“Europe will have to take on more responsibility.” On Monday, President Donald Trump ordered the U.S military to withdraw 9,500 out of over 34,000 troops from Germany by September, citing that Berlin had owed payment ...
“The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in ...
“You have two good people and they’re arguing… I’m good at settling these arguments. So I may look into it in great detail, in detail and I’ll be able to figure it out very fast.” ...
When a PR crisis threatened to take down one of the nation’s most well-known veterans organizations, author Doug White investigated the ensuing Wounded Warrior Project scandal and found a web of false allegations. The Wounded ...
“Every member of Congress who voted to give the most corrupt, unhinged, and unstable president in history $738 billion to fight endless wars…must never tell us that we cannot afford Medicare for All or a ...
As tensions in the Middle East worsen, a recent military ranking index suggests an Iran-Israel military conflict would pit two equally formidable military forces. According to the annual Military Strength Ranking report compiled by Global ...
“What’s happened here is criminal.” Despite more than one trillion dollars in real annual defense funding, the Pentagon has failed to provide safe housing for thousands of its service members. Problems like leaking ceilings, mold, ...
Israeli sources say that the Iron Dome system has so far intercepted 85 percent of all Gaza projectiles. A recent report by the Marine Corps Times highlighted an interest by the U.S. Marines Corps (USMC) ...
Anonymous U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal that the goal of the missile is to reduce accidental casualties and kill only the intended target. The CIA’s new weapon of mass destruction is intended to ...
“And now we are heading towards a full-scale arms race of artificial intelligence, which is very, very bad news.” Artificial intelligence will play a pivotal role in shaping the future global order, as countries compete ...
Lockheed Martin’s CEO took home $20 million while enlisted soldiers got just $20,000. Why? Because corporations have hijacked the military. (By Lindsay Koshgarian, OtherWords) In tax season, most of us think more about getting our forms ...
A change in federal accounting rules means the government can lie on its public accounting books and lie about how much it is spending on national security operations. On October 4, 2018, the Federal Accounting ...
Image Credit: Hyderabad: Army chief General Bipin Rawat presents the Chief of Air Staff Sword of Honour to Flying Officer Sukhmandeep Singh for standing first in overall merit in Pilot Course at Combined Graduation Parade at ...
A new crucial report on the strength of the US military was written by politicians who all have ties to the military industrial complex – bringing motive into question. A panel of 12 former national ...
Last week a Russian weapons maker firm, TsNiiTochMash, told Russian media outlet TASS that it had already tested a prototype of a military exoskeleton they call Ratnik-3. Nextgov called the suit similar to the U.S. military exoskeleton ...
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is plowing ahead and setting up the framework for a new Space Force even while Congress has not yet given its approval. The Pentagon is moving forward by setting up ...
The conduct of our military and CIA has become more than questionable. They have become a law unto themselves with no regard for the Constitutional restrictions that have been placed upon them. I am not ...
In brief, you will find that the illogical direction in which the Pentagon and Department of State have directed this nation’s foreign affairs and military has its roots in the defeat of the United States ...
A video posted online in late 2017 of a U.S. green beret who fired into the driver side window of a passenger truck in Afghanistan sparked an internal Army investigation which found a toxic environment ...
In something out of a plot from the latest blockbuster sci-fi movie, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on a project that connects the minds of troops to military technologies. The ...
A remote-controlled aircraft, also known as a drone or unmanned aerial vehicle, took off from North Dakota in the United States and touched down at the Royal Air Force (RAF) Fairford in Gloucestershire, England. The ...
Last month, the U.S President Donald Trump sent sharply worded letters to member countries of NATO, demanding the increase in their defense spending. As the New York Times reported, Trump also threatened to “adjust” the ...
“At some point, I realized I could not in good faith recommend anyone join Google, knowing what I knew. I realized if I can’t recommend people join here, then why am I still here?” About ...
“It is a sign of courage and strength to come forward and get help.” – Give an Hour If the body is damaged or injured, most of us would be comfortable asking for help. But, if our ...
Here we are again, another run-up to another war in the Middle East. As the mainstream media remains obsessive over the latest Stormy Daniels-Trump related controversy or James Comey’s immature book tour, the winds of ...
Trump Strikes Syria On this Friday, April the 13th, President Trump launched a direct attack against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in retaliation for an alleged chemical attack on Syrian civilians last week. This strike on ...
In 1975 Congress investigated the CIA out of concern that former President Nixon may have used the CIA in an abuse of his powers. Nixon had resigned from office the previous year on August 9, ...
The “Made In China” label will, in the near future, be replaced by the “Created In China” label. Having proven themselves to be a manufacturing behemoth, China is now going all out to become an ...
US Niger: When our soldiers kill and die in wars we don’t know about and can’t end, we’re not a democracy anymore. (OtherWords, by Peter Certo) In our military-revering culture, it’s a strange thing for a ...
Washington nominated a Raytheon executive to be Secretary of the U.S. Army; proving once again how cozy Washington is with defense contractors. In another example of the Washington revolving door, yesterday the White House announced ...
The F-35 cost: It’s become the most expensive defense program in world history, at around US$1.5 trillion before the fighter is phased out in 2070. (Michael P. Hughes, Francis Marion University) The F-35 was billed as ...
There always another $27 billion or lying around, it seems, when Lockheed Martin needs more money for expensive weapons system like the F-35. The nation’s most expensive weapons program isn’t done showing U.S. taxpayers how much it ...
(Reposted from ANTIMEDIA) Iraq — According to a government audit from 2016, through shoddy record-keeping, the United States Army has lost track of $1 billion worth of military material sent to Iraq. The equipment, intended ...
Re-posted with permission from AntiWar.com, by Jason Ditz. The weekend finalization of a US arms deal with Saudi Arabia which officials say will be worth at least $350 billion over the next decade sent the ...
Reposted with permission from AntiWar.com by Jason Ditz. Reports from US officials familiar with the situation say that the Trump Administration is working to push through billions of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia ...
Reprinted with permission from The Free Thought Project. By Jay SyrmopoulosApril 18, 2017 image: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/dyncorp-696×366.jpg Washington, D.C. – A retired Army general, who after leaving the military, worked as VP for embattled DynaCorp International for three ...
It’s a scandal that involves a Malaysian Defense Contractor, Leonard Francis, bribing “scores” of Navy officials with lavish parties, prostitutes, and gifts worth millions of dollars in return for classified Navy information that he used ...