Mexico's 'Arab Spring' Is Here
MEXICO CITY — In this mountain capital, tens of thousands marched downtown, with a few hundred smashing the windows of banks and shops.In southern Oaxaca state, protesters blockaded the entrance to an...
View ArticleHere's How Bashar Al-Assad Says He Explains The Syrian Civil War To His Kids
On November 28, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad granted a rare interview to The Full Paris Match. The interview is full of deflections and rationalizations from a defiant Assad, who at one point...
View ArticleFrance Is About To Pay $60 Million In Compensation For Deportations During...
Washington (AFP) - In a landmark deal, France will pay $60 million to the United States to be shared among American and foreign nationals deported to Nazi death camps on French trains in World War...
View ArticleAn Abandoned Red Army Base In Hungary May Have Once Stockpiled Nukes
Located in a wooded area near the village of Nagyvazsony in central Hungary, the base – nicknamed "Little Moscow" by locals – was a Soviet base abandoned in 1990. The Red Army may have kept a stockpile...
View ArticleAmerica's Secret Elite Warriors Explained In One Simple Infographic
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...
View ArticleRussia Has Begun Militarizing The Arctic
Russia's new military command center in the Arctic became operational Monday, as the country increasingly militarizes the polar region. Moscow's new Northern Command will subsume the Russian Northern...
View ArticleUnforgettable Photos From The Attack On Pearl Harbor, 73 Years Ago Today
December 7, 1941 began as a perfect Sunday morning for the troops serving the US fleet at Pearl Harbor.Under a early morning South Pacific sun, softball teams were lining up on the beach. Pitchers...
View ArticleCombat Veterans Explain How ISIS Became A Lethal Force
In this excerpt from The ISIS Solution: How Unconventional Thinking And Special Operations Can Eliminate Radical Islam, Army Ranger Jack Murphy, Navy SEAL Brandon Webb, and Recon Marine Peter Nealen,...
View ArticleThe World's Most Lethal Rocket-Propelled Grenade That Takes Out Tanks
Apart from the AK-47, no other weapon has graced the world’s television screens more in modern times, than the RPG-7. Officially known in Russian as the Reaktivnoi Protivotankovii Granatomet (Hand...
View ArticleHow The Fight Over The A-10 Is Really About The Purpose And Self-Image Of The...
The A-10 “Warthog” once again has found itself in the retirement crosshairs. The main support for its retirement comes from the Air Force and proponents of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.Last...
View ArticleThe US And NATO Held A Ceremony To Mark The End Of Their Combat Mission In...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The US and NATO closed their combat command in Afghanistan on Monday, more than 13 years after invading the country in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks to target...
View ArticleShiites Are Dominating The Heart Of The Middle East
Ramzi hails from a family of notable Iraqi Sunnis. At the University of Baghdad, he played the guitar and met my Shiite cousin.They both graduated from the School of Engineering with honors, tied the...
View ArticleObama Shouldn't Have Fired Chuck Hagel — He Should Have Fired His Secretary...
The firing of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense raises more questions than it answers.Is it correct to blame military failures on the military establishment when the executive has not articulated a...
View ArticleHere Are The FBI's Most Wanted Cyber Criminals
As cybercrime becomes increasingly damaging, the FBI has kept a list of "Cyber's Most Wanted." Comprised of the most damaging cyber criminals in the world, the wanted list includes five officers from...
View ArticleNorth Korea: 'Supporters And Sympathizers' May Have Hacked Sony
North Korea has officially denied that it was behind the Sony hacks. But in a statement published in state media, the country ambiguously hinted that a group sympathetic to Pyongyang may have carried...
View ArticleChina Is Diminishing The US's Air Power Superiority
The US Air Force’s air power superiority over China is rapidly diminishing in light of rapid Chinese modernization of fighter jets, cargo planes and stealth aircraft, according to a recently released...
View ArticleA 3-Star General Explains Why America Lost The Global War On Terror
In this excerpt from Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, retired 3-star Army Lieutenant General Daniel Bolger, who led NATO training mission in Afghanistan from...
View ArticleSexual Threats And Other Harsh CIA Methods Detailed In Senate Report
The Senate Intelligence Committee prepared to release a report on the CIA's anti-terrorism tactics on Tuesday and U.S. officials moved to shore up security at American facilities around the world as a...
View ArticleUS Commander In Afghanistan: I Don't Know If I'm Optimistic About The Country
US and NATO combat missions ceremonially ended in Afghanistan on Dec. 8 after a grueling thirteen years of conflict. However, the end of combat missions does not mean that the Taliban and al Qaeda have...
View ArticleThe Torture Report Has Some Major Implications For The CIA's Controversial...
There will be a tremendous number of reactions to the graphic and troubling findings contained in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) study’s executive study of the CIA’s detention and...
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