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Here's What Is Going On In Mali And Why No One Can Decide What To Do
Despite guaranteed backing from the US, France ruled out sending its own troops to North Africa, asking the African Union and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to step in instead....
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Mitt Romney Is Right, The US Needs A Bigger Presence In The Middle East
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney made his most significant public appearance since last week’s presidential debate. You can read the whole thing here. It was for the most part a frank and brave...
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Bing Maps Show The CIA's Secret Bin Laden Training Facility In North Carolina
In No Easy Day, Navy Seal Mark Bissonnette's account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Bissonnette mentions that Seal Team 6 trained on a replica compound at a secret site in North Carolina....
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The US Wants To Spend 16-Grand On Prosthetic Arms For This Suspected Terrorist
Radical preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri might be upgrading his hooks to hands thanks to the American taxpayer. For a few days after his extradition, Masri whined like a baby over the Feds confiscating of...
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See Why Every US Aircraft Carrier Needs A Ouija Board
The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is a deadly and complex scene, riddled with incoming aircraft, snapping steel cables and the ever present risk of calamity and death. Flight Deck Control (FDC)...
View ArticleThe Navy's Newest Ship Contains A Powerful Memorial To 19 Fallen Heroes
The USS Michael Murphy is more than just a world-class weapons system and an integral new piece of the US defense capabilities, it is also a memorial to Lt. Michael Murphy and the other men who lost...
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Taiwan Blames Apple Maps For Revealing Its $1.2 Billion Top-Secret Radar Base
It's no secret Apple Maps is leaving many people people frustrated, but perhaps none so much as the Taiwanese defense ministry who claim Apple is guilty of revealing its secret military sites. PhysOrg...
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Turkey Is Sending More Than Two Dozen F-16s Toward The Syrian Border
As Turkey and Syria continue to lob ordnance back-and-forth across their shared border for the eighth straight day, news has emerged that Turkey is upping the ante. David Cenciotti at The Aviationist...
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Forget Those Little Islands: Real Chinese Nationalists Claim Okinawa
In a glass case at Beijing's Imperial College, an 18th century book with a yellowed title page in bold, black characters is evidence -- some Chinese say -- that a swathe of modern-day Japan belongs to...
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Upcoming US Defense Cuts Could Spell The End Of Israel's New Missile System
In March 2011, Israel’s Iron Dome missile interception system was deployed, after four years in the making. The intention was to form a protective canopy over the country, rendering its population...
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The US Is Sending A Military Task Force Into Jordan
The US military has sent a task force to Jordan to help it handle an influx of Syrian refugees and prepare for other scenarios, including Damascus losing control of its chemical weapons, a senior US...
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Choice For New NATO Intelligence Director In Afghanistan Confirms That...
The new Director of Intelligence of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has not been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan over the past eleven years, Matthew M. Aid reports....
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Congress Is Forcing The Army To Buy Tanks It Neither Needs Nor Wants
Members of Congress are forcing the Army to purchase tanks that it neither wants nor needs, Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston of CNN report. Earlier this year Army chief of staff Gen. Raymond T....
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This Brilliant Afghan War Photo Has Become A Meme
I got an email asking if this photo was one of mine. Actually it isn't, but it was first published here in a recent slideshow. The photographer is named Ken Jasik, a Marine Combat Correspondent who...
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Obama's Effort To Privatize Government Transparency And FOIA Requests Is...
The administration of Barack Obama's plans to usher in a "new era of transparency" by privatizing Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) Requests under private contractors may have just resulted in new...
View ArticleSISTER OF SLAIN SEAL: The Politicization Of My Brother's Death Is 'Disturbing'
The sister of Navy SEAL Glen Doherty spoke out Wednesday night about the controversy surrounding the politicization of her brother's death in the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya last...
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This Is What It's Like When A Warlord Throws A Fit Over Local Elections
I first met Pacha Khan on a sunny day in October 2010. He had been invited onto the Afghan Army base where I worked to be congratulated by the Afghan Brigade Commander for winning the recent...
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Imagine Madness, And You Will Get An Idea Of What It's Like For People...
My brother at arms called me the other day to shoot the breeze. After a few minutes he says to me: "So King, tell me more about this breathing stuff." "Of course, what's up?" " I don't know man,...
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The Military's 'Suck It Up' Mentality Is The Biggest Problem Facing PTSD...
“Drink water, drive on.” I think anyone who’s spent any time in the military has heard that expression or something similar. There’s no doubt that in the military we have a tough mindset. If it ain’t...
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Life In A Combat Zone Always Breaks Down Into These Types Of Deployment
I’ve always said that every Iraq/ Afghanistan experience can be different. You can spend the entire deployment working on a large camp in an office. Or you could be “outside the wire” intermixing...
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