The Tragic Story Of Outpost Restrepo Sums Up The Whole Afghan War
Troops nicknamed Afghanistan's Korengal Valley "Death Valley" for a reason.If it wasn't the sheer amount of bombs dropped (more than in the rest of Afghanistan combined at one point), it was the number...
View ArticleLeaked Pentagon Report: The F-35 Won't Stand A Chance In Aerial Combat
According to an article published by the Washington Times, the F-35A, the Conventional Take Off and Landing version of the Joint Strike Fighter, would be defeated in aerial combat because of its...
View ArticleIslamic Radicals In Syria Blow Up 'Pagan Shrine,' Get Pelted With Cinder Blocks
Today on EA WorldView's Syria Live Coverage, Jame's Miller posted a YouTube video showing of a group of men in "northern Syria" saying well-known Muslim sayings and then blowing up a "pagan shrine"...
View ArticleThe World Looks Away As China Stonewalls Tibet
Five years after an explosion of unrest on the Tibetan plateau, the region is again in crisis. This time the world is looking awayINSIDE a small monastery in China’s Qinghai province, a red-robed monk...
View ArticleNorth Korea Says 'Prepare For War' After Latest Sanctions
Dictator Kim Jong Un has cancelled the nonaggression pact and closed its shared border with the South, in the latest sign of rising tensions, according toCBS News.The Daily Mail also reported this...
View ArticleBin Laden's Son-In-Law Spent Much Of Past Decade In Iranian Prison
Osama bin Laden's recently captured son-in-law may have valuable intelligence from the extensive time he spent in Iranian prison, U.S. officials told NBC News.CIA agents seized Sulaiman Abu Ghaith in...
View Article5 Extreme Strategies People Used To Paid Off Credit Debt
We've all heard of the usual ways people try to save or generate more money to pay off their debts: cutting out the daily latte, brown-bagging lunch, getting a weekend job, or starting a side business...
View ArticleNorth Korea Is Not Even Close To Hitting The US With A Nuke
As North Korea continues to talk of war against their neighbor to the south, they've also started to threaten the United States, saying that "thermonuclear war" may be on the horizon.Reality, yet...
View ArticleGuantanamo Guards Forced To Fire Rubber Bullets At Inmates For The First Time
A guard at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay fired a non-lethal bullet at detainees last year after one tried to climb a fence and others were throwing rocks at the guard tower, officials...
View ArticleNorth Korean Troops Explode Into Bizarre Hysterical Frenzy During Kim Jong-Un...
A North Korea state news video shows leader Kim-Jong-un visiting troops, who immediately go into an emotional frenzy.The description of the video says these frontline troops shelled the South in 2010 —...
View ArticleConcerns Grow As Local Police Look More And More Like The Military
With an influx in federal cash from Department of Homeland Security grants, local police departments nationwide have been outfitting their officers with armored vehicles, surveillance drones, and...
View ArticleEgyptians Are Terrified About What Could Happen On Saturday
In late January there were huge riots in Port Said, Egypt, after a court sentenced 21 people to death in the aftermath of a February 2012 soccer riot that left more than 75 people dead. Things could be...
View ArticleANALYST: Korean Slip-Up Could Be 'Disastrous'
North Korea's consistently belligerent rhetoric reached new heights this week as a general said the country has a long-range missile armed with nuclear warheads on standby, and supreme leader Kim...
View ArticleHere's What Would've Happened If That Plane Collided With The Drone Over JFK
On Mar. 4, 2013, at approximately 1:15 p.m. LT, the pilot of Alitalia Flight AZ608, a Boeing 777 registered “EI-ISE”, flying from Rome Fiumicino to New York John F. Kennedy international Airport,...
View ArticleHere's 20,000 Well-Armed Reasons Why North Korea Should Chill Out
Every year, 20-some-odd thousand troops from the Republic of Korea and the United States get all their loudest, flashiest toys together, churn up the ocean, and culminate by throwing an exclusive party...
View ArticleJailed Special Forces Hero Will Find Out Soon If His Conviction Will Be...
AN SAS sniper jailed for possessing a war trophy given to him by the Iraqi army will learn this week whether his conviction will be quashed.Sgt Danny Nightingale received an 18-month custodial sentence...
View ArticleOrganized Crime Hackers Are The True Threat To American Infrastructure
CHINESE hackers may get all the notoriety, but their cyber-security exploits against American targets are chickenfeed compared with the damage done by organised crime. This past week, a large...
View ArticleSouth Korea Is Talking Seriously About Developing Its Own Nukes
In the latest sign of rising tensions, many influential South Korean politicians and journalists are calling for the development of the South's own nuclear weapons arsenal, reports theNew York Times...
View ArticleThis Chart Make It Pretty Clear That The US Military Can Afford Cuts
This chart from blogger Dave Manual makes clear the absurdity of griping about defense cuts.Adjusted for inflation, the U.S. is spending more than twice as much now on defense as it did in 2001 — and...
View ArticleThree Dead In Military Plane Crash In Washington State
Local Spokane news affiliate KREM has reported that the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office is confirming that a military plane out of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island has crashed and taken with it the...
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