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ISIS Is Pushing To Take Another Major City In Iraq
A humanitarian catastrophe is looming in Iraq’s beleaguered Anbar Province, as Islamic State militants launched a fresh push to capture the regional council in the provincial capital of Ramadi.An...
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Chinese Soldiers Will Now Be Required Prove Their Loyalty To Xi
The PLA will work to institutionalise mechanisms to ensure the ideological purity of the army and ensure its absolute loyalty to the Communist Party.A lengthy article published by the General Political...
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British Home Secretary: The UK Is Facing The Biggest Terrorism Threat In Its...
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is facing the biggest terrorism threat in its history and has foiled around 40 major plots since suicide bombers attacked London in 2005, Home Secretary Theresa May said on...
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China Is About To Take Down Yet Another Top Military Official
Investigators are still wrapping up the case against fallen former general Xu Caihou but speculation mounted yesterday that graft-busters were targeting another senior military officer.An article...
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This Is What Its Like To Live At The US' Most Remote Air Base
Deep within the Arctic Circle in Greenland sits one of the US's most isolated, and potentially critical, air bases. At more than 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Thule Air Base is located at the...
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Hagel Was Fired For The Same Reason He Was Hired
Outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s time at the Pentagon is, counterintuitively, a poor guide to why he’s been thrown under the bus by a flailing, blinkered president growing even more suspicious...
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Another Look At The Military Base China Is Building On A Disputed Reef
A tropical coral reef has been transformed by the Chinese military into a base that could host a 3,000-meter long airstrip and naval port, ready to push Beijing's territorial claim over the South China...
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Russia, China, And Iran Are Mastering Unconventional Warfare — And The US...
Russia, China, Iran, and Islamists are waging unconventional warfare around the world, and the United States currently lacks a clear strategy to counter the threat, according to a recent report by the...
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Hagel's Most Likely Successor Would Be The First Woman To Lead The Pentagon
Now that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s resignation is final, all eyes are on a handful of candidates capable of leading the Pentagon through a minefield of fiscal challenges and unpredictable threats...
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This Artillery-Toting Vespa Was Designed To Take On Tanks
In the 1950s France, in the midst of dealing with insurgencies in its colonies in Algeria and Indochina, recognized a military need for easily transportable artillery that could quickly be deployed to...
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Afghan Mother Says She Killed 10 Taliban In Revenge After Her Son's Death
An Afghan mother has described how her son's killing at the hands of the Taliban spurred her to fight off the insurgents in a gunbattle that left more than two dozen militants dead.Rezagul says she...
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These Are The High Tech Military Systems Japan Is Purchasing To Counter China
Japan is becoming increasingly uncomfortable with China, its powerful and often aggressive neighbor.Although the two countries have sought to improve relations and find common ground over a daunting...
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Hagel's Resignation Could Make It Harder To Fix One Of The Navy's Biggest...
The Navy’s plan to replace the last 20 littoral combat ships with a new, more survivable small surface combatant hangs in a balance of uncertainty amid Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s...
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F-22 Pilots Train Against These Nimble Planes For Air-To-Air Skills
The venerable T-38 Talon which first flew in 1959 (production ceased in 1972) has found new life as an adversary aircraft used to hone the skills of Raptor pilots. The aircraft, pulled from storage at...
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NATO Commander: Russian Troops Are The 'Backbone' Of Anti-Government Forces...
The US general who is NATO's senior commander in Europe has said that there is a large number of Russians providing "backbone guidance and training" to separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, and...
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The Pentagon Is Denying That Hagel Was Forced Out Over A Feud With The White...
The Pentagon denied Tuesday that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was forced to resign following a dispute with National Security Adviser Susan Rice and other policy staffers at the White House on the...
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Hagel's Views On Syria Clashed With The White House — And May Have Cost Him...
The dismissal of Barack Obama's Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, marks yet another instance in which the President and his closest aides find themselves at odds with senior colleagues primarily on the...
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These Are America's Secret Elite Warriors
The US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) oversees roughly 70,000 operators, support units, and civilians from each of the military's sister service branches.America's elite soldiers, work under a...
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Here's The Wild Underwater Vehicle Navy SEALs Use On Stealth Missions
Today’s SEAL Delivery Vehicles (SDVs) almost seem like something from a futuristic styled video game. Powered by rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, equipped with state-of-the-art navigation,...
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This Incredible Graphic Shows The Size Of The World's Largest Armies From...
Mapmaking graphic artist Martin Vargic's has made an amazing graphic tracking the size of the world's largest armies at different points in time. The graphic gives an understanding of the just how...
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