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Volume 27
September 2018 Edition
Royal Holdings Technologies’ new SWORD 3D Mobile Distance Scanning Device features an integrated, infrared-ob-
ject-detection HD camera and proprietary algorithms paired with the company’s facial recognition software, and all
placed into a single device that ‘appears to be’ a regular case for an iPhone or iPad - to identify, manage and mitigate
immediate threats.
New SWORD Technology Spells
the End to Asymmetric Terrorism
Guest Op/Ed by Barry Oberholzer, CEO of The famous Battle of Thermopylae in 480
Royal Holdings, Inc.
B.C., depicted in the hit movie “300”, saw
the Spartan-led forces use terrain to help
The concept of asymmetric warfare — defend against the numerically superior
a weaker force adopting tactics and Persian army.
strategies that place the stronger
force at a disadvantage — is nothing Centuries before that, the 22nd century B.C.
Akkadian empire collapsed in part be- 2
new.