Iran Signals 'Desire' To End Nuclear Dispute With West
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it wanted to settle a decade-old nuclear dispute with the West that has raised fears of a new Middle East war, but the United States said it must back words with...
View Article9 Onion Headlines That Explain Syria Better Than Mainstream Media
The Syrian Civil war seemed to have entered the realm of grotesque parody when offhand comments from Secretary of State John Kerry shifted the entire global strategy with regard to the regime's...
View ArticleWhat It Looks Like When A Russian Spyplane Sees American Fighter Jets
Close encounters between Russian strategic bombers, spyplanes and Western fighter jets scrambled to intercept them have been quite frequent since the Cold War.Every month or so, a new image taken by...
View ArticleEither The Russians Are Brilliant Diplomats Or America Is Desperate
I confess I have been amazed and impressed with the chutzpah behind Russia’s most recent proposal for a US military strike to be forestalled by Syria’s agreement to place its chemical weapons stockpile...
View ArticleWe Seriously Need To Stop Calling Them All 'Drones'
They deliver sushi. They film cool videos. They capture the world's greatest hippie festivals. They even perform search and rescue missions that would otherwise be completed by a St. Bernard with a...
View ArticleThe Stories From Inside North Korea's Prison Camps Are Horrifying
The prison camps of Nazi Germany only existed for 12 years before their remaining survivors were freed following World War II. In the years that followed, many learned of horrifying conditions,...
View ArticleMercenary Hacker Group 'Hidden Lynx' Emerges As World's Most Potent Cyber Threat
Overshadowing even the most infamous state-sponsored cyber armies, a group of hacker-mercenaries has emerged as the world’s new and most potent threat to information security, according to a report...
View ArticleUCLA Professor Made A Disgustingly Dark Joke About Mass Shootings
UCLA professor of public policy and self-proclaimed "hemperor," Mark Kleiman is not afraid of controversy — but comments he made last spring to Guns.com go way too far.A tweet from Max Fisher sums it...
View ArticleUS Fighter Pilot's Midair Taunt To Iranian Pilots Was Straight Out Of 'Top Gun'
Earlier this year, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said that an IRIAF (Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force) F-4 Phantom combat plane attempted to intercept a U.S. MQ-1 drone flying in...
View ArticlePENTAGON OFFICIALS: Budget Uncertainty Is Wreaking Havoc On The Military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With lawmakers spoiling for another fight over federal spending ahead of the new fiscal year next month, senior Pentagon officials are trekking to Congress with a sobering...
View ArticleThe Awesome Responsibility Young Military Members Have Demonstrated In One...
You may remember the mysterious "legion of doom" conference call of Al Qaeda leadership reported last month in The Daily Beast. After that call (or Internet chat, it's not entirely clear), as reported...
View ArticleEXPERTS: Russian Rebels In Syria Pose 'Serious' Threat To 2014 Olympics
Islamist rebels from the Russian Caucasus who are fighting alongside Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in Syria could pose a serious security threat to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, analysts say.Russia has...
View ArticleMicrosoft Alum Writes Counterterrorism Paper That Nails The Real Threat
Nathan Myhrvold nails the new terror paradigm in the introduction to his latest paper:The novelty of our present situation is that modern technology can provide small groups of people with much greater...
View ArticleIran's President Calls Out US For 'Brute Force' Diplomacy
In what amounts to a dressing down of U.S. foreign policy, newly elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani runs the risk of looking like the sober man in the room.Following Vladimir Putin's lead,...
View ArticleHair-Raising Video Shows What It's Like To Fly In An F-16
This video is particularly interesting because it not only gives an idea of what flying in the backseat of an F-16 looks like, but let’s you hear some pilots talk: for instance, at a certain point you...
View ArticleIt's Been A Bad Week For Anyone Who Wants America To Keep Ruling The World
The last week has seen dramatic shifts in the U.S. position on Syria, the Middle East region and perhaps the world. A couple weeks back I predicted imminent TLAM strikes on the Assad regime’s chemical...
View ArticleThe US Navy Just Uploaded The Sickest Slo-Mo Video Of A Ballistic Missile...
The U.S. Navy recently conducted a test of its Aegis missile defense system off the coast of Hawaii.The USS Erie launched the missile, which intercepted the "most sophisticated target to date," reports...
View ArticleIran’s Air Defense Force Displays Indigenous Radar System Capable Of...
On Sunday Sept. 22, 2013, during the annual military parade in Tehran that marks the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, Iran displayed a new indigenous passive phased array radar...
View ArticleThe Military May Treat Its Most Recognizable Fighter Like A Cancerous Lump
The Air Force is entertaining the idea of getting rid of the A-10 Thunderbolt 2 as if it were a lump of financial cancer in the service's fiscal body.The idea is that the aging bird is a tool with only...
View ArticleHere's What You Can Buy At The Biggest Gun Show In The Southeast
Despite recent attempts to pass new national gun control legislation, the gun lovers of America are winning.This couldn't be more apparent than at the Lakeland Gun Show, the biggest gun show in the...
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