By Roger Charles When the post-mortem on our current military venture in Iraq is finally written, and if an honest analysis is allowed, the failure of the United States to provide decent, best-available body armor to our fighters will be acknowledged as the worst equipment failure of all. And, again ...

The Interceptor Outer Tactical Vest was designed for use with SAPI plates and replaces the Personnel Armor System, Ground Troop Flak vest, more commonly known as the flak vest. The "Marine Lethal Torso Injuries: Preliminary Findings 8/29/2005" was reportedly made to identify current weaknesses in the product, which was designed ...

By Nathaniel R. Helms US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Darlington Butler received two Medals of Honor for incredible bravery and the title of world-class hypocrite because he dared call war and the trapping of war "a racket."   In the case at hand the product is body armor and ...

By Nathaniel R. Helms At the time of this report, despite repeated inquiries, the Department of Defense and the US Army had not commented on this report. So-called "SAPI" plates do not provide complete protection from sniper bullets because of gaps in coverage around the torso. Two weeks ago the ...

by Nathanial R. Helms A complete suit of Dragon Skin armor, at more than $5,000 per copy, currently costs about five times as much as Interceptor OTV body armor being issued to the troops. Inceptor armor is primarily produced by two giant companies, Armor Holdings Corporation, the current darling of ...

by Peter J. Nebergall, PhD Note: PowerPoint Presentations still in the news as mentioned in the New York Times recent post. In 1961, disgusted by the verbal excesses of his fellows, anthropologist Elman Service penned "Models in the Methodology of Mouthtalk." In this paper, he railed against "conspicuous conceptualization," his term ...