Al Qaeda's Second-In-Command Vows To Strike America In New Video
DUBAI (Reuters) - The leader of Al Qaeda's wing in Yemen has vowed to attack the United States, in a video apparently showing a gathering of the group celebrating a mass jailbreak of fighters.In...
View ArticlePro-Russia Separatists Take Armored Vehicles, Humiliating Kiev Forces
KRAMATORSK / SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Separatists flew the Russian flag on armored vehicles taken from the Ukrainian army on Wednesday, humiliating a Kiev government operation to recapture...
View ArticleUK Says Iraqi Murder Allegations Against Its Troops Are A Conspiracy
LONDON (Reuters) - Allegations British troops unlawfully killed up to 20 Iraqi men at an army camp in 2004 were part of a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, the British government told a...
View ArticleCIA Allegedly Used Red Hot Chili Peppers Music To Torture Guantanamo Inmate
The funk-rock antics of the Red Hot Chili Peppers can now be listed alongside waterboarding as methods of torture the CIA allegedly used against Guantanamo Bay detainees, Al Jazeera reports, citing an...
View ArticleVETERAN: Ecstasy Drug Saved Me From My Battle With PTSD
Tony Macie, a retired Sergeant of the U.S. Army, had a 15-month tour in Iraq in 2006 and 2007, during the so-called surge in that war zone.Macie was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...
View ArticleEnhanced Interrogation Mastermind: 'I'm Just A Guy Who Got Asked To Do...
Dr James Elmer Mitchell has been called a war criminal and a torturer. He has been the subject of an ethics complaint, and his methods have been criticized in reports by two congressional committees...
View ArticlePakistani Girls' Seminary Names Library After Osama Bin Laden
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Most didn't notice the new library at this Islamic seminary for girls near Pakistan's capital, until locals saw the paper sign in Urdu posted on its wooden door: "Library of Osama bin...
View ArticleThis Chart Shows How The Rest Of The World Doesn't Even Come Close To US...
Earlier this week, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released a Fact Sheet identifying global, regional, and national trends in military expenditures. According to the...
View ArticleClimate Change Could Start The Next World War
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just completed a series of landmark reports that chronicle an update to the current state of consensus science on climate change. In a sentence,...
View ArticleStunning Photo Of 24 US Apache Attack Helicopters Performing A Mass Landing
This photo shows 24 AH-64D Longbow Apache attack helicopters with the 4th Aerial Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment, 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade conduct a mass landing at Camp Humphreys,...
View ArticleHere's Why Putin's Surveillance Denial Was Clearly Wrong
Russia president Vladimir Putin gave a false answer about his surveillance when questioned last week, according to security expert James Andrew Lewis.Putin answered the following question from rogue...
View ArticleRussian And American Combat Dolphins Might Face Off This Summer
The tense East-West standoff in Ukraine could reach a new level of escalation: underwater. According to a report from the Russian newspaper Izvestia, the United States Navy's marine mammal unit will be...
View ArticleExperts Are Very Skeptical About The Pentagon's Plan For Iron Man Suits
U.S. Special Operations Command recently built a new website to promote its vision of elite commandos outfitted in futuristic battle suits that have become so popular in Hollywood blockbusters.Military...
View ArticleSyria's Deadly Chlorine Gas Wasn't Included On Chemical Weapons Ban
Chlorine gas attacks in Syria this month, if proven, expose a major loophole in an international deal which promised to remove chemical weapons from Syria and suggest chemical warfare could persist...
View ArticleThese 23 Countries Have More Than Doubled Military Spending In The Last Decade
Bucking a global trend of reining in military spending, 23 countries around the world at least doubled their military spending between 2004 and 2013, according to a fact sheetreleased by The Stockholm...
View ArticleUkraine To Relaunch Military Operations Against Pro-Russia Rebels After...
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's acting president called for an anti-terrorist operation to be relaunched in the east of the country on Tuesday after the body of a local politician from his own party was...
View ArticleArmy General Fired By President Obama: Don't Feel Sorry For Me
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former U.S. general in charge of operations in Afghanistan, has contributed an article to LinkedIn about how to turn setbacks into success.McChrystal was the commander of...
View ArticleNavy Fighter Pilots Made This Awesome GoPro Video Of Their Supersonic Maneuvers
U.S. Naval unit Strike Fighter Squadron 27 released an incredible YouTube video documenting what life is like inside a supersonic F/A-18E Super Hornet.Filmed with GoPro-style cameras, the five-minute...
View ArticleI Never Met Pat Tillman, But He Made Me A Better Man
Ten years ago today, I had great seats at the NFL draft at the Jacob Javitz Center in New York City. It was a few days after my 15th birthday.It was a hell of a draft – Eli Manning, Philip Rivers, Ben...
View ArticleArmy Recognizes 'Humanism' As Distinct Religion
Members of the U.S. Army can now proudly and officially list their religion as "Humanist," after years of not being able to do so, according to the ACLU.The Army's faith code allows for designation of...
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