by blloyd | Jul 13, 2020 | Article, Chemical, Defense, Protection
Chlorine, mustard, sulphur-mustard and worse have been used in Iraq and Syria by state actors and non-state actors such as Daesh. While state actors like the Syrian regime have access to documented and suspected chemical munitions facilities, non-state actors rely...
by blloyd | Jul 13, 2020 | Article, Defense
The prevalence of IEDs in Afghanistan and Iraq, combined with their simplicity, resulted in these devices being difficult to detect and extremely deadly. During these campaigns unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs – ‘drones’) were also deployed against Coalition forces in...
by blloyd | Jun 22, 2020 | Article, Covid-19
Caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, there is so much that we do not know yet about the virus causing this pandemic – despite its rampant path worldwide since it was first detected last year in the city of Wuhan, in Hubei Province in China. As of April, at...
by blloyd | Jun 22, 2020 | Article, Covid-19
For centuries, microbial life has proved to be a stealthy and deadly enemy of the people. From the Black Death (bubonic plague) in the 14th-century to the influenza pandemic which which killed up to 50 million from 1918 to 1920, and now, in our century, the...
by blloyd | Jun 22, 2020 | Article, Covid-19
Governments across Europe have intensified their search for ventilators as doctors and hospitals prepare for a continuing surge in patients infected with COVID-19 Medical ventilators are machines designed to put oxygen into the lungs of patients with acute respiratory...
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