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Before Female Infantry Officers Serve In The Marines, They Have To Survive...
The Marine Corps Infantry Officer Course is a grueling unapologetic machine, producing only a few hundred elite, light infantry officers per year.On a quarterly basis, about 100 candidates attempt to...
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Google's Eric Schmidt Outlines A Chilling Drone-Filled Future
Google's chairman has sketched out a future world in which cyberterrorists are targeted by government drone strikes, online identities are taken hostage and held for ransom, and parents explain online...
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Winning The War In Mali Is The Easy Part
By all accounts, France's military intervention to prevent al-Qaeda seizing control of Mali has been a great success.Within a week of the deployment of around 2,500 combat troops, the French have now...
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It Turns Out Militants In Mali Did NOT Burn Thousands Of Priceless Manuscripts
On Monday, as France announced that it had retaken the historic desert city of Timbuktu in northern Mali, reports indicated that the Islamist extremists who had controlled the city since April set fire...
View ArticleThese CEOs Subjected Themselves To A 3-Day Marine Corps Field Course
Executives have been known to visit Marine (any service really) bases to get barked at by drill instructors, put through obstacle courses, or taught leadership skills.Jim Michaels, a journalist with...
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Suddenly It Looks Like Assad Could Win The Syrian War
Many of the latest reports out of Syria indicate that President Bashar al-Assad has regained the upper hand against the rebels.And the UN special envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, said as much on...
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UN Officials Are Worried 200K Armed Libyan Rebels Could Join The Fight In Mali
There are still 200,000 armed fighters in "revolutionary brigades" in Libya, a top UN envoy said Tuesday, expressing fears that Mali's conflict could spillover into the country.Foreign governments have...
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Israeli Jets Struck A Convoy Entering Lebanon From Syria [REPORTS]
On Tuesday Israel launched an airstrike against a convoy of trucks moving near the Lebanon-Syria border, a senior U.S. official and a Lebanese security official told The Wall Street Journal.The strike...
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Drug Linked To Deaths In US Military Kills London Marathoner Mid-Run
A young runner who collapsed and died during the London marathon had "significant" levels of a banned amphetamine-like fatburning supplement in her system, an inquest has heard.Claire Squires, 30,...
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CHART OF THE DAY: The Jaw-Dropping Decline In Military Spending That Clubbed GDP
Why did GDP decline?Simple, because of a massive decline in military spending that's associated with war drawdown (not sequester/budget cuts).Here's the chart that shows that this quarter's military...
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The IAEA Says It Has Inspectors At Iran's Fordo Nuclear Site And There Has...
Conflicting reports of a recent explosion at Iran's Fordo nuclear facility appear to have been put to rest.(This is an updated post)Reza Kahlili originally reported for WND on the "blast": “The blast...
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Don't Fret About The Rocket Launchers That Keep Turning Up At Gun Buybacks
Gun buybacks across the country are grabbing some serious headlines, especially when they mention turn-ins of military rocket launchers.In December, the Los Angeles Police Chief proudly displayed one,...
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SYRIA: Israel Bombed A Military Research Center Near Damascus
The Syrian military claims that early Wednesday Israeli warplanes bombed a military research center northwest of Damascus — not a convoy of trucks headed to Lebanon as previously reported.Earlier...
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Defense Spending Fell At The Fastest Rate In 40 Years
We've mentioned a few times today that GDP went negative primarily because of the big drop in defense spending.But we didn't realize just how historic the drop was.JPMorgan economist Michael Feroli put...
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Hamas Is Teaching Kids Hebrew To 'Avoid Israeli Tricks'
Hamas won't officially recognize Israel's existence, but that doesn't mean they are ignoring them.The group, which the U.S. recognizes as a foreign terrorist organization, has integrated Hebrew into...
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This Is What Regret Looks Like To The US Air Force
Back in 1997, the US Air Force choose between the F-22 Raptor and the YF-23 for its fifth-generation fighter.The YF-23 had a greater flight range, giving the fighter the potential to strike much...
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The Best Fake Picture You'll See Today From The Mid-East
This picture was spreading around online this morning, credited to a UAE Facebook page hosting a story supposed to have happened this week.Though a good tale, it appears the image at least is from 2011...
View ArticleFrench Tigre Helicopters Bomb Targets In Mali [VIDEO]
There isn't much media footage coming out of Mali and the only way to get interesting and accurate updates from West Africa is through the French Armed Forces.After releasing drone camera footage of...
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Chinese Hackers Have Targeted The New York Times Over Wen Jiabao Investigation
The New York Times has claimed that Chinese hackers have "persistently" attacked its computers over the past four months following the an investigation into Premier Wen Jiabao's family's fortune.The...
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North Korea Placed Under Martial Law Ahead Of Expected Nuclear Test
North Korea has been placed under martial law and Kim Jong-un has told his front-line troops to "be ready for a war," according to South Korean media reports.In an emergency meeting of his top defence...
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