The US Is Conducting A Massive Nuclear Arms Drill Days After A Russian...
U.S. Strategic Command will be conducting a massive "deter and detect" nuclear drill from May 12 to May 16, just four days after a similar Russian exercise. The U.S. drill, known as Exercise Global...
View ArticleAn Army Sergeant Will Receive The Medal Of Honor Today For Heroics In This...
A former Army sergeant will be awarded the Medal of Honor today for his heroics during a hellish 2007 battle in Afghanistan.Former Sgt. Kyle J. White, who was just 20 years old during the firefight on...
View ArticleCelebrate Top Gun Day Today With Two Amazing F-14 Stories
May 13 is Top Gun Day. Let’s celebrate it with two unknown F-14 Tomcat stories told by the former Tomcat Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) Dave “Bio” Baranek.Developed in the late 1960s as a multi-mission...
View ArticleThe UN Is Debating The Use Of Killer Robot Soldiers Today
It's going to be standing room only at United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva today. On the agenda: killer robots, or as the U.N. calls them "LETHAL AUTONOMOUS WEAPON...
View ArticleWatch Obama Give This Army Sergeant The Medal Of Honor For His Valor During A...
Former Army Sgt. Kyle J. White is due to receive the Medal of Honor, the military's highest award for valor, today at the White House.White is receiving the award for his acts of valor and heroism...
View ArticleAs If Lebanon Weren't Unstable Enough, Al Qaeda Is Now Moving In
In the first two months of 2014, Lebanon appeared to be descending rapidly, almost inexorably, into a mire of alarming bloodshed and instability.An unprecedented wave of al-Qaeda-linked attacks on...
View ArticleHere's What It's Like To Fly A Russian Attack Plane At Ultra-Low Altitude
Russian Air Force Sukoi-24 pilots like low-level flying. Here’s a video that shows one of their treetop-altitude missions from inside the cockpit. The latest footage shows Su-24s flying a training...
View ArticleHere's How The Military Would Actually Fight Godzilla
When "Godzilla" roars into theaters this Friday, cinema's greatest monster will go up against the world's largest military, the U.S. armed forces.But how much of a chance would the U.S. military...
View ArticleHere's Why The Pentagon Has A Plan For The Zombie Apocalypse
The Defense Department, known for having a plan in place for any disaster scenario, has created a detailed strategy for a possible zombie apocalypse, Gordon Lubold reports for Foreign Policy. The...
View ArticleThe Philippines Accuses China Of Seizing Some Of Its Territory In The South...
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines accused China on Wednesday of reclaiming land on a reef in disputed islands in the South China Sea, apparently to build an airstrip, only a day after Washington...
View ArticleHere's The Pentagon's 6 Steps To Combat A Zombie Apocalypse
United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) has a detailed plan that outlines how the military should respond to a zombie apocalypse, Gordon Lubold reports for Foreign Policy.The training manual,...
View ArticlePro-Russian Separatists Killed Seven Ukrainian Soldiers In Disastrous Ambush
KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists ambushed Ukrainian troops on Tuesday, killing seven in the heaviest loss of life for government forces in a single clash since Kiev sent soldiers to put...
View ArticleHere's A Shocking Picture Of A Turkish Politician Kicking A Protester In The...
Turkey is up in arms over the Soma Mine disaster, which has killed over 280 people. Labor unions have called for a national one-day strike on Thursday. Simultaneously, protests have shaken several...
View ArticlePro-Russian Rebel Commander Warns Of Onslaught Against Ukrainian Forces
SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - A senior rebel commander in Ukraine's separatist eastern region has threatened an onslaught on Ukrainian military checkpoints if they are not withdrawn on Thursday,...
View ArticleAnti-Chinese Protests Have Broken Out In Vietnam — Here's Why It Could Be The...
Anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam have turned deadly. At least five Vietnamese workers and 16 others have been killed within the past day in an eruption of tensions in the region. The riots began as...
View ArticleHere's The Massive Scope Of World War I In A Single GIF
One hundred years after the start of World War I, it is still extremely difficult to comprehend just how global a phenomenon the war was. It affected people on every continent and hastened the end of...
View ArticleUS Threatens To 'Bleed' Russia If It Disrupts Ukraine Vote
The United States warned Russia on Thursday of stepped-up Western sanctions to make its economy "bleed" if it disrupts a crucial presidential election in Ukraine just 10 days away.Ukraine's interim...
View ArticleHow Synthetic Marijuana Became The Drug Of Choice For US Soldiers
A type of synthetic marijuana, called Spice, is by far the drug of choice for active-duty Army personnel, according to a press release about a University of Washington study of soldiers at Joint Base...
View ArticleChina Blames Vietnam And Says It Won't Give Up An Inch Of Disputed Territory
A top Chinese general on Thursday defended China's deployment of an oil rig in the disputed South China Sea that has triggered deadly protests in Vietnam, saying Beijing can't afford to "lose an inch"...
View ArticlePentagon Press Conference Turns Into Heated Debate Between Top Generals From...
A top Chinese general Thursday strongly defended Beijing's territorial claims over disputed islands in the South and East China Seas and charged that the U.S. rebalance of forces to the Pacific was...
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