The Pentagon has notified Congress that it plans to stop buying Russian Mi17 helicopters for Afghanistan and will start buying American helicopters, according to Radio Free Europe…
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Navy’s Fancy New Gun Can’t Be Fired Because Rounds Are $1 Million Each…
The Navy is scrapping production of rounds for its newest warship, citing costs of nearly $1 million per unit. “We don’t have an issue with the gun, and no issue with that ship carrying the gun. We have an issue on the price point”…
U.S. Casts One of Three Votes Against U.N. Resolution Condemning Nazism…
The Unites States says it was one of three countries to vote against a United Nations rights resolution that denounces the glorification of Nazism and other racially-charged trends around the world…
Three Green Berets Killed by Islamic State Infiltrator After CIA Ignored Warnings…
Green Berets Matthew Lewellen, Kevin McEnroe, and James Moriarty approached the Prince Faisal Airbase in Jordan in their vehicle along with one Jordanian military officer. They were assigned the IA mission, meaning inter-agency, as a part of the CIA’s Timber Sycamore covert operation…
Nobody Seems To Know How Terrorists Got A Bunch Of U.S. Military Equipment…Qatar? Turkey? Saudi Arabia?
How did Hezbollah, a military group in Lebanon listed as a Terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department get their hands on U.S. military equipment? Both the Lebanon government and the State Department deny they furnished Hezbollah with U.S. military equipment…
The New Red Scare by Andrew Cockburn…
“Welcome to the world of strategic analysis,” Ivan Selin used to tell his team during the Sixties, “where we program weapons that don’t work to meet threats that don’t exist.” Selin, who would spend the following decades as a powerful behind-the-scenes player in the Washington mandarinate…
U.S., British ‘Clean House’ to Delete Syria Terror Links…
US President Barack Obama has just given the Pentagon orders to assassinate commanders of the Al Nusra terror network in Syria. American media reports over the weekend say the new urgency arises from US intelligence fears that al Qaeda-affiliated groups are preparing to mount terror attacks…
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter Implies Russia and China Are “Enemies” of America. What Next?…
So: what has changed for him in all of that time? The weapons are more advanced; he expressed pride in that. And the former Warsaw Pact nations that were allied with the U.S.S.R. surrounding Russia, have increasingly joined NATO and become Russia’s enemies…
Nusra On The Run – Trump Induces First Major Policy Change On Syria…
The first significant step of the new administration comes while Trump is not even in offices. Obama, selfishly concerned with his historic legacy, suddenly makes a 180 degree turn and starts to implement Trump polices. Lets consider the initial position…
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Ankara Hopes for Reset of US-Turkey Relations Following Trump’s Election Win…
Turkey’s rush to congratulate Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election was an attempt to prepare ground for the reset of relations that have seen many bottlenecks under Obama administration…
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This Radical Leftist Oligarch Is Spending a Whopping $2M+ to Destroy Sheriff Arpaio…
Radical leftist billionaire George Soros gave a PAC, Maricopa Strong, two million dollars to work to remove Sheriff Joe Arpaio from office. It’s part of his apparent plan to elect local prosecutors who may back his criminal leniency and pro-mass immigration agenda…
America’s Rocky Road to Raqqa…
It looks more and more like an assault on Raqqa won’t occur at all. The reason is simple. The strategy is half-baked even by U.S. standards. The effort to take back Mosul is off to a dangerous enough start as it is.
Air Cocaine: the Wild, True Story of Drug-Running, Arms Smuggling and Contras at a Backwoods Airstrip in the Clintons’ Arkansas…
This is a long and fascinating read…
U.S. Air Force Command Apologize for Close Fly-by in Syria…
American military officials have offered apologies to their Russian colleagues for an incident over Syria, in which US and Russian military jets were involved in a “near-miss” situation…
Miami Herald Journalist Sues Defense Department Over Guantánamo Staffing Data…
One of the country’s leading reporters on the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is suing the Pentagon over its delay in providing figures for staffing levels at the controversial facility…
Afghanistan: Military Confirms U.S. Troops Still Banned from Attacking Taliban…
Being a member of the Taliban is not a justification for U.S. troops to attack a terrorist in Afghanistan, even as the terrorist group expands its territorial control across the war-ravaged nation and security conditions continue to deteriorate…
Russian Missile System ‘Very Capable’ of Shooting Down U.S. Planes…
The Russian air defence system in Syria has closed down the US’s military options. Hillary Clinton knows it and her policies in Syria if she is elected President will be simply a continuation of Obama’s…
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Clinton’s “No-Fly Zone” over Syria Will Not “Save Lives”. It Will Lead to War with Russia…
In a Senate Arms Services Committee hearing, Dunford said, “Right now, Senator, for us to control all of the airspace in Syria it would require us to go to war, against Syria and Russia,…” (Senate Armed Services Committee, September 22, 2016)…
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Carter Suspends California National Guard Bonus Repayments…
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on Wednesday ordered the Pentagon to suspend all efforts to collect reimbursement from thousands of California National Guard members who were improperly given enlistment bonuses…
Major New Court Ruling Says “Even The President” Can’t Declare Torture Lawful…
“While executive officers can declare the military reasonableness of conduct amounting to torture, it is beyond the power of even the president to declare such conduct lawful,” wrote appellate Judge Barbara Keenan…
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