Israel Faces Increasing Danger As Assad Weakens
In July 2011 Israeli President Shimon Peres said that "Assad must go."But Syria's southern neighbor is facing an increasingly dangerous situation on its borders as the rule of Syrian President Bashar...
View ArticleFORMER WIKILEAKS SUPPORTER: Assange Risks Becoming An 'Australian L Ron Hubbard'
In the seven years since he founded WikiLeaks, Julian Assange's relationships with a number of his former collaborators and supporters have broken down, with each side variously claiming broken...
View ArticleRand Paul Warns Of Unintended Consequences In Iran And Syria
Rand Paul appeared at the Heritage Foundation Wednesday morning to give his break-out speech detailing his vision for American foreign policy.Though the speech lacked in specifics, Paul made some savvy...
View ArticleJoe Scarborough Accuses Obama Of Acting Like An 'American King' With His...
Joe Scarborough and other "Morning Joe" panelists ripped into President Barack Obama for the administration's drone program on Wednesday, comparing him to a king who can decide the fate of American...
View Article14 Things You Should Know About Enlisting In The US Marines
When I first walked into my recruiting office in Bristol, CT, I didn't have a clue what to expect.I had seen military recruiters sometimes at my high school, but hadn't approached them or asked...
View ArticleThis Drone War Leads Back To A Single Legal Paragraph
In his second inaugural address, President Barack Obama declared that “a decade of war is now ending.”White House press secretary Jay Carney later said there was “no question” that the U.S. conflict...
View ArticleBizarre Video Shows Syrian Soldiers Dancing To Usher's 'Yeah!' After Battle
A video posted online apparently shows Syrian soldiers Usher’s song “Yeah!” after a battle, according to the Associated Press.In full gear they dance and form a conga line—as smoke billows from a...
View ArticleNew Bionic Exoskeleton Offers Hope To Thousands Of Paralyzed Veterans
It's not quite Iron Man, not yet anyway.Advancements in medicine for hurt military veterans bodes well for all of us in the future. Alison Morrow of ABCrecently reported about an exoskeleton designed...
View ArticleAn Onslaught Of Protesters Just Forced John Brennan's Confirmation Hearing To...
John Brennan's confirmation hearing to be the next CIA director had to be stopped temporarily because of a flurry of protesters targeting his oversight of the Obama administration's controversial drone...
View Article5 Tricks To Designing A Drone-Proof City
On Wednesday, we covered one student's project to build a "drone-proof" city.Asher J. Kohn describes passive defense techniques that possibly could neutralize the most effective method for...
View ArticleHave You Been In The Military? We Want To Tell YOUR Story
What are those little nuggets of info that you wished you could have known before you went in — the ones your recruiter forget to mention?What advice would you give your younger self, if you could go...
View ArticleHere's Why The Sequester — 'The Bomb That No One Wanted To Drop' — Is Now On...
Pressure is starting to build on both sides of the political aisle to avert the massive, $1.2 trillion across-the-board cuts set to kick in starting March 1 as a result of the looming sequester. But...
View ArticleWe Tried To Fly A Drone But Failed Miserably
When we saw the AR Drone in action at CES last month, we thought it was the coolest thing ever.Equipped with a high-def camera, the AR Drone lets you shoot and record videos from above.You can buy one...
View ArticleNon-Radical Syrian Rebels Recently Received A Ton Of Foreign Weapons
Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters attempting to overthrow Bashar al-Assad have recently received a big boost in the form of heavy weapons, James Miller of EA WorldView reports.For months foreign...
View ArticleThere's A Good Reason Military Medics Train On Live Animals And NOT Dummies
At some point it came out near certain military bases that the military used live animals to train their Medics and Corpsmen. The resulting response was immediate and visceral. Animal cruelty, was...
View ArticleDaily Show Segment Rails On Absolute Absurdity Of Buying More Tanks
"Sequester" has become the boogie man of the American political body.As a result, Americans in the military, retirees, and Medicare recipients will probably see cuts in their wages or...
View ArticleBing Maps Appear To Show The 'Secret' US Drone Base In Saudi Arabia
Last night Wired's Noah Shachtman published satellite images of a remote airstrip deep in the desert of Saudi Arabia that appears to be an American drone outpost built two years ago to target suspect...
View ArticleThis Before And After Image Of Afghanistan Is Hard To Believe
This image of Afghanistan might be hard to wrap your head around, but it's totally accurate. Prior to three-plus decades of war, Afghanistan, and Kabul in particular, had a pretty solid set up, one...
View ArticleAstonishing Photos Of Prewar Afghanistan Show Everyday Life In Peaceful Kabul
I found these astonishing images on the web and, having been to Afghanistan, knew I had to post them.Amateur photographer, and college professor, Dr. William Podlich took a leave of absence from his...
View ArticleBill O'Reilly Blames The 'Far-Left Machine' For Getting NBC's Drone Story Wrong
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly gave a mea culpa on his show Thursday night for bizarrely suggesting the night before that NBC had not reported on a story it had broke about President Barack Obama's...
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