Rebels In Syria Using iPads To Target Troops

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Mark Melin
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While a certain group of Islamic rebels in Syria have been accused of using stone-aged moralistic principles to guide their behavior, other rebels are not operating using stone-age weapons. The Jaish al-Islam rebels, fighting Syrian troops around the capital of Damascus and at the same time battling ISIS fighters and Al Qaeda-back Jabhat al-Nusra rebels on another front are doing so with the help of an Apple iPad. Using technology to assist rebels in Syria The rebel group has been pictured using Apple tablets to calculate the firing angle of their rocket launchers and howitzer artillery pieces hit their targets…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.