Why Syria Is Different From All Of The Other Arab Spring Uprisings
Arab Spring: Time from protests beginning to the president resigning or being killedEgypt: 17 daysTunisia: 28 daysLibya: 8 monthsYemen: 9.5 monthsSyria: 22 months and countingThere’s a little variation...
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Infographic Shows With Stunning Clarity How Domestic Drone Use Is The New Normal
It's a Pandora's Box we cannot close: drones are here to stay.Police use them, journalists use them, even the folks at Occupy Wall Street used them. The Federal Aviation Administration recently leapt...
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Congressional Inaction Could Kill A Valuable Navy Deal
Having failed to produce timely defense spending bills or avoid a chaotic end to a year-long march toward sequestration, the recently-deceased 112th Congress also failed to approve a normally prosaic...
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Bin Laden Movie Torture Scenes Are Totally Fiction: Ex-CIA Official
Bloody interrogations like those depicted in Hollywood's take on the hunt for Osama bin Laden "Zero Dark Thirty" never really happened, according to the former CIA official who ran such programs."The...
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U.S. Marine Corps Goes With Rolls Royce For Big Military Contract
Rolls-Royce has won another US military contract. Questor says buy.Rolls-Royce918pQuestor says: BuyDispelling some concerns about global defence spending, on Friday Rolls-Royce won a $52.2m (£32.6m)...
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John Brennan As CIA Chief Would Cement A New Era Of US Counterterrorism
There are multiple indications that this afternoon President Obama will nominate White House homeland-security and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to be the next director of the CIA.The move is...
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GREENWALD: CIA Nominee John Brennan Is Being Rewarded For Extremism And...
Prior to President Obama's first inauguration in 2009, a controversy erupted over reports that he intended to appoint John Brennan as CIA director. That controversy, in which I participated, centered...
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Let's Be Honest: Chuck Hagel Will Be The Next Secretary Of Defense
Despite attempts to stir up controversy about Obama defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, it seems likely that he will get the job.First of all, the only time a Secretary of Defense nominee has been...
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Former Obama Adviser: Drones Are Much More Destructive Than Officials Admit
The United States' use of drones is counter-productive, less effective than the White House claims, and is "encouraging a new arms race that will empower current and future rivals and lay the...
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China Could Be Spending More On Its Military Than The US By 2035
China's military budget has been exploding and could soon pass the US military budget in just over two decades.From a recent research note published by Societe Generale:Growing dispute with China and...
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Welcome To The Age Of Star Wars-Style Military Laser Beams
Right at the end of 2012 we reported on a laser beam missile defense system Lockheed developed that would make Israel's Iron Dome look wimpy.It turns out, German company Rheinmetall concurrently...
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A Marine Recounts How He Lost His Bomb Sniffing Dog In Combat
August 9th dawned scalding and dry across the Marjeh district of Helmand province, Afghanistan. In the blocks, a fertile swath of land watered by a canal network stretching dozens of square kilometers,...
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Brookings Fellow Sums Up Afghanistan Debacle In Two Short Paragraphs
Brookings Institute fellow and counterinsurgency expert Dr. Vanda Felbab-Brown did an AMA on Reddit Monday in which she nailed the problems with America's efforts in Afghanistan.Here's her response to...
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The US Is Accelerating A Military Policy Shift In Africa
In the weeks leading up to Chuck Hagel's nomination, the Pentagon announced plans to put specialized Army troops in 35 countries in Africa.Though the announcement came on Christmas Eve and didn't...
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US Defense Contractor Pays $5 Million Over Abu Ghraib Abuse
A US defense contractor accused of helping torture prisoners at Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison has paid former detainees more than $5 million to settle a lawsuit, according to regulatory filings...
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A Single Cyber Attack Could Take Out The Whole British Military
The British military's dependence on information technology means it could be "fatally compromised" by a cyber-attack but the government seems unprepared for such an event, lawmakers warned...
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Photo Found Of Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Mushroom Cloud Splitting In Two
A rare photo showing the mushroom cloud from the Hiroshima atomic bombing in two distinct parts, one above the other, has been discovered in the city, a museum curator said Wednesday.The...
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REPORT: The US Now Blames Iran For Kidnapping Former FBI Agent Robert Levinson
When Robert Levinson retired from the FBI, he launched a new private investigation career that in 2007 took him to Iran, where he was kidnapped and believed held in Southwest Asia ever since.At the...
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John Brennan's 2011 Claim About Civilian Drone Casualties Is Increasingly...
On June 29, 2011, chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama and CIA director nominee John Brennantold an audience that there had not been "a single collateral death" in covert U.S....
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Al-Qaeda Advances From Mali Stronghold
Al-Qaeda fighters have advanced beyond their stronghold in northern Mali for the first time, striking towards a vital garrison town protecting the route to the capital.The latest fighting raised fears...
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