Computer-Guided Parachutes Resupply Army In Afghanistan
Warfare in Afghanistan is driving the use of this technology. High altitudes, dust and ambushes make resupply by ground vehicles or helicopters dangerous; low-flying heavy-lift airplanes are at risk from missiles. Guided airdrops from large ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Green Party Speaks Out Against War On Afghanistan
The Green Party USA calls for activists and Greens worldwide to join in solidarity against the illegal U.S. war on the people of Afghanistan. We have urged a "hands off" policy in that region, but now we are disappointed to find some European .. ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Cheryl Benard
In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqa. ... [... more]
Random House |
Robot Paradox: Automated Gizmos Are Ready For Home-Are We?
iRobot's military work didn't hurt, either: When American troops entered Afghanistan in 2002, company reps presented them with a new information-gathering tool called Packbot. Although the Army's Airborne Rangers initially brushed off using these ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Robot Tunnel Rats In Afghanistan
The 42-pound tread-driven warriors are adaptations of PackBot, a sort of robot scout developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Initially, the 3-ft.-long x 1-ft.-tall robots were envisioned for reconnaissance duty in war-torn ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Come Back to Afghanistan: Trying to Rebuild a Country ...
 The beautifully and prominently reviewed memoir by an extraordinarily courageous Afghan-American teenager, (now a student at Yale), coming of age in post 9/11 Afghanistan. [... more]
$16.00
Amazon.com |
Bulbs Of Afghanistan
Dear reader, please note: Thank you for visiting my Cottage Garden topic and reading my columns, published here from February 1997 through spring 2003! I regret I am no longer actively editing or contributing to this suite101.com topic as of ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Afghanistan and Surrounding Territory Map
At a scale of 1:3,000,000 (1" to 47 miles) this map shows all of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan and other border regions. Hysometric color shading depicts elevation. Fully indexed, the map shows roadways, and tracks, railways, distances, ... [... more]
$8.95
Amazon.com |
Baechtold's Best: Afghanistan: The Ultimate Visual ...
Planning a trip to Afghanistan? Bring a Baechtold! Baechtold's Best is a revolutionary concept in travel guides for both the adventurous traveler and the arm-chair variety. Created exclusively using images and maps, Baechtold introduces the traveler to ... [... more]
$12.95
Amazon.com |
BATTLE FOR AFGHANISTAN
This is the story of the defeat of Soviet Russia's forces in Afghanistan by a guerrilla force known as the Mujahideen, heavily backed by Pakistan and the USA. The Mujahideen paved the way for the Taliban regime, to exist having all but defeated the ... [... more]
$24.95
Amazon.com |
Enduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan
Within hours of the September 11 attacks, Sean M. Maloney deciphered that Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda were the aggressors behind the despicable act. A war in Afghanistan then was inevitable. As a military historian, Maloney was determined to go there to ... [... more]
$27.50
Amazon.com |
The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the ...
A National Public Radio reporter covering the last stand of the Taliban in their home base of Kandahar in Afghanistan's southern borderland, Sarah Chayes became deeply immersed in the unfolding drama of the attempt to rebuild a broken nation at the ... [... more]
$25.95
Amazon.com |
