Goals And Force Requirements For A Future U.S. Navy

Photo from Canna Zine Heritage Foundation Builds a Fleet -- Information Dissemination The Heritage Foundation has released a report titled ...

A Riveting Eyewitness Report On The War In Sri Lanka

Photo from Tamil Sangam Tamil Refugees Shelled As Army Closes In -- Times Online Sri Lanka’s civil war is nearing its endgame, says the repo...

Surface Transportation Remains Favorite Terrorist Target

From Homeland Security: Terrorists seek max carnage with low-tech weapons, analyst tells Senate. The Mumbai attacks demonstrate that terrori...

Revealed: Recent U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks Involved Key Officials (UPDATED)

From Foreign Policy (The Cable) : As Barack Obama settles into the Oval Office and begins his stated mission of reorienting U.S. foreign pol...

Chemical Warfare – Ancient Persian-Style

Persian siege tactics, depicted here at the Chehel Sotun Pavillion in Iran, overpowered the Romans at Dura-Europos. Corbis From The Independ...

The U.S. Is Now The #1 Target According To Jihadist Communications Traffic Since The Israeli-Hamas War

Photo from Granitegrok From Rantburg: The US and Europe are among the most threatened by jihadists following Israel's recent operations...

Turkey Is No Longer An Honest Broker In The Missle East

Photo : Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) shakes hands with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Damascus, Syria. Photo: AP ...

Nato Figures Show Surge In Afghanistan Violence

Photo: U.S. Army soldiers rest during a mission to check security efforts at Salang tunnel in the Hindu Kush mountain range in the Parwan p...

A Threat To Putin’s Big Plans

Opposition groups led by Communists protested the economic policies of the Russian government in the eastern city of Vladivostok on Saturday...

After Campaign Push, Obama Cultivates Military

In Iraq in July, Senators Barack Obama and Chuck Hagel, right, talked to Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander there. Lorie Jewell/U.S. Army...

With Subtly Changed Goals And Tactics, Barack Obama Woos A Reluctant Europe

Barack Obama gave a speech in Berlin in front of 200,000 cheering Europeans as part of a trip intended to prove he's a man of the world ...

Defense Official: Obama Calling For Defense Budget Cuts

From FOX News: Some overall budget figures are expected to be announced Monday. The Obama administration has asked the military's Joint ...

Inside Guantanamo Bay, A Study In Contrasts

Camp Delta military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay US naval base. Photograph: Brennan Linsley/PA/ The Guardian From FOX News: Assaults, ca...

General Says Shoot Dealers in Afghanistan

A U.S. soldier surveys a poppy field as smoke rises in the distance near Spin Boldak in southern Afghanistan. Poppy seedpods produce opium, ...

The End Game Begins In Sri Lanka

A Sri Lankan soldier stands guard in Mullaittivu, the former military headquarters of the Tamil Tiger rebels, on January 27. Red Cross offic...

Is North Korea Preparing For War?

North and South Korea stand on the 'brink of war' as Kim Jong-il's tears up the non-aggression pact Photo: REUTERS North And S...

Iraq War News And Election Update -- January 31, 2009

A police officer stands guard outside a polling centre as election officials carry in voting booths in Mosul, Iraq. Photograph: AP ( The Gua...

Analysis: UAVs Protect U.S. Troops In Iraq

Predator B can conduct multiple missions simultaneously due to its large internal and external payload capacity. Photo from Airforce Technol...

Chairman Senate Armed Services Committee -- No More New Programs For The Pentagon

Reset Wins Over Modernization: Sen. Levin -- Military.com In a policy declaration that will reverberate through the Pentagon and defense ind...

Obama’s Afghanistan Strategy Likely To Ditch Karzai, Focus On Local Governance

SNOW TUNNEL - U.S. Army soldiers drive toward Afghanistan's Salang tunnel in the Hindu Kush Mountain range to check on security, Jan. 30...

Afghanistan War News Updates -- January 31. 2009

Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Shah Marai/AFP/Getty ( Time Magazine ) 'Incompetent' Hamid Karzai's Political Future In Doubt -- ...

What Is Happening In Gaza Today

US Middle East envoy George Mitchell arrived in the region this week to shore up the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas and try to get the ...

Trends In Unmanned Warfare

ST. LOUIS, April 18, 2004 -- A Boeing Joint Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS) X-45 aircraft releases an inert Global Positioning System-gu...

Promoting The Worse In The CIA -- Change We Can Believe In

Controversial CIA Official Tapped for Counterterrorism Center, Sources Say -- CQ Politics/Spy Talk Disenchanted CIA employees have long comp...

An appealing development

Attorney Alan Gura has filed an opening brief in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. [ More ] Today's Gun Rights Examiner column. ...

U.S. Deserter 'Having Time of My Life' as He Seeks Asylum in Germany

Photo : U.S. Army deserter André Shepherd, left, is seeking asylum in Germany with the help of peace activist Ulli Thiel, right. His hearing...

National Security Court? We Already Have One -- A Commentary

From The Investigative Project On Terrorism: Last week, the Wall Street Journal offered an op-ed article detailing the difficulties facing t...

Planning For The "Unthinkable"

Hiroshima Memorial From The Armchair Generalist: I'll bet that you were just wondering if your state and city emergency planners were pr...

Was Candidate Obama Working With Arab Intermediaries To Establish An Unofficial Dialogue With Al Qaeda?

Strong views: National security adviser nominee Jim Jones shakes hands with President-elect Obama. Secretary of State nominee Hillary Clinto...

U.S. May Forge New Ties With Syria

Image from As In The Days Of Noah From CBS News: A U.S. Congressional delegation was to arrive in Damascus Friday night in what could be the...

U.S. And Iranian Discussions Have Been Ongoing Since Last Year

Photo: Former Defense Secretary William J. Perry Ex-Defense Chief Met With Tehran Aide -- Washington Times Perry talks reach highest level ...

This Day In History -- Raid At Cabanatuan January 30, 1945

Photo: Former Cabanatuan POWs in celebration, 30 January 1945 U.S. National Archives From Wikipedia: The Raid at Cabanatuan in the Philippi...

Sri Lanka War News Updates -- January 30 - 31, 2009

The area controlled by the Tamil Tigers has been squeezed by a government offensive launched in January 2008. Image from AFP Sri Lanka Rejec...

Gangs Responsible For 80% Of US Crime

FBI: Burgeoning Gangs Behind Up To 80% Of U.S. Crime -- USA Today Criminal gangs in the USA have swelled to an estimated 1 million members r...

Obama Redefines War On Terror

Change of command: President Obama met members of the US Armed Forces on a visit to the Pentagon Wednesday. Obama is shifting the focus of t...

News Briefs For January 30, 2009

PROOF - Iraqi National Police officers show their purple index fingers as proof of having voted outside the Abu Ghraib Boys High School, Jan...

Doctors Spooked by Israel's Mystery Weapon

Image from Global Security From The Danger Room: Critics continue to press the case that Israel committed "war crimes" in its war ...