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Japan Sends Fighter Jets After A Second Ever Chinese Invasion Of Its Airspace
China's first ever invasion of Japan's airspace happened just weeks ago, but the move appears to becoming a routine addition to the burgeoning standoff.The AFP now reports:Japan scrambled fighter jets...
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The Launch Of Russia's New 'Silent' Sub Is Just One Step In Rebuilding Its...
Russia recently launched its near silent nuclear submarine following several years of development.The Borey Class submarine, dubbed Vladimir Monomakh, has a next generation nuclear reactor, can dive...
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Miami Police Corruption Trial That's Centering On An Iraq War Vet Is Better...
A pair of veteran Miami narcotics detectives testified in federal court Friday against their former supervisor, accusing Sgt. Raul Iglesias of scheming to plant cocaine on a suspect and once carrying...
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Eight Things The Marines Aren't Telling The Navy
Update: This Reddit post gave me a chuckle this morning and is a play on words from post title to covers of two papers.There's an old rumor that Marines will lie about everything to increase their odds...
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War Correspondent Marie Colvin's $1.85 Million Diss Makes Us Miss Her Even More
Veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin died in Syria's Homs/Aleppo bombing campaigns last February and her loss was felt around the world.The woman was wicked smart from Queens, fearless, motivated,...
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The Department Of Homeland Security Is Hard At Work With One Billion New Bullets
Last March we found 450 million rounds of .40 caliber ammunition slated for delivery to the Department of Homeland Service and its agencies.Weeks later we found an additional request for 750 million...
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Obama Plans To Nominate Chuck Hagel For Defense Secretary And Set Up A...
According to numerous reports, President Barack Obama is preparing to nominate former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to serve as Secretary of Defense, setting up a clash with Senate Republicans over his...
View ArticleWhy Syria Is Different From All Of The Other Arab Spring Uprisings
Arab Spring: Time from protests beginning to the president resigning or being killedEgypt: 17 daysTunisia: 28 daysLibya: 8 monthsYemen: 9.5 monthsSyria: 22 months and countingThere’s a little variation...
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Infographic Shows With Stunning Clarity How Domestic Drone Use Is The New Normal
It's a Pandora's Box we cannot close: drones are here to stay.Police use them, journalists use them, even the folks at Occupy Wall Street used them. The Federal Aviation Administration recently leapt...
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Congressional Inaction Could Kill A Valuable Navy Deal
Having failed to produce timely defense spending bills or avoid a chaotic end to a year-long march toward sequestration, the recently-deceased 112th Congress also failed to approve a normally prosaic...
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Bin Laden Movie Torture Scenes Are Totally Fiction: Ex-CIA Official
Bloody interrogations like those depicted in Hollywood's take on the hunt for Osama bin Laden "Zero Dark Thirty" never really happened, according to the former CIA official who ran such programs."The...
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REPORTS: Obama Will Nominate John Brennan To Be CIA Director
President Barack Obama will nominate John Brennan, the White House homeland-security and counterterrorism adviser, to be the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, according to multiple...
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Four Chinese Surveillance Ships Push Their Luck With Japanese Patience
Four Chinese government ships entered territorial waters around Japan-controlled islands at the centre of a dispute on Monday, the Japanese coastguard said.The four marine surveillance ships were seen...
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U.S. Marine Corps Goes With Rolls Royce For Big Military Contract
Rolls-Royce has won another US military contract. Questor says buy.Rolls-Royce918pQuestor says: BuyDispelling some concerns about global defence spending, on Friday Rolls-Royce won a $52.2m (£32.6m)...
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Republicans Gave A Preview Of What Will Be A Brutal Confirmation Fight For...
Senate Republicans are signaling that there could be a heated battle to confirm former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense, preemptively blasting Hagel on the Sunday talk-show circuit...
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Alabama Teen Allegedly Planned To Assault School With Homemade Explosives
If it weren't for an attentive teacher, the headlines might be different.Larry Gierer of the Ledger Enquirer reports that Derek Shrout, 17, of Russel County, Ala., allegedly planned to detonate...
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John Brennan As CIA Chief Would Cement A New Era Of US Counterterrorism
There are multiple indications that this afternoon President Obama will nominate White House homeland-security and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to be the next director of the CIA.The move is...
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The Marines Axed Their Ultimate Fighting Sponsorship After Anti-Gay Slurs
The U.S. Marine Corp quietly ended its recruitment advertising and sponsorship contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship just before Christmas because of sexist and homophobic slurs used by the...
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Four Things That Could Derail The Nomination Of Chuck Hagel As Defense Secretary
By all accounts, President Barack Obama is preparing to nominate Chuck Hagel replace Leon Panetta as his Secretary of Defense in a 1:05 p.m. press conference today.Obama's move to select Hagel, the...
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Hillary Clinton Got The Perfect Gift On Her First Day Back To The State...
Hillary Clinton returned to work at the State Department today after a month-long absence caused by a string of injuries that ultimately left her in the hospital with a blood clot near her brain....
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