Incoming NATO Military Committee Chairman: Russia could occupy the Baltics in...
The future chairman of the NATO Military Committee has issued some dire warnings about Russia's ability to occupy the Baltic States. Czech General Petr Pavel, who is scheduled to become chairman in...
View ArticleThe Air Force is developing swarms of mini-drones
The Air Force is in the early phases of developing swarms of mini-drones designed to overwhelm and confuse enemy radar systems or blanket an area with multiple sensors at the same time, service...
View ArticleOne of Putin's leading critics was just poisoned
WASHINGTON — The wife of a prominent Russian opposition activist who mysteriously fell ill in Moscow this week is seeking his evacuation to Europe or Israel for toxicology tests, saying his condition...
View ArticleMosul is becoming more and more of an ISIS city — and that's alarming
Hung precariously on otherwise empty scaffolding above a dingy market stall in Mosul's Bab al-Tob neighborhood, the message of the Islamic State (IS) poster belies its surroundings."Mosul city is...
View ArticleJihadists are routing the Syrian government in a key province
AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian army has pulled back from the northwestern city of Ariha after a coalition of insurgent groups seized the last city in Idlib province in northwestern Syria near the Turkish...
View ArticleObama is defending Iranian anti-Semitism to spin his nuclear deal
It’s not every day that you hear President Barack Obama explain away rank bigotry. But in a recent interview, he did just that.“The fact that you are anti-Semitic,” Obama said of the Islamic Republic...
View ArticleStop calling Russia weak
Perhaps ironically, it became more popular to call Russia weak in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.President Obama said it, the leaders of Belarus and Kazakhstan supposedly said it, and European...
View ArticleBoeing just unveiled an amazing new electromagnetic pulse weapon
Born into Generation X, I grew up with the threat of nuclear war -- and all its corollaries, from visions of mushroom clouds to "duck and cover" drills in high school to Terminator movies, and of...
View ArticleISIS' favorite tactic for overrunning cities is brilliant, devastating, and...
Since ISIS exploded onto the scene in Iraq in June 2014, the group has managed to overrun cities garrisoned by contingents of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) that were multiple times larger than the...
View ArticleUkraine owes billions of dollars and everyone wants a piece of it
Kiev (AFP) - Ukraine's finance minister said on Friday that Kiev and its private creditors were about to launch direct debt restructuring negotiations that could save the war-torn country from a...
View ArticleThe clock is ticking on a key part of the Patriot Act
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At 3:59 p.m. EDT on Sunday, the National Security Agency and telecommunications companies will begin mothballing a once-secret system that collected Americans' bulk telephone...
View ArticleGunmen kill 20 bus passengers in Pakistan attack
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen disguised as members of the Pakistani security forces killed at least 20 passengers late on Friday after forcing them off buses traveling from the western city of...
View ArticleIncoming NATO Military Committee Chairman: Russia could occupy the Baltics in...
The future chairman of the NATO Military Committee has issued some dire warnings about Russia's ability to occupy the Baltic States. Czech General Petr Pavel, who is scheduled to become chairman in...
View ArticleIranian military commander killed on the front lines in Iraq
An Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) military commander was killed fighting the Islamic State in Iraq’s Anbar province, according to reports in the Iranian press. Iran has sent IRGC and Basij...
View ArticleIranian military mastermind spotted on Iraq's front lines again
Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commanding officer of Qods Force, the special operations branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, has reportedly been photographed in Iraq’s Anbar province...
View ArticleRussia is deploying new Bastion anti-ship missile systems in the Arctic
In its latest move to enhance the combat readiness of its Northern Fleet, Russia will deploy new Bastion anti-ship missile complexes in the Arctic in 2015, a senior military official announced...
View ArticleAmerica's secret elite warriors explained in one infographic
The US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) oversees roughly 70,000 operators, support units, and civilians from each of the military's sister service branches.America's elite soldiers, work under a...
View ArticleThis amazing Google Earth trick shows Russia lied about the passenger plane...
In Bellingcat’s latest report, "Forensic Analysis of Satellite Images Released by the Russian Ministry of Defense," we exposed how Russia had falsely claimed satellite imagery from June 2014 was from...
View ArticleIraq's incompetent military is in even worse shape than it appears
On June 10, 2014, Mosul, which is Iraq's second-largest city, fell to ISIS as the Iraqi army fled. Today, Iraq's national military is in even worse shape, and may have as few as 5,000 "effective...
View ArticleHezbollah just upped the cyber ante against Israel
Israel is familiar with defending itself against cyberattacks from small hacker groups and armed militants alike. Last year, it claims to have fended off a large-scale strike from Iran during the war...
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