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Articles Written by: DAVID AXE
Who is This?
David Axe is a freelance writer and photographer. Axe is a "military correspondent living in Washington, D.C. Since 2005 he has reported from Iraq, Lebanon, East Timor and Afghanistan. He is the military editor of D.C.-based Defense Technology International magazine and a regular contributor to Popular Science, The Washington Times, C-SPAN, Military.com and BBC Radio, among many others. His graphic novel war memoir WAR FIX made Amazon’s 2006 top ten list. ARMY 101, his nonfiction tale about Army ROTC, debuted in January 2007. He blogs alongside tech writer Noah Shachtman at WIRED's Blog Network Danger Room.
After nearly a
decade at war in Afghanistan, the United States still has not defined the terms
of the conflict. Seven months after President Barack Obama's administration
released its wide-ranging strategic review of the war, basic questions remain. ...
From DAVID AXE, MALOU INNOCENT, JASON REICH,
Foreign Policy,
6 Oct 2009
On Monday last week, Stars & Stripes broke the story that U.S. forces in Afghanistan had hired The Rendon Group, a D.C.-based media consulting firm, to write assessments of war reporters. The profiles rated journalists as “positive,” “negative” or ...
From DAVID AXE,
Wired,
31 Aug 2009
The Army has until next month to come up with a new plan for buying armored vehicles starting around 2014, using the money saved from FCS. What should we expect from the land service’s so-called “Brigade Combat Team Modernization,” as the vehicle ...
From DAVID AXE,
Wired,
31 Aug 2009
“Rating the coverage that reporters give the military — “positive,” “neutral,” “negative” — seems a bit silly and slightly Orwellian, but if thousands of reporters were covering my organization, I would want a simple shorthand to identify them as ...
From DAVID AXE,
Wired,
28 Aug 2009
But to others, the Mistral plan would be the obvious result of 20 years of Russian industrial decay. The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s badly disrupted Russian weapons manufacturing. The Russian air force has bought fewer than 100 ...
From DAVID AXE,
Wired,
28 Aug 2009
“If I find something that is inconsistent with Defense Department values and policies, you can be sure I will address it,” Whitman assured reporters. “For me, a tool like this serves no purpose and it doesn’t serve me with any value.”
If you're not yet ...
From DAVID AXE,
Wired,
27 Aug 2009
But the light-fighter program is about more than buying a few planes. It could be a model for better way of developing and buying weapons. Quickly buying a small number of tweaked, off-the-shelf attack planes would jibe with the powerful new vision ...
From DAVID AXE,
Wired,
27 Aug 2009
The Pentagon denied that the ratings were used to screen embeds. Besides, the military stopped using the “positive,” “negative” and “neutral” labels in October, according to Pentagon spokesman Brian Whitman. Now the Pentagon simply looks for accuracy ...
From DAVID AXE,
Wired,
26 Aug 2009
To boost ship numbers without spending much more money, the U.S. Navy put a new twist on an old idea, “modularity.” But that plug-and-play approach has proven very expensive. As the Navy struggles to make modularity work, other world navies have taken ...
From DAVID AXE,
Wired,
26 Aug 2009
Bill recalls a 2003 presentation from members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in which the secretive scientists discussed the biggest radar hot-spots on Russia’s main fighter, the Su-27, variants of which are still in production. Later, one ...
From DAVID AXE,
Wired,
26 Aug 2009
