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Syrian rebels detonated a massive tunnel bomb under a regime intelligence...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Insurgents attacked a Syrian government security building in the northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, bombing it and then launching a ground assault, sources on both sides and a...
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The 12 largest man-made explosions in history
No other force epitomizes the absolute destructive power humanity has unlocked in the way nuclear weapons have.Though many countries have conducted nuclear tests, only the US and USSR have tested...
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US aircraft carriers have one huge vulnerability
On March 4, the French Ministry of Defense released some interesting details about one of its nuclear-powered attack submarines (SNA) in the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.According to the French...
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The Air Force's argument to retire the legendary A-10 just doesn't add up
The US Air Force and the rest of the military desperately need to cut billions of dollars while minimizing the loss to combat capabilities. Eliminating platforms provides the greatest cost savings due...
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In Nigeria, officials have warned livestock owners that their animals could become a Boko Haram weapon to disrupt voters in the nation’s coming elections. As bizarre as that may sound, the use of...
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The German army is putting one of its battalions under Polish command
The German army is to put one of its battalions under Polish command, rapidly scaling up ties with Warsaw at a time of increasing fears in eastern Europe over Russia.General Bruno Kasdorf told Reuters...
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Here’s what the war helicopters of the future might look like
Moving an army is no easy task, and it’s even harder when that army wants to travel by air. Working with NASA and the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army is developing a new fleet of helicopters to carry troops...
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This broken 700-ton generator demonstrates everything that went wrong with...
It has been almost four years since US forces withdrew from Iraq, and the fate of the country has never seemed more uncertain.ISIS continues to control large swathes of the country, Iran's influence is...
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The Air Force took these incredible photos in a single one-week span
The US Air Force is nothing if not photogenic. The military's air branch does incredible things on a daily basis — and its photographers are there to capture some of its most spectacular moments.In the...
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More details about the Syrian Christian businessman serving as Assad's...
This article was originally published on September 5, 2014. We are re-publishing in light of new EU sanctions on Assad's ISIS liaison.For a long time, the conventional narrative about the rise of the...
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Cracks in ISIS are becoming more clear
The biggest challenge to one of the world's most dangerous terrorist groups may now come from within. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, which controls a chunk of Iraq and Syria the size of...
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Veterans on Reddit shared their favorite experiences from the US military
People have a range of different reasons for joining the military, and each US veteran has their own unique experiences and memories while in the service.Redditer user airmonk asked the veterans at the...
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The US is sending 3,000 soldiers to the Baltic for NATO exercises amid Russia...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says that about 3,000 U.S. soldiers from the Georgia-based 3rd Infantry Division will deploy to Eastern Europe beginning next week, to conduct training exercises with...
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23 terms only US Marines will understand
Marines speak a slightly-different language than the rest of the United States.While all troops in the Corps speak and use English most of the time, there’s another layer of terminology added on top...
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We are witnessing a new geopolitical reality in the South China Sea
Over the past two years, China has been methodically terraforming small reefs and shoals into islands in the highly contentious South China Sea (SCS). The SCS is important not only because of its...
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David Petraeus's plea deal lets him off easy
Many have offered their opinions on the recent guilty plea by David H. Petraeus to misdemeanor charges of mishandling classified materials.While Petraeus avoided charges of making materially false...
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Stunning footage of F-18 jets during training exercises
Here’s another really cool video filmed from aboard F/A-18E Super Hornets with the U.S. Navy’s Strike-Fighter Squadron 27 (VFA-27) “Royal Maces”.Based at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, in Japan, VFA-27 is...
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Pakistan successfully tested a nuclear-capable missile that can hit any point...
Pakistan successfully launched the latest version of an indigenously developed nuclear-capable cruise missile on Monday, The Washington Post reports. The Shaheen-III missile has a maximum range of up...
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Here are some incredible photos of US Super Hornets refueling French jets in...
The F/A-18E Super Hornet is serving as an aerial refueler for French combat planes operating from the French Charles De Gaulle aircraft carrier.The images in this post were taken on March 9 over the...
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Samantha Power was wrong in claiming that Europe has backed down from UN...
A couple of days ago, Ambassador Samantha Power, the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, gave a speech on peacekeeping in Brussels that, among other things, lamented a decline in the...
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