Comprehension.
Read this issue's cover story, "The New Blackbeards." Then answer the following questions. 1. What did pirates discover when they hijacked the MV Faina and took its crew hostage on September 25? (A) tanks, ammunition, and military weapons (B) an elite team of...

NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR.
COLUMN: NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR Army Pvt. Stephen P. DeMontigny has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat...

A visionary ahead of his time: Howard Hughes and the U.S. Air Force--Part III: the Falcon missile and airborne fire control.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] No military R&D effort received a higher priority in the postwar years than that to defend the continent against a nuclear air strike. No military weapons systems called for greater advances of technology. No group of scientists and engineers received stronger support of their efforts...

The new blackbeards: pirates menace the waters off Africa.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The pirates were waiting, their rifles and grenade launchers ready, when the French yacht Carre d'As IV sailed around the Horn of Africa and into the Gulf of Aden. To the pirates, the yacht was the perfect prey. Arriving in small speedboats, the pirates swarmed...

Ban cluster bombs.
In May, representatives from more than 100 nations met to forge a global agreement to ban cluster bombs, aerial weapons that release tiny "bomblets" over a wide area and kill indiscriminately. At the Dublin summit, 111 countries formally agreed to end the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster...

Zumbo's story overstates use of military-style weapons in wild.
Byline: INSIDE THE OUTDOORS By Mike Stahlberg The Register-Guard The musings of hunting and fishing writers seldom make the front pages of America's newspapers. A rare exception occurred when comments by Jim Zumbo - an icon among hunting writers - recently became national news. The...

The Arms Trade and International Law.
The Arms Trade and International Law by Zeray Yihdego, Hart Publishing, 2007, ISBN 9781841137469, hardcover, 380 pages, 50.00 [pounds sterling]. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many consider small arms and light weapons (SALW) the weapons of mass destruction of our time. The Arms Trade and International Law deals...

No net benefit: a tactical response to the MDA sale raises a strategic question.
On May 9, 2008, Federal Industry Minister Jim Prentice delivered his final decision on the immediate future of the space and information systems division of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA): it is not for sale. Stating that a proposed sale "would not likely be of net benefit to Canada,"...

GMA vows anew to end insurgency before 2010; Elated by military report on reduced number of rebel fronts.
Byline: JACK TURQUEZA BANGUED, Abra -- President Arroyo reiterated her administration's commitment to end all types of rebellion in the country before she bows out of office in 2010. Meanwhile, the Chief Executive was elated by a report that the Armed Forces of the Philippines...

Talking warheads: Western leaders don't like to mention it, but being able to launch a nuclear attack is still central to their notion of 'security'. The real thing, however, requires a very different approach, argues Paul Rogers.
When Saddam Hussein's forces occupied Kuwait in August 1990, the US led a massive coalition to oust them. Having assembled 600,000 troops and 1, 000 planes from more than 30 countries, Operation Desert Storm started in January 1991 with a huge air assault that was confidently expected to force...