Indian Authorities Shut Down Mobile Network To Stop 'Rumors' After Deadly...
The southern Indian city of Hyderabad has been hit by twin bomb blasts in a bus station and a cinema, the BBC reports.Between 10 and 20 people are believed dead at present, and there are reports of a...
View ArticleDrive-By Shooting And Multi-Vehicle Crash Leave Three Dead On The Las Vegas...
Three people are dead after a Range Rover opened fire on a Maserati on the Las Vegas Strip, The Associated Press reports.Initially police said there was a gunfight between the two cars, but...
View ArticleIf Congress Can't Compromise, Then America Will Have A 'Hollow Army'
Automatic budget cuts that could hit on Mar. 1 have top military leadership scrambling, with Army General Ray Odierno warning that they will reduce the service to a "hollow Army."While the U.S....
View ArticleMali Militants Leave Behind Document With 22 Tips On Avoiding Drones
One of the last things the bearded fighters did before leaving this city was to drive to the market where traders lay their carpets out in the sand.The al-Qaida extremists bypassed the...
View ArticleAl Qaeda's 22 Tips For Avoiding Drone Detection
Local Timbuktu mat-seller Leitny Cisse al-Djoumat couldn't hide his shock at the sheer amount of mats these strange fellows bought."It's the first time someone has bought such a large amount,"...
View Article800,000 Defense Workers Are Going To Get A 20 Percent Pay Cut If The...
The automatic budget cuts set to hit every level of the federal government will bring a shortened workweek and a smaller paycheck for the majority of the Defense Department's civilian workers,...
View ArticleLockheed Ad From The 1950s Shows The Defense Industry's Better Days
The military and the defense industry have certainly seen better days (though most of the bigwigs are still making money hand over fist)."Sequestration" or has become the bogeyman beneath Washington's...
View ArticleAmerica Can't Win The Cyberwar By Hacking
Yesterday we detailed how the U.S. doesn't have any good options in the face of persistent economic espionage by Chinese military hackers, and several readers asked: Why not just hack them back? We...
View ArticleThere's A Reason Obama Would Rather Talk About Benghazi Than Drones
With Defense Secretary–designate Chuck Hagel's nomination under Republican filibuster at least until the Senate returns to work Feb. 25, lawmakers are turning their sights on President Obama's nominee...
View ArticleChina 'Holds General's Son For Gang Rape'
China has detained the 17-year-old son of a general on suspicion of involvement in a gang rape, reports said Friday, the latest allegation against the privileged children of officials to spark public...
View ArticleFBI Disciplines Employees For 'Sexting, Drunk Driving, Paying For Sex And...
The reports describe a "rash of sexting cases", include examples of employees using staff Blackberry devices to send rude texts and photosConfidential internal disciplinary reports obtained by a US...
View ArticleJon Stewart Tears Into Obama: 'What Is In Those Drone Memos That Is So...
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart attacked President Barack Obama for what he said was a broken promise on being more transparent about his administration's drone program. Stewart criticized Obama for...
View ArticleChinese Hackers Have A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That No One Is Talking About
The rousing report out of Mandiant about Chinese internet exploitation focused primarily on the widespread, systematic, state-sponsored thievery of proprietary data.What it also mentioned (almost in...
View ArticleThe F-22's Most Important Feature Does Nothing To Help It Survive Aerial Combat
A couple of weeks ago, an experienced Eurofighter Typhoon industry test pilot wrote to The Aviationist to reply to a Lockheed F-35 test pilot who, talking to Flight’s Dave Majumdar, had claimed that...
View Article100 US Troops Are Setting Up Near Mali To Support French Fighters
About 100 U.S. military personnel have been sent to the African nation of Niger, according to a report from the Associated Press.In a letter to Congress, President Barack Obama said troops will focus...
View ArticleThe 12 Most Ridiculous Things FBI Agents Did Recently
The FBI has released disciplinary files from its Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) showing misconduct by agents over the last two quarters. "We're hoping (that) getting the message out in the...
View ArticleThis Assault Breacher Might Be The Most Bizarre Thing You'll See All Weekend
I honestly did not know this mechanized contraption was in the field, let alone in active use.The Marine Corps M1 Breacher shoots this Spiderman-like rope high in the air, that falls a hundred or so...
View ArticleJoin Us On This 30-Ton Amphibious Assault Craft As We Storm The Beaches
I remember like it was yesterday, though it was 2003 when I was standing inside the well deck of the USS Essex amphibious assault ship. I was a U.S. Marine, sailing off the coast of Hawaii on a...
View ArticleThe Deputy Secretary Of Defense Is Doing An Incredibly Classy Thing To Stand...
Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carterannounced to the Senate that if his employees in the Department of Defense suffered a pay cut because of Sequestration, he'd voluntarily give the Treasury the...
View ArticleIsrael Grants First Golan Heights Oil Drilling License To Powerful US Company
Israel has granted a U.S. company the first license to explore for oil and gas in the occupied Golan Heights, John Reed of the Financial Times reports.A local subsidiary of the New York-listed company...
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