The 40th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron airdropped about one million leaflets from a C-130 flying over 10 drop zones in Iraq. A Polish psychological operations unit in Iraq asked for the special drop to ask Iraqi citizens to help locate three leaders of an insurgent militia group. Information operations planner Lt. Col. Elizabeth Kavanagh at the Combined Air and Space Operations Center said citizens carrying the leaflets showed up at local police stations “within hours of the drop.”
U.S. Northern Command and multiple research organizations just wrapped up a joint, three-year experiment to test new radar technology that could enable the Northern Warning System to detect incoming threats at longer ranges across Alaska and northern Canada.