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An Unsanctioned Journey Into The Heart Of Iran
Calvin Sun travels the world on a tiny budget, but cobbles together the most amazing journeys. As a full-time medical student based in New York, he also runs the blog Monsoon Diaries, showing people...
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The Air Force's Secret Space Plane Came Back To Earth And Still Nobody Knows...
Cloaked in a bit of mystery and more than a little speculation, the U.S. Air Force's X-37B robotic space plane touched down in California this weekend after 15 months in orbit. Originally used by...
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Russia Is Reportedly Filling Two Of These Assault Ships With Marines And...
Fearing for its naval base and citizens on the ground in the conflict ridden nation, Russia is reportedly sending two amphibious assault ships to Syria. Oliver Carmichael at The Telegraph reports an...
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The June 1 Attack In Afghanistan Was Much Worse Than The US Military Let On
The U.S. military withheld information of fatalities from a June 1 attack on a U.S. outpost near the Afghanistan-Pakistan as two Americans were killed, reports Joshua Partlow and Craig Whitlock of the...
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Google Earth May Have Exposed An Unknown Drone At Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works
Back on December 4, the same day the U.S. allegedly lost control of an RQ-170 Sentinel drone over Iran, the guys at Open Source GEOINT were messing around with Google Earth and pointed the client near...
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Egypt's Military Is Making A Huge Last-Minute Power Grab
Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has issued a new constitutional declaration giving it veto powers over the drafting of a new constitution and removing the president as...
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The Most Staggering Moments From A New Documentary About Military Rape
A new documentary by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick attempts to shed light on what's becoming known as America's best kept secret: the epidemic of rape in the military. Inspired by a 2007 Salon...
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Here's What Happens When A Feisty Bomb Sniffing Dog Gets Shipped Off To...
This is Part II of this series. If you haven’t read Part I you might want to read that post first. Spectacular brown jagged mountains surrounded the Konduz Airfield in northern Afghanistan,...
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BY THE NUMBERS: Why The Mexican Drug War Should Keep You Awake At Night
Felipe Calderon sent 50,000 soldiers after the drug cartels when he became president of Mexico in 2006. So far the offensive to root out top drug traffickers, combined with conflicts between cartels...
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Here's What Will Get Axed In The Massive US Defense Cuts [Presentation]
The Senate Armed Services Committee came out with their fiscal year 2013 defense authorization bill, and we've been spending the time since reading the massive tome to find out what's going down in...
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Israel Is Lining Up Tanks Along The Egyptian Border
Israel has begun deploying tanks along the frontier with Egypt, according to the Telegraph. The move comes after an Israeli civilian worker building a security fence was killed in a terrorist attack...
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Attack Helicopters From Moscow Are On Their Way Back To Syria Aboard A...
If Russia’s stance towards the Assad regime is at all softening, it certainly has a peculiar way of demonstrating this, as RIA-Novosti reported Thursday that three Mi-25 gunships are en route to the...
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Check Out China's Impenetrable Underground Military Bunkers
Aerial bombardments weighed heavy on the minds of Chinese military planners in the taut decades of the Cold War, and protecting their fledgling jet fleet was of paramount importance. To keep their...
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Giving Up The Booze And Learning How To Sleep After Combat Tours In Iraq
I slept like a baby in Iraq. In the five years since I got back, I haven't slept well. The first two years were the worst. Constant pain in my neck and back. I thought it was my bed. Well, last night...
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The Army's New Surveillance Blimp Is The Size Of A Football Field And Can...
Achieving the high ground in battle has been paramount since men first took up arms against one another. From Caesar, to Napoleon, to Gettysburg, facing your foe from above has always proven...
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Iran Drafted A Bill To Block Tankers In The Strait Of Hormuz
The European Union enacted Oil sanctions against Iran Sunday. It was the largest round of sanctions in OPEC history since the Libyan sanctions. Now, Iran is serious. The price of milk, eggs, and...
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This Is What It Was Like When I Got Teargassed In The Middle Of A Protest...
Every Friday since December 2009, residents of the town of Nabi Salih, not far from the booming Palestinian city of Ramallah, gather together with journalists, supporters, and onlookers from around...
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The US Government Keeps Raising Its 'Secret Keeping' Budget
The amount spent by U.S. government agencies to classify information rose $1.2 billion to $11.36 billion last year, but the estimate leaves out key intelligence operations. The Information Security...
View ArticleWATCH: Brazilian Air Force Jets Fly Too Low And Shatter The Windows Of Their...
A couple pilots down in Brazil are in a whole lot of trouble. Jets from the Brazilian Air Force flew over the country's capital during a flag-changing ceremony, and apparently they flew way too low....
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If You're An American Taxpayer — These Are Your Most Recent Defense Purchases
June may have ended with devastating storms to the D.C. area, but not even expansive power outages could stop the pentagon from spending billions on acquisition and procurement last week. All told,...
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