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Declassified Intel Docs: Fidel Castro Actually 'Recruited Nazis' To Train Troops

Fidel Castro recruited former members of the Nazi SS Waffen to train his troops at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, declassified German intelligence files show. The Communist leader also sought...

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Arizona Guardsmen Accused Of 'Hobo Hunting' With Paintball Guns

'Hobo hunting,' sexual misconduct, and fraudulent expense reports totaling more than $1 million are some of the allegations facing the Arizona National Guard. The Arizona Republic recently published a...

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The European Union Has Agreed To Reconquer Northern Mali From Islamic Rebels

European Union foreign ministers on Monday approved moves to "urgently" plan for a possible military mission to help Mali reconquer its vast arid north from rebels and Islamist extremists. Gathered in...

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China Flexes Its Military Might During This Live Ammunition Island Capture...

After nearly a year of back-and-forth between its neighbors regarding island rights in the China Sea, Beijing just concluded a very well documented, live-fire island landing drill. The mission...

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The Army's New Data Network Is Perfect For Tracking All The Gear It's Leaving...

The 10th Mountain Division, headquartered at Fort Drum, N.Y., got a new toy that will keep Soldiers in touch with their commanders as they reach the edges of their battlefield. The Capability Set (CS)...

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This Courtroom Exchange Shows Why It's So Hard To Prosecute The Alleged 9/11...

One exchange in the pre-trial hearings in the military commission case against the alleged plotters of 9/11 pointed to the big, dark elephant in the room. Torture. The lawyers for Khalid Sheikh...

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The Navy's New BAMS Drone Sees Everything That's Happening In The Persian...

While visiting the Persian Gulf last month for an international mine clearing exercise it was mentioned that the whole area was under constant surveillance by a Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS)...

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Don't Believe What Either Party Is Saying About The Benghazi Attack

While Hillary Clinton jumps on a live hand grenade for the Benghazi attack, the White House has leaked to the AP its latest spin on the situation in Libya. Apparently the U.S. has drones and SEALs on...

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The Military Is Building Integrated Hybrid Living-Nonliving Robotic Organisms

In a request released Sept. 14 of this year, the Office Of Naval Research sought to find proposals for "Synthetic Biology Tools for Sensing and Bioprocessing" — essentially hybrid, organic inorganic...

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The Manufacturing Industry Is Looking To Get Real Cozy With Returning Vets

Leaders in the manufacturing industry, and Lt. Dan, got together Monday morning to announce the Get Skills To Work initiative. The plan is intended to help the more than 700.000 unemployed vets start...

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Romney May Be More Popular Among Military Voters, But Obama Gets Way More Of...

Obama's monetary collections from the various wings United States Military outpaces Romney even though Romney polling among military members doubles Obama. The donation comparison comes from campaign...

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Cubans May Now Travel Outside The Country For The First Time In More Than 50...

Fidel Castro's little brother Raul is continuing to loosen restrictions in Cuba, now letting his people take a vacation. According to the Daily Mail, the Communist party paper Granma announced Cubans...

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Police Could Pick Drunks Out Of Crowd With This New Facial Recognition...

Scientists are working on providing police with even more biometrics to pick 'persons of interest' out of the crowd — this time, those people are drunk. Nidhi Subbaraman of MIT Review reports that...

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This Marine Infantry Course Proved Too Much For Its First Two Women Applicants

The Marine Corps sent two female Lieutenants to Marine Corps Infantry Officers Course in Quantico on Sept. 24 for the first time ever. By last week both women had washed out. Tom Bowmen at NPR reports...

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Two Women Drop Out Of Infantry Course, And Two More Sue To Go To Combat

In a strange coincidence, just as a pair of females, a colonel and a sergeant major, are suing the Pentagon on the grounds their careers stalled because they weren't able to hold combat positions, the...

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The FBI's Bizarre Ad For A Kids Cyber Security Video Game Looks Like An SNL...

The FBI's got a new video game designed to teach kids, parents, and teachers about the dangers of web browsing. The game's launch comes in the wake of several cyber stalking and cyber bullying...

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US Citizen Says He's Stranded In Hawaii By No-Fly List Because Of His...

A Mississippi man flying to visit his wife in Japan was detained during a stop in Hawaii on Monday and has been barred from re-boarding any flight because his name came up on a U.S. no-fly list,...

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Author of 'The Finish' Talks About CIA Sources, Bungled Bin Laden Ops, And...

Author Mark Bowden had a juicy story from an agent in the Central Intelligence Agency he was itching to put into his new book, "The Finish: The Killing Of Osama Bin Laden." But he couldn't. "It was...

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Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Blasted 'War On Terror' Policies In Court While...

The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks railed against U.S. national security policies when he was allowed to address the courtroom at Guantánamo Bay on Wednesday, Reuters reports.  Khalid Sheik...

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A Timeline Of Terror Plots On US Soil — Following Yesterday's Arrest Outside...

Since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in September 2001 US authorities have uncovered several attempts to cause death and destruction on American soil. Here is a timeline of some of...

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