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'Double-Tap' Strikes In Pakistan Create Chaos To Start 2013
So far in 2013 Pakistan has been messier than usual, mostly due to brutal "double tap" tactics employed by both radical Sunni militants and busy CIA drones.The Associated Press reports that a series of...
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The Air Force Wants Its Nukes A Lot Smaller And More Portable
The new year came with finishing touches on the Air Force's new $4.2 million "Nuke School" and a $3 million prize for research proposals for an upgraded mobile nuclear missile fleet.The initiative is a...
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Britain's New Stealth Bomber Is Unmanned And Fully Autonomous (BAL)
Britain's Royal Air Force has been using Tornado jets as bombers for decades and is already building a fleet of new Typhoons, but BAE hopes to supplement those forces with a powerful new drone.The...
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Orlando Florida Patrolled By Surveillance Drones As Early As This Summer
When Congress passed a bill last February allowing unmanned drones to fly American skies it became only a matter of time before UAVs patrolled U.S. cities for local law enforcement.While most drones in...
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North Korea 'Preparing New Nuclear Test'
North Korea vowed on Monday to strengthen its defences amid concerns the country may conduct a nuclear test as a follow-up to last month's long-range rocket launch.Citing US hostility, Pyongyang's...
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Japan To Send Two Massive Patrol Ships To The East China Sea
Japan will deploy two more patrol ships to boost its defence of islands at the centre of a territorial row with China and has conducted its first drill simulating the recapture of an isle seized by...
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REPORT: Assad Has Left Syria For A Warship In The Mediterranean
After nearly two years of conflict and 117,000 displaced Syrians UPI reports Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family have left the country and live aboard a warship manned with Russian...
View ArticleReports Of Russia's Gigantic Navy Upgrades Are Totally Overblown
The commissioning of the Yuri Dolgoruky Borei-class SSBN this week, which follows closely on the heels of the launching of the Vladimir Monomakh SSBN at the end of December, has made a number of...
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Cloud Computing Has Officially Brought The Global Cyber War To The US Doorstep
The U.S. has been very aggressive in deploying cyber attacks in recent years, and it appears that subsequent concerns that America invited attacks on vulnerable U.S. networks were well-founded.In fact,...
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Nuclear Missile Officer Describes Life In The Underground Bunker
A Reddit user named Vmikey popped up an AMA today claiming to be a nuclear missile tech who worked in a giant underground silo.Naturally we were intrigued. Reddit moderators independently verified him,...
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America's 'Top Gun' F-14 Was Only Ever Sold To Its Greatest Mid-East Opponent
The F-14 Tomcat may be the most pined for military aircraft of a generation. When talking to senior Navy officers we've heard more than once how some admiral is always going on about how much they miss...
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Here's Some Advice: If You Happen Upon Military Ordnance, Don't Pick It Up
A Columbia, S.C. man allegedly found three pieces of "military-style" ordnance (bombs, shells, etc.) in a dumpster, picked them out, and took them home with him.Jason Old of WISTV 10 reports that...
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Americans Applied To Buy More Than 4.5 Million Guns In The Last Two Months
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) received more than 2 million requests for background checks in November and more than 2.7 million in December, Jim Hoft of The Gateway...
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Experts: Palestinian Peace Process Dead If Netanyahu Wins Israeli Election
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process is dead if Binyamin Netanyahu wins next week's Israeli election, leading academics have warned – even if he forms a government with centrists rather than the...
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China To Survey Islands Disputed With Japan As Part Of Mapping Exercise
China is to carry out a geographical survey of islands in the East China Sea at the centre of a bitter dispute with Japan, state media said.The survey of the Diaoyu islands -- known as Senkakus in...
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Wal-Mart Plans To Hire 100,000 Veterans Over Five Years
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, said it plans to hire more than 100,000 veterans in the United States over the next five years, a move supported by First Lady Michelle Obama.Most of...
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The Pentagon's New 30,000-lb MOP Bomb Is Ready To Go
Senior Pentagon officials told Congress the nation's largest conventional bomb, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), is ready for action.The Air Force said as much back in June after rushing the MOP...
View ArticleChinese State Agents Abducted This Young Man For Talking About Censorship
With its global economy and ostensible reform, China gets a pretty good rap — but just when the Communist country seems not so bad, a video like this pops up.Max Fisher at The Washington Post points to...
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US Fighters Join Japan's F-15s Over The Disputed East China Sea Islands
US and Japanese fighter jets on Tuesday carried out joint air exercises, an official said, days after Chinese and Japanese military planes shadowed each other near disputed islands in the East China...
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France May Find It A Lot Harder To Get Out Of Mali
On Tuesday French President Francois Hollandetold RFI radio that the with the help of African troops being deployed, "in one more week we can restore Mali's territorial integrity."Judging from the...
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