13 Photos From The Protests In Ferguson, Missouri You Won't Believe Happened...
Protests entered their fifth and most tense day in Ferguson, Missouri in response to a police officer on Saturday fatally shooting 18-year-old Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, and it's hard to look...
View ArticleUS Officials: Israel Restocked Ammo During Gaza Offensive Without White House...
Israel secured supplies of ammunition from the Pentagon last month without the approval of the White House or the State Department, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.Since officials there were...
View ArticleHere's Why Russia Has Sent $13 Billion Worth Of Weaponry To India In Recent...
Russia has sent an extraordinary amount of weaponry to India, which was the world's largest arms importer in 2013. Vladimir Putin's government has been aggressive in its stance towards Europe and the...
View ArticleHeavy Russian Military Equipment Is Joining The 'Aid' Convoy To Eastern Ukraine
Vladimir Putin's government is sending a convoy of unmarked white trucks to Ukraine, and the supposed humanitarian mission is now being accompanied by heavy offensive Russian military equipment.The...
View ArticleExperts: Here's What The US Could And Will Do Next In Iraq
Scholars Clark A. Murdock, Kathleen H. Hicks,Thomas Karako, Samuel J. Brannen,Ryan Crotty, and John Schaus of the CSIS International Security Program offer analysis beyond the headlines on the evolving...
View ArticleHere's How The US Should Adapt To The New Age Of Asymmetric Warfare
It doesn’t seem all that long since the United States was considering how advancements in military technology would allow it to use advances in long-range precision weapons, intelligence sensors, and...
View ArticleThese 22 Charts Reveal Who Serves In America's Military
Even as the Pentagon plans significant troop reductions, the U.S. Armed Forces remain by far the most powerful and most expensive military in the world.But who makes up America's over 1.3 million...
View ArticlePutin Waged A 'Special War' Long Before Crimea
Long before Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and began his slow-rolling aggression against Ukraine, I was explaining the concept of Special War, specifically as an alternative to the very expensive and...
View ArticleFerguson Gets Free Military Gear From The Pentagon — Like So Many Police Forces
The images coming out of Ferguson, Mo., in the last few days have been harrowing, and one element in particular has shocked those watching the events unfold. American law enforcement decked out in...
View ArticleThis Stealth Technology Is The Future Of Japanese Aircraft
Reports in the Japanese press recently suggested that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is planning on launching the maiden flight of their stealth technology experimental aircraft as early as next January....
View ArticleHere's A Breakdown Of The Military-Style Gear Used On The Streets Of...
The protests in Ferguson, Missouri over the past week came to a tense head on Wednesday evening, as heavily-armed police officers — many wearing military-style uniforms and gear — fired rubber bullets...
View ArticleThe Marine Corps Wants To Build A Laser Weapon To Shoot Down Enemy Aircraft
The Marine Corps has begun field testing a laser weapon that can be mounted on a Humvee to shoot down low-flying aircraft such as enemy drones, Raytheon announced Wednesday."Raytheon is paving the way...
View ArticleThis Hamas Video Shows The Group Building Rockets During Israel's Gaza Offensive
Hamas’s al-Aqsa TV aired footage on Wednesday of M-75 rocket production somewhere in the Gaza Strip in what it said was the course of the current conflict. The report said the clip was shot on August...
View ArticleREPORT: Ukrainian Troops Attacked Russian Military Column
The Ukrainian military has reportedly attacked and destroyed a part of a Russian military column that has crossed the border through the separatist-held border post of Izvaryne, according to Bloomberg...
View ArticleHere's What It's Like To Be A Navy SEAL Sniper
Editor's note: This post originally appeared on Quora, as an answer to the question, "What is it like to be a sniper?" Michael Janke, a former Navy SEAL, shared his answer with us.My initial reaction...
View ArticleUS Colonel Explains Why ISIS Is More Dangerous Than Al-Qaeda
On a hot summer’s afternoon last week, I visited the 9/11 Memorial at the Pentagon. After a day of news dominated by airstrikes in Iraq, I felt this was an appropriate reminder. In silence, I walked...
View ArticleWhy The US Air Force Should Reorganize Itself To Mirror FedEx
Over the last year or so, there has been increased chatter about the Active and Reserve Component—or AC/RC in military lingo —mix of the U.S. armed forces. This has happened, in large part, because as...
View ArticleThe Clinton-Obama Spat Reveals Just How Naval Gazing The American Foreign...
When outsiders watch how America debates foreign policy issues, they are usually taken by the extent to which these become almost entirely domestic conversations.Before the Iraq war in 2003, as the...
View ArticleThe Air Force Has A Radical Technology Plan For The Next 30 Years
The Air Force recently released its outline for a 30-year strategy, charting the future of a branch of the military that has been recently transformed by technological innovations like the development...
View ArticleISIS Is Turning Food And Water Into A Weapon In Iraq
Since its rapid expansion across Iraq in June, ISIS has scored a number of tactical victories throughout the north and west of the country. These victories have placed a large swath of Iraqi territory...
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