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The 2013 Defense Bill Was Unanimously Approved For $17 Million More Than...
The US Senate unanimously passed the Pentagon's 2013 budget, despite a political impasse over debt reduction that could see huge cuts to military spending next year.After months of negotiations,...
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The Assad Regime Is Lashing And Absolutely Pounding Damascus With Airstrikes...
Warplanes on Wednesday pounded suburbs of Damascus as regime forces fought to reclaim rebel-held areas of the capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The Britain-based watchdog, which...
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Syria's Chemical Weapon Threat Is Real Enough That Turkey Is Getting Patriot...
Nato has agreed to deploy Patriot missiles to defend Turkey as Britain warned Syria of "serious consequences" if the regime were to use chemical weapons.Arriving for a Nato foreign ministers' meeting...
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The Fort Hood Shooting Case Has Become Even More Of A Travesty
The second thing Army Maj. Nidal Hasan did was grow a beard.The first thing he did was allegedly stalk around Ft. Hood, Texas, shouting "Allahu Akbar" and shooting 42 people, 13 of whom died, until...
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Here's What Life Is Really Like In Post-Apocalyptic Afghanistan
People told me I was crazy for doing it.I hadn't even opened the package containing my shiny new NYU Master's in Journalism and I was already heading to Afghanistan. It had been a couple of years since...
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Bashar Al-Asad May Stick Around A Bit Longer Than Expected
The United States Senate has issued an order to the Pentagon to come up with a "military options" for the Syrian Civil War.The options must come within 90 days of the enactment of the National Defense...
View ArticleTom Ricks Takes A Swipe At Today's Crop Of Army Generals
Fresh off his Fox News jabfest, Veteran Defense Reporter and author of the book "The Generals," Tom Ricks, appeared on PBS Newshour and said American generals are "well-trained, but ill-prepared" for...
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The New York Times Gets Slammed For Blowing Off A Huge WikiLeaks Hearing
The New York York Times "missed the boat" by not covering the first public testimony of Bradley Manning on Friday, according to the Times' public editor Margaret Sullivan.Over the past few days, a...
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US Officials Say They're Sure Syrian Bombs Are Loaded With Chemical Weapons
Unnamed U.S. officials tell NBC News that the Syrian military has loaded the precursor chemicals for sarin nerve gas into aerial bombs.The report comes hours after French weekly magazine Le Point...
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NASA's 'Spooky Plane' Is On The Way Back To The US After Its Afghanistan Mission
It's been far too long since we've checked in with our friend David Cenciotti at The Aviationist and we're never disappointed with what his readers send his way.The plane in the picture above is a...
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The Only Way To Survive A Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
With word out from NBC last night that Syria loaded chemical agents onto bombs, the potential human rights crisis became a bit more grave.Of course it was an unnamed source who filled NBC in, but word...
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Washington Police Seem Pretty Chill About The Official Legalization Of Marijuana
Washington state's Initiative 502– which legalizes up to one ounce of marijuana for those 21 or over – went into effect at midnight on Thursday, and Washington police seem to be taking the transition...
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These Russian Warships In Syria Are A Prime Example How The Kremlin's...
Recently there have been multiple reports that Russia may be backing away from its support of Syrian President Bash al-Assad, but Moscow's warships seem to be singing a different tune.Agence...
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One Former Juicer Describes His Insane Life On Steroids
There's something about South Florida that prompts many residents to hone their physiques, without buying into that healthy living thing found in places like Southern California.I spent some time on...
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Here's Why The West Will Almost Certainly Intervene In Syria
The U.S. is likely to formally label Syrian fighters with the Al Nusra Front a 'terrorist' organization, and effectively set back any possible victory over Bashar Al-Assad.Unless, of course, the West...
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Syrian Opposition's Best Frontline Fighters Are About To Be Declared...
The U.S. State Department is planning to designate the al-Nusra Front— a highly effective jihadist Syrian rebel group — as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, Elise Labott and Tim Lister of CNN report....
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NDAA Opponents Just Won Their Biggest Victory Since The Blocking Of...
The Michigan House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill today that would prevent any state cooperation with federal agents attempting to detain people without due process in Michigan, The Tenth...
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Iran's Latest Drone Capture Shows Why We Need Next-Gen Drones
First: The Pentagon has announced that the drone Iran captured is likely from the U.S.Second: Iran claims to have spoofed it.Spoofing is when a group of hackers overloads that connection and then...
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US Marines May Be Adding Meditation To Their Pre-Deployment Arsenal
The Marine Corps are considering adding meditation classes as a preventative and therapeutic method for handling the rigors of combat, Patrick Hruby of The Washington Times reports."Mindfulness-based...
View ArticlePearl Harbor Vet Tells Us How He Survived One Of The Worst Attacks In US...
It's easy to imagine that Daniel Fruchtman tells stories today with the same energy he did when he was a kid, fresh in the Army, and stationed at Hawaii in 1941, just months prior to Japan's attack.As...
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