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Bradley Manning To Plead Guilty To 10 Charges In WikiLeaks Case
Army Pvt. Bradley Manning plans to plead guilty to 10 of the 22 charges against him in the hopes of being allowed to speak in open court and expand upon the political motives that moved him to release...
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The Army Doesn't Want You To See The Results Of Its Shady PTSD Probe
This past fall, the Army found out the results of a probe meant to determine if psychiatrists were reversing soldiers' PTSD diagnoses to save the government money by denying them medical retirements....
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North Korea Tried To Get Michael Jordan — And Got Dennis Rodman Instead
It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong-un sat side by side at an exhibition basketball game in Pyongyang, with the former Chicago Bulls bad-boy telling the North Korean leader...
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Here's How The Air Force Refuels Its Fighter Jets In Midair
Aerial refueling has been around since the early days of aviation, but it's still a fascinating idea.Here's how it was done in 1923, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons:Things have come a long way since...
View ArticleWe May Be One Step Closer To 3D Printing Assault Weapons
An internet project aimed at producing defense weapons using 3D printing techniques claims to have created a completely plastic lower for an AR-15. Defense Distributed also say they have test fired it...
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Why The Sequester's Defense Cuts Are Scaring Me Less And Less
Over the next decade — if the current-law sequester cuts and spending caps hold — US defense spending will fall to EU-like levels. That is certainly too low if the US is to remain a global military...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Says War Will Spread If Syrian Rebels Win
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki said armed conflicts will break out in Iraq and Lebanon if Syrian rebels topple Bashar al-Assad, according to an interview he gave to Adam Schreck and Qassim...
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This Is What It's Like Dodging Six Missiles In An F-16
It was the opening days of Operation Desert Storm on Jan. 19, 1991 when fighter jets were roaring through Iraqi airspace — and anti-aircraft crews were waiting for them with surface-to-air missiles...
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Pentagon Says Lockheed F-35 Flights Can Resume After Engine Trouble
The Pentagon has approved flights ofLockheed Martin's F-35 after the fleet was grounded with engine trouble, Tony Capaccio of Bloomberg reports.On February 22 F-35 flights were suspended following the...
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China Executes Drug Kingpin After Broadcasting Last Moments On TV
One of Asia’s most notorious drug kingpins has reportedly been executed in China for the massacre of 13 Chinese sailors - with his final moments being broadcast live on national television.On Friday...
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Bill Gates Is Trying To Eliminate Polio, But Radical Islamists Keep Killing...
Efforts like the one being led by Bill Gates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have reduced the number of children paralyzed by the polio virus from 350,000 in 1998 to fewer than 225 cases in...
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Muslims Firebomb Church In Egypt When Tensions Flare Over Missing Girl
Security officials say hundreds of Muslim residents have thrown firebombs and rocks at police outside a church in the south of Egypt.They accuse local Christians of providing a safe haven for a missing...
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Three-Week Stand-Off In Malaysia Ends In Huge Shootout
Fourteen people were killed in a shootout Friday as Malaysian authorities tried to end a three-week standoff with about 200 members of a Filipino clan occupying a village in eastern Malaysia, police...
View ArticleWorld's Biggest Revolver Fired Successfully
So this is fun.A guy in Poland built a gigantic revolver. Then he fired it.RT reports that "It took Mr (Ryszard) Tobys around 2,500 hours to construct, since most of the parts had to be built by...
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Massive Gun Profits Make Firearms Nearly Impossible To Control [INFOGRAPHIC]
It’s all “Guns ‘N Roses” for the multi-billion dollar firearms industry, still blossoming in the United States. With strong lobbies, like the National Rifle Association, guns ‘n ammo are big business...
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The Border Area Between North And South Korea May Be The Most Tense Place On...
The line between North and South Korea is one of the most nerve-wracking borders on Earth. Although the Korean War is technically over for the U.S., the North and South are still very much at war —...
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Here's Why The Military Invited A Sportswriter To Chat About 'Moneyball'
Sports writer Joe Posnaski was more than surprised when the Army invited him down to Fort Leavenworth to talk about "Moneyball" back in 2008.Like the cash-strapped baseball team in Michael Lewis'...
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Iran Dispatches Sniper Teams To Capital To Eliminate 'Mutant Rats'
Iranian sniper teams are now hunting "genetically mutated" rats in Tehran's streets, according to Umberto Bacchi of The International Business Times.The capital's residents kill about one million rats...
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There's Only One Thing Stopping Enemy Nations From Smashing America's Power Grid
In a world with Weapons of Mass Destruction, deterrence is key.The recent discovery "Chinese" hackers of probing America's electrical grid serves as a reminder of a potential cyber attack that could...
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Forget Sequestration: Lockheed Scored Another $7 Billion To Get The Aging...
The US Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a ceiling of $6.9 billion to upgrade the service’s fleet of F-22 Raptor stealth fighters.Lockheed...
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