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There Is Only One Afghan Army Battalion Able To Fight Without Help From NATO
Afghan national army and police units have started the slow process of shedding reliance on NATO coalition trainers as NATO leaders struggle to define what operating independent means for Afghan...
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Here's How The Military Prepares For A Nuclear Or Biological Catastrophe
Through this past week and continuing into August 5,000 servicemembers and Department of Defense civilian personnel are converging on Muscatatuck Urban Training Center and various other locations...
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Senator Tom Coburn Is Doing All He Can To Get Army Soldiers A New And Better...
A Republican senator released his hold on the Army’s next acquisitions chief’s confirmation Wednesday while chastising Army senior leaders on the Senate floor for making soldier rifles one of the...
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The Pentagon's Fighting Back Against People Who Lie About Being In The Military
The Pentagon posted the names of the recipients for 68 of the service crosses awarded since 9/11 on the Defense Department’s first medals website designed to protect against military fakers. Military...
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AMERICANS: Check Out Your Latest Huge Defense Purchases
It seems like the Pentagon was also glued to the television last week, watching the Olympics instead of buying more weapon systems. Even though the Department of Defense spent $7.5 billion in a week...
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Iran Has More Than 5,000 Mines It Can Use To Block The Strait Of Hormuz
Iran has been threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz since last year and a new book out by David Crist offers insight into why those threats should to be taken seriously. Tony Capaccio at Bloomberg...
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Injured British Vets Discovered This 1,400-Year-Old Soldier On An Archeology Dig
Injured British soldiers working as volunteer archaeologists discovered the remains of warriors who died more than 1,400 years ago, Maev Kennedy of the Guardian reports. The discovery astonished...
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Here Is How Israel Would Respond To An All-Out Missile Attack From Iran
Iran's possible nuclear program is dominating news from the Middle-East because Israel knows if it perfects a thermonuclear device, Tehran likely has the ability to deliver it aboard some of its...
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The US Finally Agrees To Care For Marines Poisoned By Camp Lejune Drinking...
The government continues to struggle to provide veterans with the health care and transition assistance they need. But an overdue Congress got one right this week in passing the “Honoring America’s...
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How Israel Received Weapons-Grade Nuclear Material From a US Company
On July 19, 1969, U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger wrote the following about Israel's nuclear weapons program: "There is circumstantial evidence that some fissionable material available...
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The World Was Never Closer To Nuclear War Than On Jan. 25, 1995
In the 67 years since the first nuclear weapon was used, there is only one time the so-called nuclear briefcases were broken out and opened up, and on January 25, 1995 they nearly launched Russia's...
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The Army Lost Control Of The Missile Defense Agency For The First Time Ever
Control of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency has been in the hands of the Army since Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983. And while recent events aren't entirely to blame for...
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White Supremacist Groups May Be Actively Recruiting US Servicemembers
Are white supremacists recruiting from within the ranks of the US military? That question – revived by killings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin this week – has been the fear of civil rights groups like...
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These Are The 20 Aircraft Carriers In Service Today
Despite aircraft carriers immense cost, the Navy believes there is no replacing a well-armed, aircraft equipped, sovereign piece of U.S. territory, powered by dual nuclear reactors. Former Defense...
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An Afghan Police Squad Invited US Special Forces Soldiers To Dinner And...
An Afghan police commander and his men invited at least three U.S. Special Forces soldiers to dinner Thursday to discuss security, and killed them in an apparent ambush. Abdul Malik at Reuters reports...
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It Is Now Possible To Download An AR-15 Assault Rifle Using 3D Printing
One of the major possibilities in the future of gun control — and manufacturing in general — is the potential of 3D printers to build items from scratch. That has led to at least one person designing...
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The Three Things The US Military Has Learned In Afghanistan
As defense budget wranglings continue on Capitol Hill, much of the debate about one of the Pentagon’s largest expenses – Afghanistan – centers around just how effective the decade-long fight has been....
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Three Things Every American Needs To Know About Defense Cuts
The House of Representatives approved in July a bill that’s likely to spark a showdown on military spending. In the face of looming defense cuts and amped-up warnings on Capitol Hill, there are three...
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WIKILEAKS: Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge...
The U.S. cable networks won't be covering this one tonight (not accurately, anyway), but Trapwire is making the rounds on social media today—it reportedly became a Trending hashtag on Twitter earlier...
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Westboro Baptist Church Promises They Will Continue To Torment Fallen...
Westboro Baptist Church has pushed back against a new law that prohibits protesting at military funerals. The "Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012" act, which...
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