Ex-Wall Streeter Created A New Way To Help Military Veterans
Like many working on Wall Street, Sidney Goodfriend has an impressive resume.After graduating from Johns Hopkins and getting an MBA from Columbia, he started trading stocks and began a long and...
View ArticleSome Of The Worst Things That Military Members Have Said To Their Senior...
I once told a Marine Corps colonel that I was going to knife his donkey.I had been living in the dangerous parts of town in Iraq for about three months and when I came back, saw that my Marines were...
View ArticleFour Cybersecurity Breaches That Could Rattle The World
The cyber-ruffians who briefly tanked the stock market recently by faking a news tweet about an attack at the White House showed how much damage can be done with a few well-placed keystrokes. Those who...
View ArticleIsrael's Huge Airstrike On Damascus Is As Much About Iran As It Is Syria
Early Sunday Israeli jets targeted the Syrian military's fortress on Qasioun Mountain, Damascus, causing the most powerful explosions near the capital in more than two years of fighting.The strike on...
View ArticleHere's A Tactical And Technical Breakdown Of Israel's Recent Air Strikes
For the second time in three days, strike aircraft of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) attacked targets in the vicinity of Damascus International Airport. The targets are alleged to have been shipments of...
View ArticleActivist Is Trying To Get 10,000 People To March On DC With Loaded Rifles
Independence Day in Washington, D.C. may see bigger fireworks if the "Open Carry March" put forth by a Marine veteran turned libertarian activist actually goes forward.Adam Kokesh, 31, is planning a...
View ArticleAn Up-Close Look At Roman Abramovich's $1 Billion Superyacht
There's rich, and then there's the superyacht rich.And yachts don't get any more super than Roman Abramovich's 553-foot long $1 billion plus flagship the Eclipse. The Eclipse is currently docked at...
View ArticleThe Military's X-51 Waverider Finally Traveled Five Times The Speed Of Sound
An unmanned X-51A Waverider test plane achieved an incredible speed of more than 3800 mph on May 1, reaching Mach 5.1 over the Pacific Ocean.The X-51A traveled more than 230 nautical miles in roughly...
View ArticleThe Air Force 'Chief Of Sexual Assault Prevention' Just Got Busted — For...
An allegedly inebriated Air Force Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski has been arrested under suspicion of sexual battery for an incident that occurred in Arlington May 5.At 12:35 a.m., according to the police...
View ArticlePolice Bring Iraq-Style 'Counter Insurgency' Strategy To US City
In the year since Massachusetts State Trooper Mike Katone was given permission to use counter insurgency tactics in the city of Springfield, crime has dropped as much as 25% in the targetted areas, CBS...
View ArticleAstounding 'Mask' Artwork From Combat Veterans Uncovers America's Invisible...
Alcohol, violence, sex, suicide.These are the outlets we hear most often about when the conversation touches on veterans and Post Traumatic Stress, but a few vets have actually turned to artwork as a...
View ArticleNorth Korea Stands Down
For two weeks a pair of North Korean (DPRK) Musudan missiles have stood poised to blast skyward.No more.Unnamed U.S. officials told Reuters and BBC the missiles are now on standby and according to a...
View ArticleA Rare Look Inside The Air Force's 'Commando Solo' Psychological Operations...
The EC-130J Commando Solo (00-1934/STEEL74) of the 193 SOS, operating out of Sigonella, in Italy, became particularly famous in 2011, during the Libya Air War.The aircraft broadcast messages both...
View ArticlePENTAGON: Chinese Hackers Have Stolen Data From 'Almost Every Major US...
For the first time the Obama administration has explicitly accused China’s military of hacking into computer systems of the U.S. government and its defense contractors."The accusations relayed in the...
View ArticlePulitzer Winner Writes Sharp Takedown Of Failed US Civilian Efforts In Iraq...
Reuters investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner David Rohde covered Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq for eight years.Now he's written a book, titled "Beyond War: Reimagining American...
View ArticleOBAMA ON MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULT: It's A 'Betrayal' — 'I Expect Consequences'
President Barack Obama harshly condemned sexual assault in the military Monday, and said that his administration is stepping up efforts to "root this out." Speaking to reporters at a press conference,...
View ArticleAir Force Strips 17 Officers Of Authority To Control And Launch Nuclear Missiles
AP Exclusive: Air Force sidelines 17 ICBM launch officers; commander cites 'rot' within systemWASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force stripped an unprecedented 17 officers of their authority to control — and,...
View ArticleWhat Kind Of Target Did The Israeli Air Force Really Hit In Syria?
Twice between May 3 and 5, the Israeli Air Force conducted air strikes in Syria using Precision Guided Munitions.The first raid hit a convoy believed to be moving Fateh-110 missiles destined for...
View Article'67 Interview With Famous Spook About US Coup In Syria Could Easily Apply Today
Western diplomats, politicians and analysts have combined to float quite a few options to supposedly resolve the two-year civil war engulfing much of Syria right now.Talk of everything from a no-fly...
View ArticleAmerica's New Way Of Dealing With 'Terrorists' Is Even More Ruthless Than...
Last week John Bellinger, the lawyer who drafted the legal framework for drone strikes under George W. Bush, accused the Obama administration of overusing drone strikes because of a reluctance to...
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