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Here are the Air Force's most wanted fugitives
The US military has more than 2.2 million personnel across all branches. Despite the US military's best attempts at instilling discipline and training a professional force, it has its share of bad...
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Houti rebels sacked a US-trained Yemeni special forces camp
SANAA (Reuters) - Armed men from Yemen's newly dominant Houthi group took over a special forces army base in the capital Sanaa early on Wednesday, soldiers there said.The clashes, which lasted around...
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Russia considered a plan to split Ukraine before the president’s overthrow
Strategy document suggests Moscow was already pondered plan to annex Crimea and assimilate pro-Russian regionsThe Kremlin received advice to break up Ukraine and absorb its pro-Russian regions even...
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A former FBI agent revealed the motivations behind 'lone wolf' terrorists,...
There's been a big increase in so-called lone-wolf terrorist attacks, according to a new study, which also revealed characteristics of lone-wolf terrorists.The study by the Southern Poverty Law Center...
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Egyptian military reportedly kills dozens of suspected Islamist militants...
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt’s military killed dozens of suspected Islamist militants in an operation in Sinai, security sources said on Wednesday, while state media reported the kidnapping of a...
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Russian defense minister explains why the Kremlin is militarizing the Arctic
Since Russia's new military doctrine was signed into effect on December 26, the Arctic has been one of three geopolitical arenas deemed by Moscow as vital to national security.Because of the new...
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London's University of Westminster 'shocked and sickened' that Jihadi John...
The college reportedly attended by Mohammed Emwazi, the British ISIS executioner who appeared in a number of beheading videos made by the Islamic State group, said Thursday it was “shocked and...
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Only the US and Estonia are meeting NATO's defense budget goals
Fourteen NATO countries have so far announced their defense budgets for 2015. Of those fourteen, only the US and Estonia have passed the 2% of GDP threshold that every NATO nation pledged to have as...
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Russia's military exercises are WAY bigger than NATO's
If military strength and ability was determined solely by the number of soldiers participating in military exercises, Russia would be able to steamroll through NATO without much of a second thought....
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Debating whether ISIS is or isn't 'Islamic' may actually be a waste of time
The international conversation that forms the backdrop for the campaign against the so-called "Islamic State" (also known as ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group has suddenly found itself drawn into a rabbit...
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This plane 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, it seems like there's no more reassuring sound than the twin engines of the A-10 Thunderbolt screaming in from the distance.That's...
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Russia is turning Crimea into a forward operating base against NATO
Russia is heavily militarizing Crimea as a way to project power deep in to the Black Sea, USNI News reports citing supreme commander of NATO Gen. Philip Breedlove. “What we have seen is that Crimea has...
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Here's a Marine's advice for braving the extreme cold
The polar vortex pummeling the East the last several weeks got me thinking about the misery of living and sleeping in frigid temperatures. When I recently heard a friend say, “I’d much rather be cold...
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Concern grows for civilians as Shia militias cut off Saddam Hussein's hometown
Kirkuk (Iraq) (AFP) - Concern mounted Wednesday over the fate of civilians in Tikrit where Iraqi forces were trying to trap Islamic State group jihadists on the third day of a huge offensive to retake...
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Syrian rebels detonated a massive tunnel bomb under a regime intelligence...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Insurgents attacked a Syrian government security building in the northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, bombing it and then launching a ground assault, sources on both sides and a...
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The 12 largest man-made explosions in history
No other force epitomizes the absolute destructive power humanity has unlocked in the way nuclear weapons have.Though many countries have conducted nuclear tests, only the US and USSR have tested...
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The Air Force's argument to retire the legendary A-10 just doesn't add up
The US Air Force and the rest of the military desperately need to cut billions of dollars while minimizing the loss to combat capabilities. Eliminating platforms provides the greatest cost savings due...
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In Nigeria, officials have warned livestock owners that their animals could become a Boko Haram weapon to disrupt voters in the nation’s coming elections. As bizarre as that may sound, the use of...
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The Air Force took these incredible photos in a single one-week span
The US Air Force is nothing if not photogenic. The military's air branch does incredible things on a daily basis — and its photographers are there to capture some of its most spectacular moments.In the...
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More details about the Syrian Christian businessman serving as Assad's...
This article was originally published on September 5, 2014. We are re-publishing in light of new EU sanctions on Assad's ISIS liaison.For a long time, the conventional narrative about the rise of the...
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