Is The War Against Al Qaeda Reaching A 'Tipping Point'?

Photo: General Counsel for the Department of Defense Jeh C. Johnson US Heading For Point When 'Military Pursuit Of al-Qaida Should End...

What Did President Obama Say About Benghazi

What The President Said About Benghazi -- Tom Bevan, Real Clear Politics U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice is under fire for going on several Sunda...

CIA Ordered To Close Down It's Center On Climate Change And National Security

Obama Orders CIA To Close Down Multi-Billion Dollar Unit -- Examiner More than three years later, and after spending billions of taxpayer do...

Is The CIA Headed In The Wrong Direction?

CIA Headed In The Wrong General Direction -- Roy A. Harrell Jr. Agency should not be paramilitary force. More than 50 years ago, my resignat...

A Look At Military Uniforms Of The Future

Combating Chemical Agents A U.S. Army private prepares for a chemical training drill wearing the service's current chemical protection s...

The U.S. Military Wants EMP Grenades

An E.M.P. grenade goes off in Deus Ex. Dvice Army Wants To Stop Bombs Using Halo-Style Electric Pulses -- Danger Room Electromagnetic pulse ...

Pentagon Worried Over Real 'Terminators'

  WNU Editor: From CNN .... Behind every Hellfire missile, there's an actual human being remotely pulling the trigger. But the Pentag...

Defending Drone Strikes

  Top Pentagon Lawyer Defends Drone Killings -- Foreign Policy  In a rare public interview, Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon’s top lawyer, argued t...

U.S. Navy Preparing To Wage Cyber Warfare Attacks

The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan travels through the Pacific Ocean with other ships assigned to the Rim of the Pacific 2010 exercise, ...

U.S. Navy's Biofuel Plans Get The Support Of The U.S. Senate

Senate Votes To Save The Navy’s ‘Great Green Fleet’ -- Danger Room The Senate on Wednesday threw a life raft to the Navy’s beleaguered plan ...

How Syria Turned Off The Internet

How Syria Turned Off The Internet -- Cloud Flare Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1029 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of...

ASEAN Chief Worries That China Is Deliberately Raising South China Sea Tensions

ASEAN Chief Worries Beijing Raising Stakes in South China Sea -- Voice of America South-East Asia's leading diplomat is joining those wo...

Wow!

From your lips, Katie, to God's ear. [ Read ] This could be the biggest development to date in terms of giving incentive to roll. If so,...

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- November 30, 2012

Why Is Egypt's Draft Constitution So Controversial? -- Kristen Chick, Christian Science Monitor Protesters took to the streets in Cairo...

More Evidence Of War Crimes In Syria (Graphic Video)

Syrian Rebel Films Himself Shooting 10 Prisoners -- Reuters Nov 30 (Reuters) - New footage posted on the Internet appears to have been filme...

The Mighty Quinn

Not so mighty after all... [ Read ] [Via bondmen ]

We're the Only Ones Rear-Ended Enough

A Mercer Island police officer accidentally shot himself in the buttocks while on duty Thursday. [ More ]  I'm trying to imagine how you...

Bring It On, You Moron

Can you imagine being stupid or racist enough to vote for this addled... thing ? [ Read ] Has Guam tipped over yet?

In a Crossbow-Free Zone?

Earlier, Casper College spokesman Rich Fujita said the incident involved a crossbow or another similar weapon, Fujita said. [ More ]  And no...

Civil War In Syria -- News Updates November 30, 2012

Is Syria's Assad Running Short Of Helicopters And Cash? -- Christian Science Monitor ProPublica reports that Syria asked Iraq to allow h...

Tens Of Thousands Protest Against Egypt's New Constitution

Cairo's Tahrir Square Fills With Anti-Morsi Protesters -- BBC Tens of thousands of protesters opposed to Egypt's president and the s...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Back In Cuba For Cancer Treatments

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Battling Bone Metastasis, Report Says -- FOX News Venezuela President Hugo Chávez is now battling bone meta...

City attorney’s comments spotlight how California gun laws endanger citizens

Here you have a municipal legal official admitting murders are on the rise, criminals are running rampant, a dwindling police force is power...

Innocent Until Proven Guilty

I haven't read this book, so I don't know the exact circumstances that led to these peoples' ordeal. The advice given in this co...

Can Afghanistan Tackle Corruption?

My Comment: The culture of corruption is so interwoven in Afghanistan that I have zero expectation that it can be tackled in my lifetime. A...

Afghanistan War News Updates -- November 30, 2012

Members of Provincial Reconstruction Team Ghazni and Afghan national police walk up a hill after their vehicles became stuck in the mud in t...

World News Briefs -- November 30, 2012

Egyptians Protest After Panel Backs Constitution -- Voice of America CAIRO — Egyptians protested in Cairo's Tahrir Square Friday for an ...

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- November 30, 2012

Okinawa Move, Key To Pacific Pivot, Will Cost More Than $10.6B: GAO -- Aol Defense WASHINGTON: Sloppy number-crunching at the Department of ...

DEFENSIVE USE OF FIREARMS: Revised and Updated

From Stephen P. Wenger: If you have been waiting to purchase autographed copies of my book – for yourself or as gifts – a new shipment arriv...

Not Our Job

Of course, neither is protecting you, which we do our best to make impossible for you to do yourself... [ Read ] [Via Harvey ]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

Lord Justice Leveson has condemned decades of "outrageous" behaviour by newspapers as he urged the Government to set up a new medi...

We're the Only Ones First-Responding Enough

A 43-year-old state trooper has been charged with larceny, accused of stealing jewelry and cash from the victim of a fatal motorcycle crash...

The Cattle are Lowing

Meat-eaters "easily cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes," an Indian school textbook for 11 and 12-year-olds writes. ...

Day of Rage

If you're going to carry, don't go starting arguments over bumper stickers. Legalities aside, this should never have got started in ...

ATSNTV Shooting Destination Night

It's on Saturday instead of Friday this week... [ Details ]

'Author Korwin disavows e-mail scare under his byline'

Veteran Arizona gun rights advocate Alan Korwin, author of several gun law books and a prolific writer, is scrambling to distance himself fr...

Direct Links

A gun smuggling operation run by former Columbus town officials had a direct link to targets of the bungled “Fast and Furious” operation ru...

The Thinking Machine

This is a bit before my time, but I did work with similar technology--I recall filling out engineering parts lists on 80-column forms that w...

Damn the Principles, Full Speed Ahead

While I have concerns about the "Sportsmen's Act" and he supports it, John Richardson's endorsement of holding fast to pri...

Sounds of Silence

Proponents say there's no reason to ban the devices that screw onto the muzzle of a firearm to catch the blast and muffle the sound of ...

This Day in History: November 30

Although appearances are not very flattering at present, I hope they will in time become more so. Patience, prudence, and perseverance som...

Editor's Note

Will be stuck in meetings today. Regular blogging will return at 13:00 EST

Ten Predictions For 2013

The World In 2013 -- Foreign Policy Ten predictions for a year of brewing conflict. Three major forces will loom behind the headlines in 201...

Another North Korean Military Chief Is Fired

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has replaced his defence chief Kim Jong-Gak (AFP/File, North Korean TV) South Korea Suspects North Korea Dum...

Pentagon To Activate Global Missile Defense For NKorean Missile Test

Japan's missile defense assets deployed to Intercept the North Korean missile on its ascent trajectory (April 2012). Illustration: Daily...

U.S. Is Denied Entry Into Asia's Newest Economic Bloc

Asian, European and US exports Post-US W orld B orn I n Phnom Penh -- Spengler, Asia Times It is symptomatic of the national condition of th...

The Growing Irrelevance Of The U.S. State Department

A Fine Mess At Foggy Bottom -- Seth Mandel, Commentary Lost in all the speculation about the next secretary of state is the degree to which ...

X-47B Inaugural Land-Based Catapult Launch

WNU Editor: Another cool video of the X-47B being hoisted is below.

A Look At Al Qaeda In Yemen (Book Review)

'The Last Refuge': Yemen, Al-Qaida And The U.S. -- NPR In December 2009, a would-be terrorist boarded a plane for Detroit with a bom...

How Did A Guantanamo Detainee Die From A Drug Overdose?

Photo: Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif. Wikipedia Investigators Said To Question How Detainee Died Of Overdose -- New York Times WASHINGTON — A Ye...

Benghazi Bungling

The White House’s Benghazi Bungling Is Proving A Disaster -- Nile Gardiner, The Telegraph President Obama hasn’t even begun his second term ...