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US Army soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division handover control of a Combat Outpost in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, to Afghan National Army soldiers. After the total withdraw of American forces, American forces supply the Afghan soldiers with ammunition and medical evacuation--if necessary. Imagery shot on December 21, 2010.

In 1978, New York City was crumbling and the leading indicator of America's seemingly irreversible decline. The South Bronx, once a thriving middle-class neighborhood, had became a national symbol of urban horror. From 1960 to 1980, New York's murder rate tripled. Out-of-control spending had brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy, leading to a state takeover of its finances. The city's subway was plauged by crime, graffiti, and equipment breakdowns. On July 13th, 1977, the city reached its nadir when a 24-hour blackout gave way to mass looting. Bushwick, a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, was practically burned to the ground. Then in 1978, Edward Irving Koch became New York's 105th Mayor. A veteran congressman from Manhattan, Koch's chutzpah was exactly what the city needed. A self-proclaimed "liberal with sanity," Koch took on special interests, he put the city's finances back in order, and showed that it was not only possible to govern but to have fun doing it. Koch gained a national reputation by being the quintessential New Yorker: A Bronx-born ethnic whose disparaging remarks about life outside the city may well have sunk his 1981 bid for the governor's mansion in Albany. Long presumed to be gay, Koch kept mum about his personal life while pushing for social tolerance. His symbolic and practical role in the Big Apple's multi-decade renaissance is as huge as his appetite for publicity. Since losing his bid for a fourth term in 1989, Koch has been a ...

Letter to Col Howard Belotes -As an interested civilian who follows the war on terror, I have some feedback on Col Howard Belotes article Counterinsurgency Airpower: Air-Ground Integration for the Long War (Fall 2006). I think the key to winning an in-surgency is being able to digitize the terrorists and place them in our digital battlefield. How can we do this? By identifying everyone and tracking his or her movements in real time. That way we could track everyone except the terrorists, which would make them stand out. HowcanwedothisinIraq?Throughthecreation of a layered electronic-identification system that tracks vehicles and people through elec-tronic radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices embedded in their identification pa-pers and vehicle tags. All residents of Iraq would have RFID-embedded ID papers, driv-ers licenses, library cards, police IDs, security IDs, employee IDs, passports, visas, vehicle registrations, license plates, and so forth. By digitizing the population, we could identify anyone who doesnt belong somewhere. We could create unmanned, automated choke points throughout Baghdad, forcing vehicles and pedestrians to pass over or near sensors that could identify a particular vehicle or per-son. We could then transmit the resulting data in real time to central computers, which could process it using algorithms that pick out suspi-cious activity. We could track persons inside vehicles through triangulation of RFIDs using a three-antenna setup ...