Swedish Army Releases Super-Cinematic Recruiting Video
The Swedish military recently reached out to a couple of young, hip, talented producers in Sweden's electro music industry, and now their new recruiting commercial for amphibious assaulters looks like...
View ArticlePakistan, India Battle Hard For Power As US Forces Dwindle In Afghanistan
Summary: India offers economic and security aid to Afghanistan, Pakistan offers Taliban. Are these arch-rivals being being constructive or playing out their mutual suspicions…?Call me a cynic, but is...
View ArticleHamas Got The Much Better Deal In The Ceasefire With Israel
An Egypt-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was announced today with both sides claiming victory, but it appears Hamas may have gotten the better deal.Here's the key part of the agreement:...
View ArticleUS Military Now Considering Sending Even More Ships To Mediterranean
Senior U.S. military officers are considering increasing the American military presence in the east Mediterranean, Barbara Starr of CNN reports."From there, you can get to a lot of places in a short...
View ArticleDetails Of Osama Bin Laden's Secret Burial At Sea Revealed In Military Emails
Details surrounding one of the more controversial details of Osama bin Laden's 2011 takedown are starting to emerge thanks to an Information Request by the Associated Press.Following the Abbottabad...
View ArticleHamas Says 'Israel Failed In Its Goals' And Gives Iran Huge Thanks
Just hours into a tenuous ceasefire agreement Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said Israel failed to achieve its goals thanked Egypt and Iran for their support during the recent conflict.From AFP:"After...
View ArticleThe Killing Of Two Gaza Cameramen Raises Questions About Israel's Choice Of...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The unprecedented killing of two cameramen for Gaza's Hamas TV station in a missile strike raised questions about whom Israel considers to be militant operatives, and thus...
View ArticleSecret D-Day Code Found On A Dead Pigeon Has Historians Scrambling For WWII...
Historians from GCHQ are appealing for the veteran codebreakers of Bletchley Park to volunteer for one last act of service for their country: cracking the D-Day carrier pigeon cipher that has stumped...
View ArticleChina's Aircraft Carrier Hit A Huge Milestone
Amid the recent political shift within Chinese politics, the effort at modernizing and advancing its military has remained unchanged.Minnie Chan of the South China Morning Post reports that to...
View ArticleOfficials: Israel's Gaza Offensive Was Training For A Possible Fight With Iran
Israel's eight-day Gaza offensive was a dry run for any future armed confrontation with Iran, U.S. and Israeli officials told The New York Times.“In Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel was not...
View Article7 Essential Tips For Not Getting Hacked On 'Cyber' Monday
It can happen to anyone and it's really pretty easy: all you have to do is enter your information into a suspect field or two and then — ZANG! — suddenly your bank's calling you because you're trying...
View ArticleGovernments Prosecute Online Activists As They Battle For Control Of The...
Whatever one thinks of WikiLeaks, it is an indisputable fact that the group has never been charged by any government with any crime, let alone convicted of one. Despite that crucial fact, WikiLeaks has...
View ArticleThe 37-Year-Old USS Nimitz Is Sidelined After Spending A Year Undergoing Repairs
Launched just over a year before the bicentennial of the United States in 1975, the USS Nimitz has been diagnosed with mechanical problems that will keep it sidelined for at least two months.See the...
View ArticleJapan Is Running Out Of Ninjas
Ninjas were some of the world's first elite commandos, capable of targeted assassinations as well as espionage in Japan's feudal times.Now, there's only a handful left.Mariko Oi of the BBC reports that...
View ArticleHere's What Black Friday Looks Like In Afghanistan
A hilarious photo posted on Reddit shows what America's more than 60,000 deployed soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors think when they hear all this news about Black Friday and ravenous shoppers.It...
View ArticleThe People Who Attacked The US Mission In Benghazi Are Getting Off Scot-Free
Gunman seen participating in the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi walk freely in the eastern Libyan city two months later, The Associated Press reports.Key security commanders and witnesses say...
View ArticleThese Next Generation Drones Will Do Even More With No Human Input At All
As Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) become more sophisticated their, capacity for abuse only grows.Governments are already having a hard time resisting the temptation to use UAV's for striking enemies...
View ArticleBoth Benghazi And The Petraeus Scandal Suggest US Media Is Way Too Cozy With...
If there is just one lesson to take away from the Benghazi and Petraeus affairs it's that the American media is way too cozy with heads of state.Immediately following the Benghazi crisis, U.S. media...
View ArticleThe Complex Web Of Alliances In The Middle East Will Blow Your Mind
The 20-month civil war in Syria and the eight-day Israeli offensive in Gaza highlights the often contradictory web of alliances that fuel conflicts in the Middle East.Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and...
View ArticleRussia Sends Warships Off Coast Of Gaza In Response To Israel-Palestine Tensions
Russian warships have dropped anchor off the coast of Gaza in the case that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict escalates, a Russian Navy Command source told Voice of Russia.The Russian Navy continuously...
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