Joseph Sarkisian

Unless you’re an Iran analyst or have read, The Twilight War, by David Crist, you likely don’t know that the United States and Iran have been playing a game of cat and mouse in the Persian Gulf for decades. The “tanker war” of the 1980s pitted American naval might against Iran’s far less capable fleet […]

The Obama Administration is notorious for the President’s goal of reducing nuclear weaponry across the globe with the introduction of the New START treaty in 2010. However, while the U.S. tries to play God over the world’s nuclear stockpile, it is simultaneously upgrading its own stocks of B61 weapons into “smart” atom bombs. What does […]

Bowe Bergdahl was never meant to join the Army, and in so doing, he ultimately created a trail of collateral damage that just may land him in prison for the foreseeable future. But how many more like him are there given the Army’s lacking psychological profile standards? The military entrance process, among other things, is […]

ISIL has recently debuted a few new weapons systems it plans on deploying in its battle against the infidels. One weapon, based on an air-to-air AA-2 missile, likely won’t be much bother to modern aircraft with advanced deterrent systems, but you have to give them credit for trying. The video claiming to show a mish […]

Donald Trump’s ears must have been burning. The political establishment that the billionaire outsider’s army so despises united in a rare moment of bipartisan unity on Tuesday night — against him. President Barack Obama turned his valedictory State of the Union address into a repudiation of the partisanship, intolerance, and alienating rhetoric for which he […]

Turkey’s state-run news agency says police in the Mediterranean city of Antalya have detained three Russian nationals in a raid on suspected Islamic State militants. The Anadolu Agency said anti-terrorism police conducted the raids on Wednesday, a day after an ISIS suicide bomber detonated a bomb in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet district, killing 10 foreigners, most of them […]

Iran has freed the 10 U.S. sailors who strayed into its territorial waters Tuesday, Iranian and U.S. officials say. The two U.S. vessels had been en route to Kuwait from Bahrain on a routine exercise, when, a senior defense official said, contact was lost with them Tuesday. Iran said they were detained and held at a base on […]

The Philippines booted the U.S. military out of the country 25 years ago, deriding the American troops as unwelcome guests and living symbols of colonialism. Now, fearful of a rising China, Manila is asking Washington to send them back. The push got a major boost Tuesday when the Philippine Supreme Court approved a landmark defense cooperation deal […]

ISIS has a new Android app for exchanging secure messages, joining another app that distributes propaganda and recruiting material, according to a counterterrorism network called the Ghost Security Group. Last month, Ghost Security and others, observed ISIS members using private messages on the Telegram app and direct messages on Twitter to send followers to a site (since vanished) to download the Amaq […]

  President Obama at the State of the Union Address 2016 – Courtesy: Harlem Local Their tumultuous relationship nearing an end, President Obama and Congress scheduled one last date for Tuesday night, when Obama delivered his final State of the Union address. But make no mistake, the breakup was already complete. Obama’s need to work […]