The New Abraham Lincoln Movie Doesn't Tell You He Made It His Mission To...
When we read Krislyn Placide's piece on Lincoln's modernization of war technology in Popular Science, we were fascinated.It's no secret that Lincoln went with General Grant to lead the war because the...
View ArticleISRAELI SOLDIER: Here's What Will Happen If Hamas Keeps Firing Rockets
An Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldier who has served for the last 3 years and will be discharged in January went on Reddit and answered questions about the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza.The...
View ArticleThis One Plane Has Been Delivering Top Notch US Intel For More Than 60 Years
When the U-2 "Dragon Lady" debuted in 1957 it was an astonishing piece of technological achievement.Able to fly reconnaissance from more than 13-miles above the earth, gather data through all weather...
View ArticleAn Israeli Reader Takes Us Inside A Tel Aviv Bomb Shelter
Israel and Gaza have been trading blows for a few days now, and there have been many reports of air raid sirens in Tel Aviv.What we at Business Insider here learned, is that many modern Israeli...
View ArticleIsraeli Wedding Video Shows Missile Defense Taking Out Rockets
Never having lived in Israel I can only imagine the cautionary acceptance that must come with being under the constant threat of attack. Most apartment buildings have bomb shelters that are supposed to...
View Article36 Incredible Hours On The Aircraft Carrier USS Eisenhower [PHOTOS]
The U.S. currently has 11 aircraft carriers that hold about 5,600 sailors and aviators apiece. While not all of them are deployed at the same time, the ones at home are training, undergoing...
View ArticleIsrael Bombs Media Buildings In Gaza
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza early Sunday morning wounded at least eight journalists, Agence France-Presse reports.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted that the targets included "a communications...
View ArticleObama Supporters Turn On Him For His Support Of Israel
All the people who two weeks ago were ecstatically cheering the re-election of Barack Obama are now having paroxysms of fury over Israel. Where the blogs, Twitterfeeds and daily conversations of these...
View ArticleUS Military Battling To Stay In Afghanistan Past 2014
Afghanistan and the US have opened talks to keep American troops in the country after most Nato forces go home in 2014, but the thorny question of immunity for American soldiers, which in effect ended...
View ArticleGo Ahead And Laugh, But Yoga Changed The Way I Work Out After The War
Before the war I worked out to Metallica. Battery, Master of Puppets, and Hero of the Day, helped me disregard the screaming of my muscles and work harder.At the gym at Forward Operating Base (FOB)...
View ArticleCrowds Of Israelis Are Showing Up To Cheer On The Iron Dome System
There is a new attraction in Tel Aviv, drawing crowds of cheering supporters. It is Israel's fifth Iron Dome battery, whose deployment was accelerated at the weekend to position it in the south of the...
View ArticleEgypt's President Morsi: 'Truce Between Gaza And Israel Coming Soon'
President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt is saying that a truce between Israel and Gaza is on the horizon, Al Arabiya reports.Morsi has been closely related with talks between Hamas in Gaza and Israeli...
View ArticleIsraeli Leaders Made Some Astonishing Comments Over The Weekend
Israel stepped up its strikes on Gaza this weekend in response to a week's worth of missiles launched from Gaza militants, but it wasn't just the strikes that stepped up.Several prominent Israeli...
View ArticleAnderson Cooper Almost Hit The Deck On Live TV After This Explosion In Gaza
CNN's Anderson Cooper is renowned for getting into the thick of it when he covers stories in foreign lands. He once saved a Haitian boy on live television (and suffered a small scolding from media...
View ArticlePalestinian Blogger: This Is What It Sounds Like When Drones Are Constantly...
Rana Baker, a Palestinian blogger and contributor to Electronic Infitada, has been tweeting updates from an undisclosed location in Gaza as Israel continues its offensive on the strip for the sixth...
View ArticleThe Obvious Problems With The Ceasefire Demands Of Both Israel And Hamas
Egyptian officials are currently attempting to broker a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, and although Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is optimistic, it's not clear how each sides demands...
View ArticleREPORT: Jihadi Hackers Email Israel's Military 'Tel Aviv Will Be A Ball Of Fire'
Islamic Jihad allegedly sent an email message to 5000 Israeli soldiers: 'Gaza will be the graveyard of your soldiers and Tel Aviv will be a ball of fire.'The organization operates out of Gaza under...
View ArticleNetanyahu Already Explained Why Israel Isn't Worried About US Response To...
The other day we detailed how Israel couldn't have chosen a better time to start a Hamas offensive given the lull in external pressure.In 2001 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, unaware that a...
View ArticleChina Is Selling Weapons Systems Using Video Of A Simulated Taiwan Attack
A video to promote Chinese a weapons system simulated the bombing of a Taiwan military base, Taiwan News Channel Focus reported.The system—which integrated M20 short-range ballistic missiles, A200...
View ArticleThe CIA Probably Had Authority To Hold Prisoners At The Secret Benghazi Annex
In October Paula Broadwell told an audience that the CIA in Benghazi "had taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner" at its secret annex.The CIA flatly denied the claim, saying that the agency...
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