Here's Hezbollah Taking Credit For Sending The Drone Shot Down Over Israel
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Thursday that his Shiite militant group sent an Iranian-built drone that was shot down over Israel last week. "A sophisticated reconnaissance aircraft was...
View ArticleIslamic Jihadists Are Now The Most Organized Force Of The Syrian Opposition
Powerful Syrian Islamist brigades, frustrated by the increasingly fractured Free Syrian Army (FSA), are joining forces in an attempt to topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reports. A...
View ArticleSeven Elite UK Marines Have Been Arrested On Charges Of Murder In A Combat Zone
British military police on Thursday arrested seven members of the elite Royal Marines on suspicion of murder in Afghanistan in 2011, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced. "The incident followed an...
View ArticleBritain Should Be Terribly Grateful The Huge BAE/EAD Defense Merger Failed
If there is one lesson to learn from the spectacular collapse of the proposed merger between BAE Systems and EADS, it is that we jeopardise our special defence and intelligence-sharing relationship...
View ArticleYesterday's Plane Incident Changes Everything Between Turkey And Russia
Russia and Syria have condemned Turkey for forcing a civilian Syrian plane traveling from Moscow to Damascus to land in the Turkish capital last night on suspicions it was carrying military equipment....
View ArticleWatch What It Looks Like When Marines Get Ambushed While Hunting IED's
Recently we at BI Military and Defense received an email with an unclassified document detailing the growing threat of improvised bombs in Afghanistan — the same day, this video came out of Marines in...
View ArticleOne Of These Three Soldiers Is The Luckiest Guy In The US Army
Specialist Devin Hagar had been in Afghanistan only long enough to go out on his first patrol when his platoon came under heavy fire and his squad took evasive measures. India's Jagran Post reports...
View ArticleWhen Biden And Ryan Talk Sequestration Tonight They're Talking About These...
Whether you've heard about it or not, sequestration is a big deal to a lot of people and is directly tied to the economy. When the subcommittee failed to agree on $1.2 trillion in budget cuts last...
View ArticleOne Canadian Spy Confessed To Trashing The Most Top-Secret Intelligence...
Canadian naval intelligence officer has pleaded guilty to spying for Russia over four-and-a-half years, Steven Chase and Jane Taber of The Globe and Mail report. Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Delisle, 41,...
View ArticleThe List Of Discrepancies In This State Department Account Of The Benghazi...
September 10 was a normal day in Benghazi for Ambassador Chris Stevens. He showed up at work, ran around town conducting business and in consideration of September 11 the following day, he spent the...
View ArticleThe US Has Drafted New Military Rules Against A Potential 'Cyber-Pearl Harbor'
The United States faces a growing threat of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor" and has drafted new rules for the military that would enable it to move aggressively against digital attacks, Defense Secretary Leon...
View ArticleAn Unflinching Account Of How The Syrian Town Maaret Al-Numan Was Taken By...
Blown-up buildings, deserted streets and corpses of regime soldiers bear testimony to a fierce 48-hour battle before the town of Maaret al-Numan fell to Syrian rebels. The capture of Maaret al-Numan...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Is Prepared To Act On Reports Iran Cyber-Attacked Persian Gulf...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former U.S. government official says American authorities firmly believe that Iranian hackers, likely supported by the Tehran government, were responsible for recent cyberattacks...
View ArticleThousands Of People In Mali Are Begging For Help From The United Nations
Several thousand people marched in Mali's capital Bamako on Thursday to call for armed intervention by a West African regional force to help wrest back the vast north of the country from armed...
View ArticleThe Guardian Takes A Close Look At Who's Actually Fighting In Syria
Syrian government Russia has retained its historical role as the key weapons supplier to Bashar al-Assad's regime over the past 18 months. It is believed to have sent at least three shipments of heavy...
View ArticleMexican Cartels Are Flooding US Cities With High Quality Meth
Mexican cartels are pumping exceptionally cheap, high quality methamphetamine into the United States, Jim Salter of The Associated Press reports. Cartel meth—which is 90 percent pure—now accounts for...
View ArticleDARPA Just Paid $2.6 Million For A Skintight Smart Suit That's Straight Out...
Exoskeletons with hydraulic arms and piston powered legs are nothing terribly new — Raytheon's got a new version it showed off this summer. But this Warrior Web program proposed by DARPA is a first....
View ArticlePowerful Photo Of Obama And Hillary Clinton At The Transfer Ceremony For...
White House photographer Pete Souza posts this picture of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greeting the remains of the four Americans — including U.S. Amb. Christopher...
View ArticleThe Newest Round Of Sanctions Are Killing Iran's Sea Trade
LONDON (Reuters) - Iran's vital seaborne trade is buckling under the weight of Western sanctions, deepening hardship for a population deprived of basic imports and heaping intense pressure on Tehran...
View ArticleKennedy Was Also Dealing With Embassy Bomb Threats During The Cuban Missile...
As President John F. Kennedy tried to pull the world back from the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he received an urgent communique from the American embassy in London....
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