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Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
You have to admire the Obama administration's message discipline, no matter how silly the talking point. He's got General Casey making diversity the Army's prime directive after the Ft. Hood shootings, his National Security Advisor emphasizing that troop levels in...
SayUncle (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
So says Rob Curtis: Surefire sued the pants off them in district court back in April 2008. The suit was against Pentagon Scientific Corp's infringement on Surefire's lockout tailcap switch patent. Six months later, the court found in their favor. The company bought back some of its inventory from its dealers but never put out a [...]
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The situation in Afghanistan is bad enough without "people at the Pentagon" playing games with Obama. A report today that Obama had decided to send 40,000 troops to Afghanistan has been denied strongly by the White House : Two other senior administration officials flatly told CNN that the CBS report and other similar speculation is false. The Associated Press reported Monday that Obama is...
MyDD (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am in NYC this evening. I wound up, purely through Priceline happenstance, staying in room 1208 at the Hilton Millenium, which is directly above the former WTC 9/11 location; at this time of night, it is full of construction trucks-- still excavating with the haunting blowhorn going off intermittently.... and it looks like, 9 years later, that they are still pulling out original tower concrete and...
Populist Party (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Nuclear Regulator Commission is considering an application by the US Army for a permit to have depleted uranium at its Pohakuloa Training Area, a vast stretch of flat land in what’s called the “saddle” between the sacred mountains of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on Hawaii’s Big Island, and at the Schofield Barracks on [...]
Op For (Free subscription) | yesterday
Henry Joyce Foresman Captain, Army of the United States Retired November 9, 1919—December 28, 2000...
Op For (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Time -- As an army psychiatrist treating soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, Major Nidal Malik Hasan had a front row seat on the brutal toll of war. It is too early to know exactly what may have triggered his...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
By GottaLaff After reading The Dark Side by Jane Mayer, this isn't all that new. But that's a book, and these are declassified Department of Justice-released documents : Sadly, they reveal that the FBI knew perfectly well — and repeatedly warned Defense Department officials, as well as Justice Department lawyers — that the abusive interrogation techniques being used on detainees at Guantanamo...
Op For (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I attended the celebration of the 234th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps last night at the Embassy in Kabul. I had heard several times before that in the more remote capitals of the world, the annual Birthday Ball...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Pentagon employees honor victims of Ft. Hood shooting with a moment of silence.
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Hot date! Southern gentleman and rhetorician REP. JOE WILSON (R-SC) has been given the honor of escorting German Chancellor-Frau ANGELA MERKEL to the 20th annual Berlin Wall Ball. But will Joe be ready for the big night? Where will he find a corsage that compliments Angela’s captivating blue eyes? And can he trust the ILLEGAL [...]
JINSA Online - (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
JINSA honored the five service chiefs and the commander of the Special Operations Command with its Henry M. Jackson Distinguished Service Award at a gala dinner held Nov. 2 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington DC. The same evening, six young servicemen were presented with JINSA's Grateful Nation Award for outstanding conduct in the war against terrorists. Click here to watch the Pentagon Channel...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In recent weeks, President Obama has been contemplating the future of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan. He has also been touting the effects of his policies at home, reporting that this year's Recovery Act not only saved jobs, but also was "the largest investment in infrastructure since [President Dwight] Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s." At the same time,...
Op For (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
One Officer, Two Soldiers Suspected in Hood Rampage...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A U.S. Marine mans his weapon system during a patrol through the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Oct. 26, 2009. The Marines are deployed with Regimental Combat Team 3. U.S Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Artur Shvartsberg From New York Times: WASHINGTON — The nation’s top military officer said Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months for...
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konaxis.net | 02/02/2009
The "Mengshi (Warriors)", an off-road military vehicle produced by Chinese automaker Dongfeng Motor surpasses U.S. Humvee in 12 out of 15 major battlefield performance indices, according to chief designer Huang Song. The "Mengshi (Warriors)" exhibited superiority in loading capacity and oil consumption, and are well-matched with Humvee in three other indices, Huang was quoted as saying. During the...
freemanhines4168 | 01/31/2009
the pvs-7 ultra - an- pvs-7b- d- is the standard issue goggle type supplied to the u.s. military and its allies. equipped with a factory new, high-performance, itt generation 3, 64-72 lp- mm image tube, the pvs-7 ultra?s battle-proven technology in...
freemanhines4168 | 01/31/2009
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