistan is a mess, and we're preparing to declare victory and go home. But if Iraq is any indication, we'll be back — and soon.
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Why the world is preparing for war in Mali
feature Regional volatility, imported weapons from Libya, and a poisonous religious ideology have turned the West African nation into a new Afghanistan
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How American inaction is killing Syrians
feature 45,000 Syrians are dead. And all Western leaders do is talk
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How the U.S. military's idiotic tribal mentality leaves us vulnerable to cyber catastrophefeature Our leaders could solve this problem. But they won't.
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The perks and perils of our newly indexed society
feature Paper documents have become unnecessary relics. But when everything is digital and searchable, it comes at a steep cost to your privacy
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Syria's PR campaign failed — and so did America's policy
feature Bashar al-Assad is on his last legs, but his campaign to crush the rebellion in Syria got a boost from Washington's astonishingly weak stance
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How NATO spent $200 million teaching Afghan cops to read — and failedfeature Well, Afghanistan is a burgeoning narco-criminal state that is being fueled by American blood and tax dollars, so...
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In praise of Prince Harry, soldierThe Explainer Whatever his flaws, the extraordinarily brave prince represents not only the best of England, but in many ways, the best of his generation
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10 things you didn't know about the president's secret armyfeature They're everywhere, and they're completely covert
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Inside the secret world of America's top eavesdropping spies
feature Officially, the Special Collection Service doesn't exist. Unofficially, its snoops travel the world intercepting private messages and cracking high-tech encryptions
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Why women soldiers don't belong on the front lines
feature However unfair, however much it pains us to admit it, in some areas, men and women are simply not equal
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The irresponsibly stupid and dangerous camouflage patterns of the U.S. militaryfeature You'd think the military would want uniform patterns that keep its members safe. And yet somehow, "distinctiveness" has trumped safety
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How Hamas' rockets and Israel's missile-defense system work
feature The fate of the escalating conflict in the Middle East rests primarily on how effective machinery on both sides turns out to be
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America's embarrassingly redundant and entangled cyber security complex
feature Thank goodness no serious observer of electronic warfare considers a cyber-9/11 possible, let alone imminent
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How one inspector general is fighting fraud and waste in Afghanistanfeature John Sopko has done his job so well it's hard to believe he's been allowed to keep it
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How our love of gadgets makes us hate each other
feature Apple and Google evangelists are nearly as zealous as their religious counterparts. And these tribal divisions will only get worse as technology gets better
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The Pentagon's bafflingly backward priorities
feature We can't afford to help veterans pay for school. We can afford missile defense systems that don't work. Brilliant!
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