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China Is Spending $100 Billion On 4,100 Miles Of New Railway Lines This Year
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will spend over $100 billion on more than 6,600 km (4,100 miles) of new railway lines this year, Xinhua news agency said, citing a senior industry official.The general manager...
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Russian Police Find Five Bodies Booby-Trapped With Explosives Near Sochi
Russia on Thursday launched a counter-terror operation after five bodies riddled with bullets were found in a southern region bordering the Winter Olympics host Sochi, less than a month before the...
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What It Takes To Serve In The Navy's Elite Warfare Boat Crew
Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) operators drive well-armed, fast boats in support of special ops missions including stealthy insertion and extraction of SEALs, clandestine...
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3 Reasons CEOs With Military Experience Make The Best Leaders
There's a new measure of how well prospective CEOs might lead a company: whether they served in the military.According to a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, military...
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An Embedded Journalist Describes The Most Traumatic Moments From Fallujah
The city of Fallujah is back in the news after being taken over by Al Qaeda militants, and now a third major battle over control of the city is on the horizon.Many veterans of the two major U.S....
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How Navy Special Ops Survive Training Missions In Freezing Water
During Navy Special Ops training, candidates complete exhaustive missions under extreme stress, limited sleep, and in freezing water conditions. For the last 25 years, the US military has used an...
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An Ominous Warning From 1991 About The Huge Risk Involving People Like Edward...
A NSA document from 1991 provides some insight on why Russian President Vladimir Putin called Edward Snowden a Christmas present after he landed in Moscow on June 23."In their quest to benefit from the...
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Britain Has Come To The Only Logical Solution To Preventing Police Abuses:...
The outrage over the death of alleged gang member Mark Duggan, shot twice by London police officers in 2011, won't go away. In the weeks after his death, riots spread from London to other cities around...
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Here's The Mangled Flak Jacket Of A Marine Sergeant Who Jumped On A Grenade...
The push to award Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta the nation's highest award after years of controversy is gaining ground from California Rep. Duncan Hunter (R), who released a previously-unseen photo...
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Security Concerns For Sochi After Russian Police Find Bullet-Ridden Bodies In...
Bizarre killings, for which no motive has yet been determined, heighten security concerns over Sochi Winter OlympicsRussian authorities said on Thursday that security forces had been put on combat...
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US Air Force Officers In Charge Of Launching Nuclear Missiles Are Being...
Two US Air Force officers in charge of launching nuclear missiles are under investigation for possessing illegal drugs, officials said Thursday, in the latest setback for the country's nuclear...
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Republicans Are Bashing Obama For Pulling Troops Out Of Iraq
Republicans reignited a political feud over Iraq, charging that advances by Al-Qaeda-linked forces proved President Barack Obama had squandered American blood in a rush to leave the country.The...
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US-Afghan Relations Hit New Low As Little Boy Accidentally Killed By US...
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Afghanistan have accidentally shot dead a four year old boy, Afghan officials said on Friday, the latest violence to strain ties between the uneasy allies.The...
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A Pakistani Teenager Died Tackling A Suicide Bomber Targeting His School
A Pakistani teenager has become a national hero after died tackling a suicide bomber targeting his school, BBC reports. Aitzaz Hasan, aged around 15, and his friends spotted a man wearing a suicide...
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The Pentagon Needs To Give Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta The Medal Of Honor He...
Nov. 15, 2004: It’s the second battle of Fallujah, and although they don’t really know it yet, the Marines and soldiers involved are enduring the worst combat since Vietnam.“Be proud of me, bro,”...
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Insane Photos Show Mexican Vigilantes Battling A Drug Cartel For Control Of A...
Mexico has long suffered blistering violence and crime at the hands of its homegrown drug cartels.Though the Mexican government has waged war on the cartels, the effort has struggled to go anywhere....
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US Spooks Worried 'Virtual Osama Bin Laden' Is A Real Threat
As signs of an al-Qaeda resurgence in Iraq grow stronger by the day, security analysts are engaged in a fierce debate over who's to blame: President Obama, who failed to keep troops in the region past...
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Obama's Flawed Syria Strategy In Two Powerful Graphics
The Obama administration's Syria policy has fallen apart, and two pithy images from inside the country provide some insight as to why.At the Friday protests in Kafranbel — considered the "Syrian...
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Haunting Photos From The Most Notorious Part Of Guantanamo Prison
New camps housing Guantanamo detainees are state-of-the art facilities modeled after American medium-security prisons.The buildings don't last long and are constantly being replaced, but the first...
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Bulldozer Crushes Marine Sleeping In Foxhole
The details of how a 20-year-old Marine died during a training accident back in March were recently released by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, reports the Marine Corps Times.Private First...
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