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Join Us On This 30-Ton Amphibious Assault Craft As We Storm The Beaches
I remember like it was yesterday, though it was 2003 when I was standing inside the well deck of the USS Essex amphibious assault ship. I was a U.S. Marine, sailing off the coast of Hawaii on a...
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The Deputy Secretary Of Defense Is Doing An Incredibly Classy Thing To Stand...
Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carterannounced to the Senate that if his employees in the Department of Defense suffered a pay cut because of Sequestration, he'd voluntarily give the Treasury the...
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Israel Grants First Golan Heights Oil Drilling License To Powerful US Company
Israel has granted a U.S. company the first license to explore for oil and gas in the occupied Golan Heights, John Reed of the Financial Times reports.A local subsidiary of the New York-listed company...
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The Entire Fleet Of F-35s Has Been Grounded
An engine blade crack is the newest culprit in the ongoing F-35 saga.Reutersreports that the crack, found on a test aircraft in California, prompted officials to ground the entire fleet of 51 jets as a...
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Reports That Mexican Drug Kingpin Died In Shootout Almost Certainly False
Twitter has been roiling after a Guatemala official told reporters Thursday that one of two victims of a gunfight looked like the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman.The rumor and...
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Now 6 Tanks Are Leaking Radioactive Waste At America's Most Contaminated Site
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says six underground tanks at the Hanford Nuclear reservation are leaking, the Associated Press reports.The problem, which Inslee called "disturbing," has been brewing for a...
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There's An Even Worse Scandal Hidden In Obama's Secret Drone Memo
The Obama administration's classified legal memos justifying targeted killings contain secret protocols with foreign governments and “case-specific” details of strikes, two sources aware of their...
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How A Photon Could Protect America From The World's Most Sophisticated Bad Guys
Earlier today we posted how the Chinese military's exploit of America's grid software could conceivably provide them with a switch to turn out our lights, for months.The resulting catastrophe can be...
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Republicans May Have Found A Brilliant Way To Win The Sequester
Senate aides confirmed Friday that Republicans are coalescing around an alternative to the sequester that would keep the lower spending levels in place, but give federal agencies greater flexibility to...
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The Country Formerly Known As Syria
“MY COUNTRY is being destroyed,” sobs Ahmad, a student from the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor who joined the protests when they began in March 2011. “The regime is killing us, many of the opposition...
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CIA Agents Sleep Around All The Time, Says Ex-Spook
Your boss is caught in the act of "going at it" with a junior colleague, and it's perfectly acceptable.That's the espionage division of the CIA, according to former clandestine operations officer Reuel...
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There Are Four Disturbing Unanswered Questions About The Mumbai Terror Attack
The 35-year prison sentence imposed on David Coleman Headley, a terrorist scout and Pakistani spy convicted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has closed the U.S. chapter of a case with explosive...
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Growing Number Of Gunmakers Threaten To Boycott States That Pass Gun Laws
A growing number of firearm firms in the US are vowing to reverse-boycott local and state governments that enact any new infringements on the Second Amendment.Vowing to close what they're calling "the...
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How To Save Syria From Al Qaeda
Tactically, President Obama is operating true to form in Syria; he’s wisely avoiding ever creeping military measures on behalf of rebels, many of whom might well turn out to be even worse than the...
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The Crew Of The USS Barry Is Already Battered By Defense Cuts
When we visited the USS Barry, the ship and its crew were feverishly preparing for a huge inspection, and an upcoming overseas deployment.Short-staffed and overworked, the crew pulled the 20-year-old...
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Americans Would Rather Cut Military Spending Than Social Security And Medicare
A majority of American voters said in a new poll conducted by The Hill that cutting the nation's debt is more important than continuing to fund domestic and military programs at current levels.The poll...
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Pablo Escobar's Right-Hand Man Explains Why The Drug War Is Unwinnable
In a five-part series about lessons learned from the failed war on drugs, Jochen-Martin Gutsch and Juan Moreno of Der Spiegel explore possible solutions to a campaign that's had "devastating...
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Kim Jong-Un Monitors 'War' Drill As South Korea Introduces First Female...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw a live-fire artillery drill aimed at simulating an "actual war", state media said Tuesday, a day after South Korea swore in its first female president."An...
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The Curious Case Of Staff Sgt. Brandon Parsons
Sometimes it takes genuine injustice to put things in perspective. I was recently reminded of this during my clash with a prominent floral service that failed to deliver a chocolates order on...
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Radio Jamming — Not A Thing Of The Past
AMID all the fevered talk and high-tech details surrounding the “cyber cold war” that China seems to be waging—and perhaps winning—against America and many other nations, there is something...
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