Russia Is Desperate To Avoid A Sanctioned 'Proxy War' With The West In Syria
Iran is stepping up arms shipments to Syria. It has trained and funded 50,000 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters. And it has Russia as a political umbrella in the U.N, according to recent reports.While it...
View ArticleSequester Crushes Small Defense Firms While The Biggies Pivot To Cyber
Sequester budget cuts totaling to $47 billion won't even touch the big fish, according to a Leigh Munsil Politico report.Instead, law makers are more likely to cut off the little fish."Lawmakers have...
View ArticleHow To Hire An Assassin On The Secret Internet For Criminals
There are people on the internet claiming to offer contract killing services for hire.They advertise their wares via Tor, an anonymous and decentralized network of websites that exist off the grid and...
View ArticleNorth Korean Website Tells Residents Of Disputed Islands To 'Run' To Avoid...
Steve Herman, an Asia-pacific guru and Voice of America reporter, tweets some ominous messages coming from a North Korean website:In 2010, North Korea fired on disputed islands, in what was the...
View ArticleHigh-Ranking Syrian General Defects From Army
BEIRUT (AP) — A high-ranking general in the Syrian army defected on Saturday with the help of rebels and said morale is low among those still fighting for President Bashar Assad as the civil war enters...
View ArticleNorth Korean Kids Dance With Smiling Rocket To Celebrate Lunar New Year
Americans have Barney the dancing dinosaur, North Koreans have the dancing smilingTaepo-Dong II rocket.Yes, during North Korea's lunar year celebration, Feb. 10, kids danced with the DPRK's newest,...
View ArticleYou Should See The High-Tech Equipment On Display At The Border Security Expo
HOENIX -- Someplace else, the trio of compact aircraft hanging in mid-air might have been mistaken for shiny, remote-controlled toys. Not at the Border Security Expo, where the tiny drones outfitted...
View ArticleBY THE NUMBERS: The Most Expensive Jet Ever Built
Thanks to the sequester, the Defense Department is now required to cut more than $40 billion this fiscal year out of its $549 billion budget. But one program that's unlikely to take a significant hit...
View ArticleThe Real Cost Of Our Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan... [PHOTO]
After more than a decade of war in the Middle East, it's easy to forget.Lesleigh Coyer, 25, of Saginaw, Michigan, lies down in front of the grave of her brother, Ryan Coyer, who served with the U.S....
View ArticleSecret Tapes Reveal LBJ Knew But Never Spoke Out About Nixon's Alleged 'Treason'
Rumors and whispers of Richard Nixon's 'treason' — sabotaging Vietnam peace talks to help his Presidential campaign — have floated around for years, but newly released tapes from Lyndon Johnson's...
View ArticleWhat Mao’s Grandson Reveals About Modern China
HONG KONG — Mao Zedong's grandson just can't catch a break. The most-mocked man at China’s annual rubber-stamp congress—which is wrapping up this week in Beijing—was in some respects also its most...
View ArticleThe Most Incredible Photos Of America's Marines So Far This Year
Maybe I'm biased.The Marine Corps actually taught me, among other things, photography. Paid me for it, in fact.I served four years as a Combat Correspondent — a Marine photojournalist — and saw a lot...
View ArticleThe Pressure's High As Iran Sits Down With West For Nuclear Talks In Istanbul
Experts of Iran and six world powers will meet behind closed doors in Istanbul tomorrow for “technical-level” nuclear talks aimed at turning recent diplomatic progress into concrete measures. Diplomats...
View ArticleHijacked Helicopter Scoops Up Two Canadian Prison Inmates In Daring Escape
Two prisoners in Canada have made an audacious, but short-lived, bid for freedom after being hoisted away in a helicopter reportedly commandeered by their accomplices.In scenes reminiscent Hollywood...
View ArticleCIA And M16 Knew Iraq Didn't Have WMDs Before 2003 Invasion
Fresh evidence is revealed today about how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels by Saddam Hussein's foreign minister and his head of intelligence that Iraq had no active weapons of mass...
View ArticleBody And Homemade Bombs Found In University Of Central Florida Dorm
Authorities found a body with a self inflicted gunshot wound and a bag of explosive material in a University of Central Florida dorm early Monday morning, Jason Hanna of CNNreports.Speculation...
View ArticleIran Has Launched A Guided Missile Destroyer Into The Caspian Sea
Iran launched a domestically built destroyer in the Caspian Sea on Sunday, its first deployment of a major warship in the oil-rich region, state TV reported.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated...
View ArticleChina Surges Past Britain To Become The Fifth Largest Arms Exporter In The World
For the first time, China has become the world’s fifth biggest arms exporter – its highest ranking since the cold war – pushing the United Kingdom from the top five exporters list, a Sweden-based...
View ArticleNorth Korea's Prison Camps Are Absolutely Horrifying
As international leaders fear what Pyongyang may do beyond its borders, perhaps the biggest issue is what happens within.North Korea operates a growing network of prison camps containing up to 200,000...
View ArticleFormer Imagineer Produces Smell Of Burning Flesh For The Defense Dapartment
There's a few smells that are difficult to forget: gasoline and gun powder should go without mentioning, but there's plenty more unsavory smells out there.Now there's a company called ScentAir, started...
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