Military News

U.S. Soldiers Punished for Not Attending Christian Concert

Posted by Stephen on August 19, 2010 at 11:35 pm

For the past several years, two U.S. Army posts in Virginia, Fort Eustis and Fort Lee, have been putting on a series of what are called Commanding General’s Spiritual Fitness Concerts. As I’ve written in a number of other posts, “spiritual fitness” is just the military’s new term for promoting religion, particularly evangelical Christianity. And [...]

Pakistan Is Funding, Training Taliban in Afghanistan

Posted by Stephen on June 13, 2010 at 11:15 am

Pakistani military intelligence not only funds and trains Taliban fighters in Afghanistan but is officially represented on the movement’s leadership council, giving it significant influence over operations, a report said.
The report, published by the London School of Economics, a leading British institution, on Sunday, said research strongly suggested support for the Taliban was the “official [...]

Today Is the Day Obama Promised We Would Be out of Iraq

Posted by Stephen on May 21, 2010 at 2:17 pm

Originally found at Young Americans for Liberty
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VA Claims Office Takes SNAFU to a New Level

Posted by Stephen on April 20, 2010 at 12:14 pm

Last month, a decorated Gulf War hero received a letter from the Veterans Affairs Administration that said: We are working on your claim for menstrual disorder.
There was just one problem: The claim was submitted for fibromyalgia.
Make that two problems: The claim was submitted by Glenn McBride, a 40-year-old man from Roanoke, Va., who most definitely [...]

A short history of Iran’s ‘53 coup led by the CIA

Posted by Stephen on April 19, 2010 at 12:03 pm

Coup 53 of Iran is the CIA’s (Central Intelligence Agency) first successful overthrow of a foreign government.
But a copy of the agency’s secret history of the coup has surfaced, revealing the inner workings of a plot that set the stage for the Islamic revolution in 1979, and for a generation of anti-American hatred in one [...]

Obama Presses for $33 Billion War Supplement

Posted by Stephen on March 29, 2010 at 2:14 pm

In a move that was widely expected, Obama Administration officials headed to the Senate to press for approval of a $33 billion war supplemental bill, with most of the money going to pay for the Afghan War.
The $33 billion supplement would be in addition to the record $708 billion military budget reported in January. The [...]

New chili grenade packs a punch

Posted by Stephen on March 21, 2010 at 7:06 pm

It’s the hottest new bit of hardware in the arms race – a non-lethal hand grenade loaded with the world’s most powerful chillies.

Military experts in India have developed a new crowd control grenade packed with ground seeds from the Bhut Jolokia, officially recognized as the hottest chili on the planet by Guinness World Records.
When deployed [...]

Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included

Posted by Stephen on February 10, 2010 at 3:22 pm

The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.
As part of its budget for the next year, [...]

Obama Administration Steers Lucrative No-Bid Contract for Afghan Work to Dem Donor

Posted by Stephen on January 25, 2010 at 11:06 am

The Obama administration this month awarded a $25 million federal contract for work in Afghanistan to a company owned by a prominent Democratic campaign contributor without entertaining competitive bids, Fox News has learned.
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Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist

Posted by Stephen on November 25, 2009 at 1:02 pm

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.
The three, all members of the Navy’s elite [...]