The rise of “Skynet?”
The Terminator: The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes...
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Speak Hindi? Join the army and become a citizen in 6 months
It’s not easy to get a green card in America, and harder still to become a citizen. However, under a new recruitment program for the armed forces, if you’ve been in the US for 2 years and have the...
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Cat’s Out of the Bag
The Times/UK launches a brilliant piece of investigative journalism that confirms what we’ve already known – that US forces have been pursuing the Global War on Terror from inside Pakistani territory...
View ArticleAbuses by India’s Border Security Force; Questions about Media Coverage
Via the New York Times blog, The Lede, I’ve been looking at a number of links regarding India’s Border Security Force (BSF). The starting point for the coverage in the Times was the news in the Deccan...
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SM Reader (and my cousin) Manan Trivedi for Congress (PA-6)
I have been waiting all summer to do this post and would have posted yesterday (right as the gag was lifted) if not for the fact that I was en-route back from a vacation. My cousin Manan officially...
View ArticleThe Gurkha Way
This past week, journalist Anup Kaphle posted a video he had filmed in Helmand Province, Afghanistan (via The Atlantic). In it he explains the very important role Nepali Gurkha soldiers are playing in...
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In the Army Now
These two guys are officers in the U.S. Army: In USA Today: Dentist Tejdeep Singh Rattan (right) is the first turbaned Sikh to graduate from U.S. officer basic training since 1984. (He is pictured with...
View ArticleSri Lanka: A Year After War’s End
We had some very vigorous discussions at Sepia Mutiny last year as the civil war in Sri Lanka ended, with the LTTE defeat, the death of Prabhakaran, and the placement of some 200,000 Tamils in...
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WWII Flying ace passes away
SM tipster Amol notifies us of some sad news today out of the UK: An Indian pilot who flew Hawker Hurricanes during World War II has died, it has been announced.Squadron Leader Mahinder Singh Pujji,...
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Sikhs in the Yankee Army
As we tweeted earlier, here is an intriguing picture: A Sikh American Civil War veteran [via Sikhnet] Here is the caption as to the origin of the picture: I came across this photograph recently. It is...
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