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This is what it's like to feel zero-gravity aboard NASA’s ‘vomit comet’
Way back in the early ‘90s, when I was a US Navy lieutenant serving as the editor of Approach magazine (Naval Aviation’s Safety review), I was invited by NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd to come down to...
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The Russian army loves Coca-Cola (but don’t tell the Kremlin)
Anti-Western sentiment in Russia sometimes extends to American products, from McDonald’s burgers to Apple computers.Russian officials also have a propaganda campaign against Coca-Cola. But it doesn’t...
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Shinzo Abe to become first Japanese PM to address joint session of US Congress
Washington (AFP) - Shinzo Abe is expected to become the first Japanese prime minister in history to address a joint session of the US Congress, crowning an April visit focused on deepening trade and...
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Iran-backed Shia militias are even too brutal for Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric
Iraq's most important Shi'ite religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called on Friday for greater professionalism and planning by government forces and allied militias in fighting Islamic...
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The oldest female US military veteran dies at 108
Lucy Coffey, the oldest living woman U.S. military veteran who served with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in the Pacific Theater during World War Two, has died at the age of 108, veterans officials...
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Pentagon: Here are all the problems with the F-35
The US military's fifth-generation fighter is no stranger to controversy. The F-35, which comes with an estimated $1.5 trillion pricetag over the life of the program, has faced numerous hurdles and...
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A chilling look inside a former Soviet gulag
At the height of the gulag system, millions of Russians were imprisoned and put into forced labor. The gulag system housed citizens ranging from wayward peasants to political dissidents. Each year...
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This map shows where the world's 3 biggest arms exporters are sending their...
The US, Russia, and China are the world's largest arms exporters. They took the largest slices of a growing pie: The global arms trade was 16% larger in 2010-2014 than it was in 2005-2009, according to...
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This map shows the massive scale of Russia's planned fortification of the Arctic
The Arctic ice is slowly melting, and Russia is positioning itself to take advantage of new shipping routes along with natural resources available beneath the Arctic seabed.In order to capitalize on a...
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A clash between Shinzo Abe and a governor frustrates US troop move in Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - A clash between Japan's central government and Okinawa island, host to the bulk of U.S. troops in Japan, deepened on Monday when the southern island's governor ordered a halt to...
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US air defense troops are training rapid deployment of advanced missile...
SOCHACZEW, Poland (AP) — U.S. air defense troops are training rapid deployment of Patriot missile launchers in Poland amid concerns that the conflict between Russia-backed rebels and government forces...
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Top NATO commander: The West is losing the information war
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO's supreme commander says the West must do more to counter Russia by employing a rapid-reaction approach to internet communications that counteracts Russia's "false narratives"...
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US commander: The Russian cruise missile threat is growing
Russia is developing a long-range cruise missile that poses a new threat to the United States, the commander of the US Northern Command warned this week.“Russia is progressing toward its goal of...
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Iran is expanding its regional 'empire' ahead of a potential nuclear deal
BEIRUT (Reuters) - With Iran moving closer to a deal with world powers to constrain its nuclear program in return for an end to sanctions, Arab analysts and leaders are focused more on how Tehran is...
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Russia controls this vital strategic exclave in the heart of NATO-allied...
The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is a political and geographic anomaly. Separated from Russia and situated on the Baltic Sea, the region is surrounded by NATO-member states Poland and Lithuania. It's...
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Libya's civil war is the only conflict in the Middle East where both sides...
The airspace over Libya is getting crowded.Since mid-2014, the country has been divided between two rival factions: the House of Representative (HOR) and its supporters in Operation Dignity and the...
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6 weird laws unique to the US military
US troops obey a different set of legal guidelines called the Uniform Code of Military Justice.While the UCMJ mirrors civilian law in many ways, there are some laws on the military books that are...
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Air Force veteran Chuck Norris wants to save the A-10
Air Force leaders wanting to send the A-10 Thunderbolt to the bone yard already have any number of lawmakers criticizing them from Capitol Hill.Now they’ve got “Lone Wolf McQuade” coming after...
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Russia is flexing its muscles in Central America
Russia has once again started to flex its muscles in a bid to rebuild its influence in the Central American state of Nicaragua, McClatchy DC reports. Moscow may strike a possible arms deal with...
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Here's how ISIS still has access to the global financial system
Sometimes described as the world's richest terrorist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS or ISIL) has famously raised tremendous amounts of money through oil smuggling, extensive...
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