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TOP MARINE GENERAL: Budget Cuts May Mean Not Responding To The Next Crisis
Budget cuts could threaten the US military's ability to respond to future Philippines typhoon-style aid crises, the head of America's Marine Corps said Saturday.General James Amos touted the role the...
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Ex-FBI Agent Gets 11 Years For Security Leaks, Child Porn
A former FBI agent was sentenced to more than three years in prison for disclosing confidential national security information about a foiled bomb plot to an Associated Press reporter.Former FBI...
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Former Canadian Military Medic Found Guilty Of Sex Assault For Conducting...
Former Canadian Forces medic James Wilks has been found guilty on 25 charges stemming from the sexual assault of women at military recruitment sites in Ontario from 2003 to 2009, CBC reports.The...
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Libya's Deputy Spy Chief Kidnapped At Airport
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's deputy intelligence chief was kidnapped outside Tripoli airport on Sunday, two security sources said, days after clashes between rival militias and protesters in the capital...
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US Closer To 'Zero Option' In Afghanistan As Troops Deal Hits Impasse
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has rejected a provision of a U.S.-Afghan security pact, putting the entire deal in jeopardy just days before the country's elite gather to debate it, a...
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Two Blasts Target Iranian Embassy In Beirut, Killing Iranian Cultural Attaché...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two explosions targeting the Iranian embassy hit the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday killing at least 23 people and damaging buildings around the embassy compound, medical sources...
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The Pentagon's Doctored Accounting Ledgers Conceal Epic Waste
LETTERKENNY ARMY DEPOT, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Linda Woodford spent the last 15 years of her career inserting phony numbers in the U.S. Department of Defense's accounts.Every month...
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Impersonate The NSA For A Day With This Social Media Experiment
The NSA's global spying apparatus is all the rage nowadays ... or rather, outrage.Aside from the standing accused of violating the sovereignty of countless nations (and aside from the fact that those...
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The CIA Hemorrhages Spies To Top Wall Street Firms
The Central Intelligence Agency is suffering major attrition among officers working closely with the nation's elite financial institutions, reports Jeff Stein for Newsweek.The National Resources...
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Former Blackwater CEO: The NSA Is Turning America Into North Korea
Erik Prince, founder of the private defense company Blackwater (then Xi, now Academi), says that the NSA is turning America into North Korea.Prince, a one-time king of the mercenary world, told Eli...
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NSA Leaks Fall Into 3 Categories, And America Is Focusing On The Wrong One
As Brookings National Security expert Peter Singer explained at the recent Defense One Summit, Edward Snowden's NSA leaks fall into three distinct categories:1. Sensible espionage activities: "We spy...
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Here Are The First 4 Women In History To Complete Marine Infantry Training
Every Marine knows Opha Mae Johnson, the first woman who ever enlisted in the Marine Corps.Now almost 100 years later, the first four females in history have completed the grueling 59-day infantry...
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US NAVY: Hackers 'Jumping The Air Gap' Would 'Disrupt The World Balance Of...
The next generation hackers may be taking to sound waves, and the Navy is understandably spooked.Speaking at last week's Defense One conference, retired Capt. Mark Hagerott cited recent reports about...
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'Average Looking Women:' The Army's Secret Scheme To Sell Women In Combat
Implementing women into combat roles, as was directed by former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta earlier this year, has been a tough sell to the male-dominated military community.Thankfully, the ace...
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A Bipolar Dad Is Serving Life For Stealing Three WWII Rifles, Two Bayonets,...
Florida dad Joel Daigle, who has struggled with bipolar disorder for years, is one of 3,278 Americans who will probably die in prison for a nonviolent crime.Daigle is serving life in prison without...
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Grim Photos Show Why Flesh-Eating Drug 'Krokodil' Is Spreading
Over the past few months there has been a number of concerning reports that desomorphine, a.k.a. "krokodil," a homemade alternative to heroin that is believed to have originated in Russia, may have...
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White House Snubs Afghan Government Request To Apologize For 'Mistakes'...
President Barack Obama's top White House foreign policy aide Tuesday adamantly declared that Washington had "no need" to apologize to Afghanistan for "mistakes" and civilian suffering during the...
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This Simple Exchange Explains Why Iran Nuclear Talks Are So Intense
Negotiations for a deal to curb Iran's nuclear program resume on Wednesday, and an exchange between Iran's Supreme Leader and a militia loyal to him reflects an inherent tension in the halls of...
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North Korea May Have Detained Elderly U.S. Citizen
TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea may have detained an elderly U.S. man last month who entered the country on a tourist visa, Kyodo News Service said on Wednesday, citing an unnamed diplomatic...
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The Stuxnet Attack On Iran's Nuclear Plant Was 'Far More Dangerous' Than...
The Stuxnet virus that ravaged Iran's Natanz nuclear facility "was far more dangerous than the cyberweapon that is now lodged in the public's imagination," cyber security expert Ralph Langer writes in...
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