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Hybrids Are For Soldiers Too, Not Just Elite Effete Eco-Wimps

Green Car Reports

The only people who buy hybrids are the ones who want to show off their green credentials. Tell it to the Marines. Or, more accurately, tell it to the Israel Defense Forces. Yeah, yeah, we know. They're effete, elite coastal residents who probably drove Subarus before they got their hybrids.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

Cars That Think

“This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.” Greico, Stimson Center Back in 1981, Israel sent modest contraptions sporting surveillance cameras in its war against Syria, to some effect.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

Cars That Think

His parents happily indulged this passion, buying him a computer and providing him with unrestricted Internet access. The VDoS gang members had been only 14 years old when they started to offer DDoS services from Israel in 2012. Marine, Peterson is a calm and self-assured agent with a buzz cut of red hair. A former U.S.

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