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U.S. troops to train regular Ukrainian military troops - State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. troops will begin training regular Ukrainian military forces later this year in an expansion of their current mission, which so far has been limited to instructing Interior...
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REPORT: Iran's strategic mastermind met with top Iraqi Kurdish leaders
BEIRUT – Kurdish media outlets have reported that Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani met recently with Iraqi Kurdish leaders, including President Massoud Barzani, who for...
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3 early tank designs that were too ridiculous to function
Tanks are a staple of ground warfare. Militaries around the world deploy a wide range of tanks, but typically they conform to some basic principals. In nearly all of them, a large turret sits on top of...
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El Chapo's troubles may only be beginning ...
The July 11 escape of cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera might have gotten him out of Mexico's most secure prison.But one of the world's most powerful drug lords has other, even bigger...
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This is the FBI's dream team of elite counterterrorism operators
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has its own "dream team" of special operators trained to save the lives of hostages and respond to terror attacks.It's called the Hostage Rescue Team. With the...
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Stunning images show US Air Force A-10s operating on a dry lake bed in...
On Jul. 16, two US Air Force A-10s belonging to the 75th Fighter Squadron from Moody Air Force Base in Georgia performed austere landing operations at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin,...
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Obama's Middle East strategy is based on the fantasy that Iran can help solve...
With the nuclear deal finally out of the way, President Obama can now get down to what, for him, has always been the real business — engaging Iran on regional issues.As one administration official has...
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These amazing colorized photographs bring World War I to life
One month after a Bosnian-Serb assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, on a street corner in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia,...
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators just held low-key talks in Jordan
Interior Minister Silvan Shalom held talks with senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat in Amman in recent days, Israeli sources told The Times of Israel on Sunday.The two met in a bid to calm...
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The US has a crazy way of crushing tanks without harming people nearby
In 1999, U.S. military planners had to solve a tricky problem: How do you stop a ruthless dictator from breaking the rules without resorting to ruthless tactics yourself?Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein...
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A Marine explains which state would win if the US declared war on itself
We recently came across the following question on Quora: “If every state of the USA declared war against each other, which would win?“We’ve published the full answer from Quora user Jon Davis, a Marine...
View ArticleHow the US military spends its billions
In 2014, the US spent more on defense then the next 7 countries combined. So, where does the money go? We broke down the the 2015 Department of Defense budget request to find out.Produced by Alex...
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Here’s what it’s like when Special Forces raid a compound
Few groups in the U.S. military are as revered as Army Special Forces. They slip into other countries and work with the locals to build up friendly forces and take down enemies. Here’s what it looks...
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US intelligence community report: America's weak response to cyber attacks...
The United States will continue to suffer increasingly damaging cyber attacks against both government and private sector networks as long as there is no significant response, according to a recent US...
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It turns out that Russian submarine found off Sweden is probably from World...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A submarine wreck discovered off the eastern coast of Sweden probably dates from World War One rather than last year when the military hunted for a suspected Russian submersible,...
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A B-25 crashed into the Empire State Building 70 years ago today
On Saturday, July 28, 1945, 27-year old Lieutenant Colonel William Franklin Smith, Jr. was piloting a B-25 “Mitchell” bomber on a routine personnel transport mission from Boston to Newark Airport.Smith...
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Turkey may have just dragged the US into a strategic quagmire in Syria
This weekend Turkey and the United States took steps toward getting more heavily involved in the Syrian quagmire.First, after a year of protracted negotiations, Turkey agreed to allow the United States...
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This new nuclear-armed US bomb may be the most dangerous weapon in America's...
The US just introduced a new type of bomb into its already extensive arsenal, and it may just be the most alarming US weapon yet, Zachary Keck writes for The National Interest.The new bomb is the...
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Watch the F-35 perform a low-alititude flyby at its first-ever civilian air show
The Experimental Aircraft Association's yearly Airventure Airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin had some special guests this year, as the astronomically expensive, often-delayed, and much-hyped F-35A Lightning...
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