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This Bloomberg Reporter Got To Take The F-35 Simulator Out For A Spin
A Bloomberg reporter got away from numbers for a day, to play inside Lockheed Martin's most pricey video game. The F-35 Cockpit Demonstrator provides pilots with a good sense of how to handle one of...
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This Is The Face Of Salvation When You're Outgunned In The US Army
When you're hunkered down behind a sliver of cover taking heavy fire, there is no more reassuring sound than the twin engines of the A-10 Thunderbolt screaming in from the distance. That's what you...
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Gunmen Have Attacked And Entered A Pakistani Air Force Base Thought To House...
Gunmen have attacked and entered a Pakistan air force base, according to Reuters. The target is the Minhas Air Base in the town of Kamra, located around 40 miles outside Islamabad. The attacked is...
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The Best Thing About Being A Military Dad Is Also The Worst
I'm not going to lie. It’s tough being a parent in the military I’m certainly not saying that non-military parents take their kids for granted, because I don’t think that’s the case at all. I think...
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This Is What Disarming Bombs In The Military Is Really Like
There is an unassailable prestige that come from being an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) member in the military. They're as cool as jet pilots, with the hands of a heart surgeon who operates on...
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The Thing About Weapons Is They Still Don't Make War
Colin S. Gray notably claimed that “weapons don’t make war.” Gray did not mean that no relationship existed between weapons, policy, and strategy, but that as instruments, weapons only have meaning in...
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This Is What 11 Years Of Funerals Does To Servicemembers
I hate war. I hate death. I hate funeral homes, wakes, and cemeteries. Heck, I even hate hospitals. When I was a young officer, wearing my dress uniform, attending ceremonies was fun because it always...
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Ecuador Grants Political Asylum To Julian Assange
The Ecuadorian government has granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The full statement can be read here. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino first spoke about Assange's...
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If This Document Is Correct Israel's Attack On Iran Would Be Like Nothing...
American blogger Richard Silverstein claims to have acquired an "Israeli briefing document" that outlines an Israeli attack on Iran and its nuclear facilities. While the validity of the report is...
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Taliban Claims Responsibility For Killing Seven American In Helicopter Attack
KABUL (Reuters) - Eleven people were killed on Thursday in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, including seven U.S. soldiers and three Afghan allies, the NATO-led force in the...
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Two Wartime Doctors Created An Inflatable Tourniquet That Will Save Countless...
When someone's aorta, the largest artery in the human body, is ruptured, there is almost nothing that can be done to save that person. That is, until now. Two emergency medical doctors with wartime...
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500 Million Tons Of Shipping May Grind To A Halt If The Mississippi River...
The Mississippi River is vital to American commerce and communities from the Gulf of Mexico to Minnesota, but the drought of 2012 is putting the river and those who rely on it in jeopardy. John Yang...
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Hezbollah's Happy Little 'Resistance Museum' Shoots For Tomorrow's Fighters
Hezbollah has opened a theme park to "encourage resistance terrorism." Wait, hold on a sec, what I meant was, "tourism." The Vice Guide's Ryan Duffy produced a video about this new happiest place on...
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If You Really Want To Bring Weed On An Airplane Do Not Stash It In A Jar Of...
The Transportation Security Administration's official blog announces all of the significant items confiscated by the airport security group, and there's a trend lately of people being caught trying to...
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Bulgaria Releases Images Of A Suspected Accomplice To The Burgas Bus Bombing
Bulgarian authorities have released a computer-generated image and a fake Michigan license of a suspected accomplice to the suicide bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver...
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Stunning Pictures Of Afghanistan Like You've Never Seen It Before
With today's deadly attack on American forces and the fatal downing of an Apache helicopter, the nation again looks to Afghanistan and the troop withdrawal in 2014. It's been a long 11 years, and the...
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India's Entering An Exclusive Military Club And There's No Turning Back
Within the next 18-months, India will commission it's first self-built nuclear submarine, complete with ballistics missiles fitted for nuclear warheads. Currently only a handful of elite countries...
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REPORT: Bashar Al-Assad's Brother Had His Leg Blown Off In Rebel Bombing
Bashar al-Assad's enforcer brother Maher lost a leg in a bomb attack on the Syrian leader's security cabinet on July 18, according to Reuters sources. The Syrian president's younger brother – known...
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Too Many Americans Are Being Killed By Afghan Allies, This Is What They Need...
The bad news out of Afghanistan won’t stop. It’s like the longest nightmare ever and we just can’t wake up. After seven green-on-blue (Afghans attacking American counterparts) attacks in the last...
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Former Marine Admitted To Psych Ward Over Facebook Posts Doesn't Know Why He...
Brandon Raub, the former Marine taken into custody after federal agents questioned him about anti-government Facebook posts, gave an interview from a Virginia psychiatric ward yesterday. Raub spoke...
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