REPORT: North Korea Fires Off Two Short-Range Missiles Into East Sea
A military officer has anonymously tipped the Yonhap news agency that North Korea "test fired" two short range missiles into the East Sea Friday."The launch was seen as testing its capability for...
View ArticleShipyard Worker Imprisoned After Setting Submarine On Fire So He Could Leave...
After setting fire to a nuclear submarine so he could get out of work, a 25-year-old shipyard employee has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution of $400 million,...
View ArticleFBI Officer At Armed Standoff Has His Rifle Sight On Backward
Most military services teach "attention to detail." That the slightest lack of attention to detail can result in lives lost.The fellows pictured here are not military, and certainly not in combat. They...
View ArticleThe CIA Can No Longer Stonewall Requests For Records On Drone Strikes
The Central Intelligence Agency must provide more information about America's use of predator drones for targeted killings overseas, a federal appeals court in Washington D.C. ruled today.The U.S....
View ArticleThe Army's New Guardian Attack Helicopter Is A Total Beast
One of the military's baddest attack helicopters just got a little bit tougher.The Army recently fielded a new version of Boeing Apache series — the AH-64E "Guardian" — to replace the "Longbow."The...
View ArticleWe Just Visited The Rarely Seen Side Of Guantanamo Bay
The U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is more than just a prison.While the detention facility has gained infamy for housing enemy combatants since 2002, locking up terrorism suspects is just a...
View ArticlePentagon: North Korean Missiles Can Reach The United States
In response to continued threats from North Korea, the Pentagon is beefing up its missile defense shield, planning to add 14 missile interceptors to the 30 already stationed in Alaska and California,...
View ArticleRussia Is Desperate To Avoid A Sanctioned 'Proxy War' With The West In Syria
Iran is stepping up arms shipments to Syria. It has trained and funded 50,000 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters. And it has Russia as a political umbrella in the U.N, according to recent reports.While it...
View ArticleSequester Crushes Small Defense Firms While The Biggies Pivot To Cyber
Sequester budget cuts totaling to $47 billion won't even touch the big fish, according to a Leigh Munsil Politico report.Instead, law makers are more likely to cut off the little fish."Lawmakers have...
View ArticleThe Real Cost Of War... [PHOTO]
After more than a decade of war in the Middle East, it's easy to forget.Lesleigh Coyer, 25, of Saginaw, Michigan, lies down in front of the grave of her brother, Ryan Coyer, who served with the U.S....
View ArticleThe Most Incredible Photos Of America's Marines So Far This Year
Maybe I'm biased.The Marine Corps actually taught me, among other things, photography. Paid me for it, in fact.I served four years as a Combat Correspondent — a Marine photojournalist — and saw a lot...
View ArticleCIA And M16 Knew Iraq Didn't Have WMDs Before 2003 Invasion
Fresh evidence is revealed today about how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels by Saddam Hussein's foreign minister and his head of intelligence that Iraq had no active weapons of mass...
View ArticleNorth Korea's Prison Camps Are Absolutely Horrifying
As international leaders fear what Pyongyang may do beyond its borders, perhaps the biggest issue is what happens within.North Korea operates a growing network of prison camps containing up to 200,000...
View ArticleFormer Imagineer Produces Smell Of Burning Flesh For The Defense Dapartment
There's a few smells that are difficult to forget: gasoline and gun powder should go without mentioning, but there's plenty more unsavory smells out there.Now there's a company called ScentAir, started...
View ArticleWhen Will The Leaders Who Took Us To War In Iraq Finally Admit They Made A...
As America marks the 10th anniversary of our costly and ineffective war in Iraq, I am mourning a different anniversary, too.Two years ago my mother was killed in a car accident. A doctor's wife,...
View ArticleThe Oldest City In Human History Is On The Verge Of Being Ravaged By War
The Syrian capital of Damascus— inhabited as early as 8,000 to 10,000 BCE — is arguably the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.Syrian rebels — bolstered by an influx of Croatian weapons...
View ArticleAmerica Is STILL Paying For The Civil War
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service members and their families grapple with the...
View ArticleUS Contractor Charged With Passing Nuclear Secrets To A Chinese Woman
A U.S. defense contractor in Hawaii has been charged with passing classified information about nuclear weapons and ballistic missile systems to a Chinese woman, according to a press release from the...
View ArticleSeven Marines Killed In Tragic Training Accident In Nevada
Seven U.S. Marines were killed and at least seven wounded during a training exercise on Monday night when a mortar round exploded inside a tube, NBC News reports.The Marines, from 1st Battalion, 9th...
View ArticleA Chinese National Appears To Be Fighting With Al-Qaeda In Syria
There's been evidence of a Japanese trucker taking pictures in Aleppo and a Russian judge reporting on government troops near Damascus, and now it appears a Chinese national is fighting with jihadist...
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