The 14 Most Impressive Women In The US Military
Less than a century ago, it was rare to see women in the military, and yet now women fight in combat, command airstrikes, pilot fighter jets, and oversee medical operations.We've found the 14 most...
View ArticleWild Computer Hack Remotely Controls Cars
Hackers have found out how to remotely take control of your car.Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek will show off their car hacks at this years DefCon 21 on Friday, August 2, in Las Vegas.Apparently, the...
View ArticleSoldier To Receive Medal Of Honor For Incredible Bravery After His Afghan...
An American soldier will be awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions while defending a remote outpost in Afghanistan overrun by hundreds of Taliban fighters, Stars & Stripes reports.Staff Sgt. Ty...
View ArticleLife As A US Drone Operator: 'It's Like Playing A Video Game For Four Years'
"It is a lot like playing a video game," a former Predator drone operator matter-of-factly admits to the artist Omer Fast. "But playing the same video game four years straight on the same level." His...
View ArticleHere's A Quick Breakdown Of Russia's Massive Military Exercise
A week ago, the Russian military completed the largest spot check exercise it has conducted since 1991. The MOD has put out some information on the scale and units involved. The slides were helpfully...
View ArticleExperts Warn Of Disastrous Consequences To Huge Iraqi Jail Break
Counterterrorism and intelligence professionals are having difficulty coming to terms with the significance of the Al Qaeda jailbreak in Iraq that occurred early last week, reports Eli Lake of The...
View ArticleThree 'Hot Shot' Firefighters Had One Of The Most Moving Military Funerals We...
On July 11, family, friends, and colleagues gathered to say their final goodbyes to three firefighters who were part of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots who died in Arizona wildfires .Those three...
View ArticleTake A Ride On The Navy's Badass Hovercraft And Its Landing Craft Workhorse...
When the U.S. Navy wants to haul a few hundred tons of troops, material, or gear from ship to shore sailors use the Landing Craft Utility (LCU) or the Landing Craft Air Cushioned (LCAC) vehicle, a...
View ArticleBradley Manning Acquitted Of 'Aiding The Enemy,' Convicted Of 19 Counts...
Bradley Manning, who orchestrated the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history, has been acquitted of the most serious charge of aiding the enemy, which carried a possible sentence of...
View ArticleRecent Prison Breaks Are Fueling Al Qaeda's Global Comeback
The recent series of prison breaks is not coincidental.In less than a week, we have 500 senior Al Qaeda leaders escape during two assaults on prisons in Iraq, more than 1,000 in a prison assault in...
View ArticleOfficials Cite 'Due Process' In Refusal To Stop Paying Contractors Who...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army has refused to bar 43 individuals or companies from getting U.S. contracts in Afghanistan despite information that they support the Taliban or other enemies of U.S....
View ArticleNew NSA Leaks Show How Easily The Government Can See Almost Everything You Do...
National Security Agency documents provided to The Guardian by Edward Snowden reveal a system that, as of 2008, allowed analysts to search "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet,"...
View ArticleNSA's 'Widest-Reaching' System Could Read Facebook Chats And Private Messages
Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian has published a massive report detailing a NSA program called XKeyscore that is the spy agency's "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the Internet,...
View ArticleEven Tony Stark Would Be Impressed With Raytheon's Slow Motion Missile Video
Okay, it's not technically a missile, but the munition— an artillery projectile — certainly looks like a missile.Raytheon's assertion that"Analyses have shown that on average it takes at least 10...
View ArticleDespite 'Coup', Joint US-Egypt Military Exercise Will Go Forward
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States still plans to hold a major military exercise called Bright Star in Egypt in mid-September, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Wednesday, even after the...
View ArticleSmall-Town Police Departments Are Getting Billions In Big Military Hardware
In Iraq and Afghanistan, you'll find U.S. troops with M16 rifles, Humvee trucks, and high-tech surveillance equipment, but that military hardware is increasingly showing up in small-town police...
View ArticleNever Leave A Man Behind: Marine Finishes 5K With Lost Little Boy
Lance Cpl. Myles Kerr knew what he had to do when 9 year-old Boden Fuchs lost the group he was running an annual 5K race with and asked Kerr for help."'I was just doing what any man would do," Kerr...
View ArticleFort Hood Shooting Suspect Renounces US Citizenship And Denounces Democracy
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The Army psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage, just days before he's set to go on trial, has released more of his writings about America and Islam.Foxnews.com...
View ArticleThe FBI Is Terrified Of Hackers, And It Employs Them
The FBI is terrified of hackers, so it avoids them at all costs, unless of course the agency needs to buy some nifty cyber surveillance tools.Intel agents have been buying sophisticated "hacking"...
View ArticleFormer Soldier Turned NFL Cheerleader Caught On Tape In Alleged Drunken Rage,...
A NFL cheerleader who made headlines when she revealed she was a former Army officer wasn't so cheery the other night when her boyfriend caught her on camera allegedly beating him, pulling his hair,...
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