SLOW: Pentagon Red Tape Delayed Iraq’s Life-Saving Lasers. “As early as the spring of 2006, the Pentagon admits, an inexpensive bit of off-the-shelf technology could have given U.S. Marines at their checkpoints in western Iraq a better way of warning off approaching drivers. But the tech — a nonlethal laser gun that ‘dazzles’ drivers and forces them off the road — ran afoul of the Marines’ weapon-developing bureaucracy.”