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The nuclear deal gives Tehran a free hand in the Middle East
President Obama views his deal with Iran as a stepping stone for a broader, strategic relationship with the Islamic Republic. "There is definitely a larger picture here,” an administration official...
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2 elite US airmen die after parachute-training accident
Two elite US airmen who served in combat zones around the world died from injuries sustained during a parachuting accident in Florida, the military said on Tuesday.The free-fall training accident...
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Gorgeous video shows an A-10 'Warthog' landing on a dirt runway in the desert
As already reported, two US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II jets belonging to the 75th Fighter Squadron performed austere landing operations at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, as...
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Obama: 'You'll see Hezbollah rockets falling on Tel Aviv' if the Iran nuclear...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told U.S. Jewish leaders it was likely rockets would fall on Tel Aviv if a nuclear deal with Iran was blocked and military action ensued, one of them said...
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High-ranking Marine Corps general: The US is in a 'stalemate' with ISIS
The veteran general nominated to lead the Marine Corps characterized the US campaign against Islamic State terrorists in Iraq and Syria as a “stalemate,” contradicting previous assertions from the...
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11 incredible pictures from Russia's International Army Games
Russia is under US and EU sanctions over its aggressive policies in Ukraine, and budget pressures have forced the Kremlin to radically scale back its production of high-end weaponry.But from August 1...
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On top of everything else, Iraq is heading for a financial crisis
Oil exports are by far the most important segment of Iraq’s economy, making up about half of the country’s GDP and 90% of government revenue.Given the state’s reliance on oil, investors pay careful...
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4 military disguises that were just crazy enough to actually work
1. That time French soldiers hid inside papier-mâché horse carcassesLooking back, trench warfare has to be one of the most insane methods of warfare ever carried out. Between the torrential mud,...
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Congress just revealed the number of troops in each US Special Operations...
Public perception of special operations is always interesting, if nothing else.One common misconception is that SEALs are the smallest, most elite special operations unit. SEALs are the scalpel and...
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The US is going to have a huge gap in the Persian Gulf for two months
At a time of heightened tensions throughout the Middle East over the Iran nuclear deal and the spread of ISIS, the US will be forced to recall its aircraft carrier from the Persian Gulf, Navy officials...
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Meet Iraq's 'Angel of Death' fighting against ISIS
Ayyub Faleh al-Rubaie, best known as Abu Azrael ("Angel of Death"), is a legendary Shia militiaman whose bravery and reputation have also earned him the title of "Iraq's Rambo." He has become the...
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This was the US Navy's cutting-edge stealth ship
In the early 1980s, Cold War tensions were at their post-Cuban Missile Crisis height, and the US was looking for any strategic advantage it could get against its Soviet adversary.Although...
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Here's what the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima would do to...
Seventy years ago, the US Air Force's "Enola Gay" B-29 Superfortress bomber dropped a 15-kiloton nuclear bomb, code-named Little Boy, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.The blast, which was the first...
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Putin isn't serious about actually getting a peace agreement in Ukraine
Mykola Azarov's call for early elections and "total regime change" in Kiev was a bit of a head scratcher.The ousted Ukrainian prime minister, after all, is deeply unpopular in his homeland and — with...
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US officials: Russian hackers knocked Pentagon email networks offline and...
A Russian cyberattack around July 25 against the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff's email has resulted in the mail system being offline for almost two weeks, US officials told NBC.The attack affected...
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11 photos that show why the SR-71 Blackbird was one of the best jets of all time
When it comes to curb appeal, few airplanes in history can match the look of the SR-71 “Blackbird.” And nothing in the Air Force’s inventory — past or present — can beat its signature performance...
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13 extraordinary photographs of allied snipers during WWII
A sniper demonstrates his camouflage (note: German Waffen-SS Camo Pattern: named unofficially "Early Plane Tree") at a sniper school in a French village, 27 July 1944.A sniper applying camouflage face...
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What it's like to rub shoulders with Chinese student spies
I got to mingle with a lot of interesting people while majoring in political science at Columbia University.As someone who served in American Special Operations units and who studies these types of...
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Watch Turkish jets attack ISIS and Kurdish positions in Syria and Iraq
On July 24, Turkey launched “Operation Martyr Yalcin” against ISIS positions in Syria and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in Northern Iraq.The air strikes began in the early morning a day...
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Here's how the crew of the Enola Gay crew recalled the first atomic weapons...
Shortly after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay's tail gunner Bob Caron wrote his wife that the crew had just received a medal and she'd be reading about what they...
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