Apple Rejects The App For Tracking Drone Strikes
Apple has rejected an app that would alert users to drone strikes. The app would also keep an active log of strikes, allowing users to plot areas of interest. CNET reported that Apple rejected Drone+...
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Green-On-Blue Attacks Have Gotten So Bad In Afghanistan That Troops Are...
U.S. military units have resorted to building hardened safe rooms, or what they call "Alamos," to protect themselves from potential attacks from the soldiers and police officers they are training,...
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Gamers Use Their Thumbs To Help Injured Troops Survive On The Battlefield
Video gamers are lending their hands, in particular their thumbs, to battlefield medics. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is known for bizarre crowd sourcing techniques and odd...
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US Man Pleads Guilty To Attempting To Sell Secret Information To The Chinese...
An American who worked as a guard at a new U.S. consulate in China has pleaded guilty to trying to sell classified information to the Chinese government. Bryan Underwood, 32, reported offered to sell...
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The Taliban Have Started Beheading Scores Of Innocent People Again
The news out of Afghanistan is that the Taliban beheaded 17 men and women who had gathered for a mixed-gender social event with music and dancing. This, of course, is not the first time the excesses...
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The President's Executive Order On Military Health Care Is Too Little Too Late
It's certainly planned, inadvertently ironic, that President Barack Obama chose the 2nd anniversary of the end of the Iraq War to visit Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, to announce an executive order...
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If You Want A Classic WW2 Rifle, The Government Is Selling
Guess what? You can buy WW2 rifles from the government. The "Civilian Marksmanship Program" is a private non-profit, but the government classifies it as a "government corporation hybrid." A...
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There's A Secret Ruling That The NSA's Domestic Spying Violates The 4th...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is suing the Justice Department for details of last month's ruling by a secretive U.S. court that National Security Agency's domestic spying program violated...
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16 Charts On The Booming Global Small Arms Trade
The value of the arms trade has DOUBLED since 2006, according to the Small Arms Survey 's newest report: Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets. The Swiss-based survey valued the global trade of...
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Russia Wants Its Own Hypersonic Bomber By The End Of The Decade
Russian leaders have taken notice of the U.S. Air Force’s plans to build a next generation bomber, announcing they have set their sites on building a hypersonic bomber. Russian Deputy Prime Minister...
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Studies Like This Helping Brain Rattled Troops May Help Everyone Stay...
Posit Science today announced the launch of BrainHQ, its next-generation computerized brain fitness training system. Designed to improve the cognitive performance of virtually everyone who uses it,...
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Hundreds Of Afghan Soldiers Were Fired For Their Ties To Insurgents
As the vetting process for 350,000 Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) moves along, already hundreds of Afghan soldiers have been detained and fired for their ties to local insurgencies. The...
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Thousand Of Russian Soldiers Are Being Killed And The Kremlin Has No Idea...
The past month has brought a surge in reporting on conflicts, skirmishes and violence in the Caucasus region of southern Russia. These are not only insurgencies against Russia, but also a hostage...
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25 Things We Learned From SEAL Book 'No Easy Day'
Former SEAL Team 6 operative Matt Bissonnette's book on the Bin Laden raid, No Easy Day, came out Tuesday and we've read the whole thing. The 300-page book contains few major revelations, but it is an...
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Libyan Man Describes Horrific Experience Of Being Waterboarded By US Troops
Earlier today, Human Rights Watch released a report in which it charges the CIA and UK security forces of serious human rights violations. The 154-page report, Delivered Into Enemy Hands: U.S.-Led...
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Israel Dials Down Tough Talk After Meeting With Americans
In the coded landscape of Israel's intentions regarding a military strike against Iran, the defence minister, Ehud Barak, made a public statement on Thursday which may signify a shift away from...
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Exxon Explores 'Very Promising' Oil And Gas Fields In Afghanistan
KABUL/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - More top-tier energy companies are likely to join the race to explore for oil and gas in Afghanistan after the world's biggest publicly traded firm, Exxon Mobil, changed...
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Prince Harry Begins A Four-Month Combat Tour As An Apache Gunner Today
Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, has begun a four-month combat tour as a gunner on an Apache attack helicopter, AP reports. Capt. Harry Wales, as he is known in the military, will...
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This Is What A US Strike On Iran's Nuclear Facilities Could Look Like
Washington D.C. foreign policy think tank the Center For Strategic & International Studies took a long hard look at what it really means to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions, what it would take, and...
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Judge Rules Every Guantanamo Bay Detainee Has A Right To See A Lawyer
A judge ruled Thursday the federal government has no right to decide which Guantanamo Bay detainees have access to lawyers and which don't. Chief U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled Guantanamo...
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