Huawei, The Chinese Equipment Maker Accused Of Spying, Has Long Relied On IBM...
This week, a congressional report warned the U.S. government and American companies from doing business with Chinese network-equipment maker Huawei, saying it benefitted from state assistance and...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren And Scott Brown Went Toe-To-Toe On Military Budget Cuts, And...
Massachusetts' Republican Senator Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren faced off Wednesday for the third of four debates in the state's hotly-contested Senate race. In a marked...
View ArticleBritain Should Be Terribly Grateful The Huge BAE/EAD Defense Merger Failed
If there is one lesson to learn from the spectacular collapse of the proposed merger between BAE Systems and EADS, it is that we jeopardise our special defence and intelligence-sharing relationship...
View ArticleYesterday's Plane Incident Changes Everything Between Turkey And Russia
Russia and Syria have condemned Turkey for forcing a civilian Syrian plane traveling from Moscow to Damascus to land in the Turkish capital last night on suspicions it was carrying military equipment....
View ArticleThe Soviet Union Planned To Leave 100 Nukes On Cuba After The Cuban Missile...
The Soviet Union secretly planned to leave 100 nuclear weapons on Cuba after the end of the crisis but were so scared by Fidel Castro's instability that they made up a law to retrieve them. Documents...
View ArticleWatch What It Looks Like When Marines Get Ambushed While Hunting IED's
Recently we at BI Military and Defense received an email with an unclassified document detailing the growing threat of improvised bombs in Afghanistan — the same day, this video came out of Marines in...
View ArticleBiden Slams Ryan On Israel: 'I've Been Friends With Bibi Netanyahu For 39 Years'
Vice President Joe Biden really got rolling when tonight's debate turned to the Obama administration's policies toward Israel and Iran. Responding to Ryan's claim that President Barack Obama opted to...
View ArticleOne Of These Three Soldiers Is The Luckiest Guy In The US Army
Specialist Devin Hagar had been in Afghanistan only long enough to go out on his first patrol when his platoon came under heavy fire and his squad took evasive measures. India's Jagran Post reports...
View ArticleWhen Biden And Ryan Talk Sequestration Tonight They're Talking About These...
Whether you've heard about it or not, sequestration is a big deal to a lot of people and is directly tied to the economy. When the subcommittee failed to agree on $1.2 trillion in budget cuts last...
View ArticleOne Canadian Spy Confessed To Trashing The Most Top-Secret Intelligence...
A Canadian naval intelligence officer has pleaded guilty to spying for Russia over four-and-a-half years, Steven Chase and Jane Taber of The Globe and Mail report. Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Delisle, 41,...
View ArticleLeon Panetta Explains The Need For The Military's Aggressive New Rules For...
The United States faces a growing threat of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor" and has drafted new rules for the military that would enable it to move aggressively against digital attacks, Defense Secretary Leon...
View ArticleThe US Has Drafted New Military Rules Against A Potential 'Cyber-Pearl Harbor'
The United States faces a growing threat of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor" and has drafted new rules for the military that would enable it to move aggressively against digital attacks, Defense Secretary Leon...
View ArticleHezbollah Promises Drone Invasions Will Become A Way Of Life For Israel
Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia, boasted yesterday it had infiltrated Israeli airspace with a drone, flying it near to a nuclear installation before it was shot down. Only hours after...
View ArticleUS Troops In Jordan Are Preparing A Chemical Attack Defense Against Syria
RUSSEIFEH, Jordan (AP) — From the edge of a steep mountain overlooking a desert compound built into an old rock quarry, machine gunfire echoes just outside hangars where U.S. special operations forces...
View ArticleAn Unflinching Account Of How The Syrian Town Maaret Al-Numan Was Taken By...
Blown-up buildings, deserted streets and corpses of regime soldiers bear testimony to a fierce 48-hour battle before the town of Maaret al-Numan fell to Syrian rebels. The capture of Maaret al-Numan...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Is Prepared To Act On Reports Iran Cyber-Attacked Persian Gulf...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former U.S. government official says American authorities firmly believe that Iranian hackers, likely supported by the Tehran government, were responsible for recent cyberattacks...
View ArticleThousands Of People In Mali Are Begging For Help From The United Nations
Several thousand people marched in Mali's capital Bamako on Thursday to call for armed intervention by a West African regional force to help wrest back the vast north of the country from armed...
View ArticleThe Guardian Takes A Close Look At Who's Actually Fighting In Syria
Syrian government Russia has retained its historical role as the key weapons supplier to Bashar al-Assad's regime over the past 18 months. It is believed to have sent at least three shipments of heavy...
View ArticleMexican Cartels Are Flooding US Cities With High Quality Meth
Mexican cartels are pumping exceptionally cheap, high quality methamphetamine into the United States, Jim Salter of The Associated Press reports. Cartel meth—which is 90 percent pure—now accounts for...
View ArticleDARPA Just Paid $2.6 Million For A Skintight Smart Suit That's Straight Out...
Exoskeletons with hydraulic arms and piston powered legs are nothing terribly new, Raytheon's got a new version it showed off this summer, but this Warrior Web program proposed by DARPA is a first....
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