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An Iraqi Colonel Perfectly Anticipated His Country's Collapse Back In 2006
A colonel in the Iraqi army warned in 2007 that a democratic political system couldn't immediately take hold in Iraq.Marine First Lt. Wesley Gray, the current team leader of asset management fund Alpha...
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Pentagon Officials: US Troops Will Pilot Apache Attack Helicopters In Iraq
The nearly 500 American troops sent to Baghdad to bolster security for the US embassy are equipped with Apache attack helicopters and small unarmed surveillance drones, Pentagon officials said...
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Turkey Has Made An About Face On Iraqi Kurdistan — Here's How That's Changing...
Unseemly though it may be to talk of winners and losers in light of a transnational terrorist network’s establishment of a new “caliphate,” it remains the case that the Kurds stand to gain...
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Here's What A Bombing Run Looks Like From The Underbelly Of A Fighter Jet...
The following video shows a practice bombing mission flown by a Russian Air Force Su-24 Fencer jet, using cameras mounted on the belly of the aircraft. As expected, this provides an unusual and...
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Some People Want A Time Limit On The NSA's 'Zero-Day' Exploits — Here's Why...
Dave Aitel is CEO of Immunity Inc., a leading offensive security firm that serves major financial institutions, industrials, Fortune/Global 500s and US government/military agencies. He is a former NSA...
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Sesame Street Has A Resource Kit For Grieving Military Families That We Wish...
Sesame Workshop, the non-profit behind the long-running children's television icon "Sesame Street," has released an appropriately somber, but perhaps incredibly helpful, resource kit for grieving...
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Here Are The Militaries Of The World Cup's Final Eight
Soccer is one seemingly unmistakable way of measuring countries against one another — every game has a final score, after all. A far starker point of measurement is warfare. Before the post-World War...
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Here's How Iraq Could Turn Into A Failed State In A Day
ISIS has the ability to immediately turn Iraq into a failed state through the destruction of the country's dams, Keith Johnson wrote in Foreign Policy. On June 30, ISIS forces began moving towards the...
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US Discloses Secret Somalia Military Presence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military advisors have secretly operated in Somalia since around 2007 and Washington plans to deepen its security assistance to help the country fend off threats by Islamist...
View ArticleSecretary Of Defense Hagel Called 'Secretary Of Defense Howard' Over His...
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called 'Secretary of Defense' Tim Howard today to thank him for his amazing goalkeeper performance during the USA-Belgium World Cup game yesterday. From 1 SecDef to...
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19-Year-Old American Woman Charged With Trying To Help ISIS Militants
A 19-year-old Colorado woman has been charged with providing material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization, after she was arrested trying to board a flight from Denver to allegedly...
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FORMER US AMBASSADOR: Edward Snowden Is 'Manna From Heaven' For The Russians
A former U.S. Ambassador to Russia told a crowd at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Wednesday that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden making it to Moscow was "manna from heaven for the Russians," Shane...
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An F-15 Pilot Made This Awesome Cockpit Video Of Maneuvering Through Canyons
Here is what it looks like to fly at high-speed, through canyons in the back seat of an F-15E Strike Eagle.Filmed from the cockpit, the video lets you appreciate an in-cockpit experience along with the...
View ArticleHere's A Look At Some Of The Weirdest Weapons The TSA Has Confiscated From...
The days around July 4th are some of the peak travel dates of the year for domestic flights in the U.S. This weekend, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) is going to be busier than usual,...
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CHARTS: The Pentagon's Strategy For Stopping The Spread Of Weapons Of Mass...
On June 30, the Pentagon released a report detailing the U.S.'s strategy for countering weapons of mass destruction. "The pursuit of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)," Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel...
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No, The U.S. And Israel Aren't Headed For A Major Split
Michael Cohen published an article in Foreign Policy a couple of days ago in which he argues that the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship will be marked by “less cooperation, more disagreements, and...
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Clashes Are Erupting Throughout Jerusalem As Tensions Build
Arab-Jewish tension in parts of Jerusalem was at fever pitch Thursday afternoon, three days after the funerals for three slain Israeli teens and a day after the alleged revenge killing of 16-year-old...
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The F-35 Fighter Jet Is A Historic $1 Trillion Disaster
This was supposed to the be the F-35's big month.The troubled next-generation fighter jet was going to make its international debut at the Farnborough Air Show in England. The U.S. and its partners...
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The Tide Is Finally Turning For The Kurds — Especially In Turkey
Turkey has been dropping some serious hints that it could recognize an independent Kurdish state, and by extension the dissolution of the current Iraqi state, Marc Champion writes for Bloomberg View....
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TOP US GENERAL: Without Help, There's No Way Iraqis Can Go After ISIS
The US military's top officer said Thursday that Iraqi forces had shored up their defenses around Baghdad but would need outside help to eventually regain territory lost to Sunni militants.General...
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