This Is How Ridiculously Fast A SWAT Team Can Break Into A Home And Make An...
A recently released video from a SWAT team member’s helmet cam captures a raid on a home in Evansville, Indiana.In less than 30 seconds, the team broke down a glass door, tossed in lash grenades, and...
View ArticleKentucky Couple Accused Of Selling Military Electronics To China
A couple in Union, Kentucky has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly selling prohibited military-grade electronics to China. Louis and Rosemary Brothers, who own Valley Forge Composite Technologies,...
View ArticleThis Map Of US And Russian Arms Sales Says It All
They say the Cold War is over, but Russia and the U.S. remain the leading supplier of weapons to countries around the world and are the two biggest military powers. Lately, tensions have been pretty...
View ArticleThis Is The Terrifying Result Of The Militarization Of Police
While serving as a U.S. Marine on patrol in Afghanistan, we wore desert camouflage to blend in with our surroundings, carried rifles to shoot back when under enemy attack, and drove around in armored...
View ArticleWhy The US Had To Rescue The Peshmerga With Airstrikes In Iraq
The extremist Sunni militants known as the Islamic State that swept across northern Iraq in June scattered government troops before them.Many of the panicked soldiers left their posts without firing a...
View ArticleIn A Break With 70 Years Of US Military Practice, The American Operation In...
U.S. warplanes have been bombing militant vehicles and positions in northern Iraq since Aug. 8, including nine airstrikes Saturday and 14 Sunday, but the Pentagon has yet to come up with a name for the...
View ArticleIraq's New Prime Minister Is Exactly Who Iran Wanted For The Job
Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haidar al-Abadi is the third successive Dawa Party official to become Iraq’s elected chief executive since 2003.Abadi is also Iran’s man, much more so than his...
View ArticleA Soviet Conscript Who Was Captured By The Nazis Shares His WWII Experience...
A 94-year-old World War II veteran born in modern-day Armenia has started a Reddit AMA, with the help of his granddaughter, in which he provides a startling look at his time as a conscript in the...
View ArticleHackers Broke Into The Computers Of A US Nuclear Agency That Monitors Reactors
Multiple hackers have broken into the computers of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), an agency that has records on the location and condition of all nuclear reactors—including weapons-grade...
View ArticleHow The Air Force Wants To Transform Itself Over The Next Three Decades
As the Air Force embarks on a new 30-year operational plan, which covered the technological leaps that the branch of the military hopes to make in the coming decades, one word appeared consistently as...
View ArticleThe Military Is Closing In On Powerful Exoskeleton Technology
For decades, the U.S. military and its private-sector partners have been working toward a technology straight out of science fiction: robotic suits.And it's no surprise. Exoskeletons could add to...
View ArticleThese Maps Tracking 'Botched' Raids Show The Troubling Law Enforcement Trends...
The Ferguson, Missouri police department's heavy-handed response to protests over the killing of an unarmed teenager follows a long-standing trend of strong-arm, military-style police tactics....
View ArticleThis South African-Made Light Military Aircraft Could Become An Appealing...
Powered by a pusher propeller, covered in pixel camouflage, and furnished with stadium-seating for its two crew members, the Advanced High Performance Reconnaissance and Surveillance Aircraft (AHRLAC)...
View ArticleWatch The Navy's New High-Tech 'Killer Drone' Land On An Aircraft Carrier For...
The Navy’s unmanned X-47B drone demonstrated its ability to operate safely and seamlessly with manned aircraft in a series of tests conducted aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.On Aug. 17, the U.S. Navy...
View ArticleThe F-35 Could Eventually End Production Of Every Other Military Jet
Assuming that Lockheed Martin’s F-35 eventually dominates foreign military markets, most fourth generation fighters will be pushed out of production.After 2018, the F-35 is likely to capture over a 50...
View ArticleGitmo Spent $300,000 On Liquid Supplements While Denying A 'Mass Hunger Strike'
Hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees apparently prefer to be force-fed vanilla Ensure.At least that's what documents obtained exclusively by VICE News from the US military suggest. Guantanamo officials...
View ArticleThe Unnerving Precedent Of Using The National Guard To Quell Civil Unrest
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon announced early Monday that he was bringing in troops from the Missouri National Guard to help contain demonstrations that have at times turned violent in the Saint Louis...
View ArticleA Chechen Warlord Detained Over 1000 People After Losing His Cellphone
MOSCOW – No one likes losing their cell phone. And Ramzan Kadyrov is no exception. After misplacing his telephone at a museum opening over the weekend, the Chechen leader had over a thousand people...
View ArticleUS Nuclear Watchdog Group Was Hacked Three Times In The Last Few Years
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission was "successfully hacked" three times in recent years in attacks involving tainted emails, according to an internal investigation on cyber attacks at the agency,...
View Article10 Things Learned In The Military That Can Be Applied To Life
Editor's note: This post originally appeared on Quora, as an answer to the question, "What military strategies can be used in everyday life?" 10. Apperance Matters I spent most of the first few months...
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