Ten Sailors Missing as Navy Ship Collides with a Tanker in the Pacific

Ten Sailors Missing as Navy Ship Collides with a Tanker in the Pacific

The U.S. Navy had another ship collision in the Pacific on Sunday night and 10 of the sailors were missing. Five other sailors were injured when the guided-missile cruiser USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore. The McCain’s hull was breached by the tanker causing severe damage and […]

Army Searching for Helicopter Crew After Crash in Hawaii

Army Searching for Helicopter Crew After Crash in Hawaii

The Army is searching for a crew of a UH-60 helicopter after it went down during a training exercise about 2 miles off the Hawaiian island of Oahu, according to military sources. The Black Hawk was part of a pair of helicopters taking part in normal night training on Tuesday night when it went down […]

Military Chiefs Break with Trump, Denounce Charlottesville Racism

Military Chiefs Break with Trump, Denounce Charlottesville Racism

In a startling move, the leaders of the military broke with President Donald Trump and have denounced the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA over the weekend. Five of the military’s service chiefs representing the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and National Guard have taken to social media to condemn the white nationalists, the […]

Maduro Calls For Military Exercises After Trump’s Threat of Intervention

Maduro Calls For Military Exercises After Trump’s Threat of Intervention

Despite insisting that he wants to meet with President Donald Trump and hold talks with him, Venezuela’s President, Nicolas Maduro called for the military to hold exercises to counter the threat of armed intervention by the United States. Trump’s proclamation that the country is going to “collapse into dictatorship”, has Maduro trying to rally support […]

Chinese, US Generals Reach Deal to Reduce ‘Risk of Miscalculation’

Chinese, US Generals Reach Deal to Reduce ‘Risk of Miscalculation’

Some of the top United States and Chinese military commanders have come to an agreement to improve communications between the two superpowers. Put in place to stop a potential powder keg from exploding into a shooting war, the pact will hopefully calm the tense standoffs on going in the South China Sea. Representing the Trump […]

Surveillance Detection, A Key To A Successful Protection Mission

Surveillance Detection, A Key To A Successful Protection Mission

(Today’s guest column from MSG (ret) Chuck Simpson, Green Beret and Certified Protection Specialist) What is Surveillance Detection? The techniques employed by the Protection Team to deter, prevent or stop surveillance on the Principal or Detail Members. Who conducts surveillance?? Press/Paparazzi, Stalkers, Fans, Criminals, Terrorist and Corporate Intelligence Agencies, this is the short list. What […]

Hezbollah Dismisses US Sanctions, “US Will Not Damage the Resistance

Hezbollah Dismisses US Sanctions, “US Will Not Damage the Resistance

Increased United States sanctions of the Iran proxy of Hezbollah does not worry the group at all. The leader of the Lebanon Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that the Trump administration’s sanctions cannot harm it. Nasrallah spoke on television to mark the anniversary of the end of the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel said, […]

Mattis Suggests Transgenders May Continue to Serve

Mattis Suggests Transgenders May Continue to Serve

With the Trump White House has still not provided the Defense Department the necessary policy guidance on transgender persons serving in the armed forces, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis told the press, that DOD was continuing to study the issue. That statement hints that transgender military members may be allowed to continue to serve despite […]

Op-Ed: When Espionage Pays, Chelsea Manning Steps Out for Vogue

Op-Ed: When Espionage Pays, Chelsea Manning Steps Out for Vogue

Vogue Magazine recently did a feature including a photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz on Chelsea Manning, who they’re touting as a hero. “Chelsea Manning Changed the Course of History. Now She’s Focusing on Herself” and it is eye-opening and would be comical if it weren’t so serious. Hero? Hardly, she’s fortunate she’s not still in […]

Colombia Says No to US Military Intervention in Venezuela

Colombia Says No to US Military Intervention in Venezuela

On Sunday Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos told United States VP Mike Pence that he and other Latin American countries will not abide by President Donald Trump’s threat to use military action in Venezuela. Pence, speaking at a joint news conference with Santos in Cartagena, didn’t rule out using military force, but kept his comments […]

Venezuela’s Maduro Calls for a Meeting with President Trump

Venezuela’s Maduro Calls for a Meeting with President Trump

In a strange turn of events, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday that he wants a meeting with President Donald Trump. The Socialist leader, with his country starving due to poor government policies and a bottoming out oil market is facing more and more pressure as he cracks down on opposition leaders, has reached out […]

The US Expels Two Cuban Diplomats After Embassy ‘Incidents’ in Havana

The US Expels Two Cuban Diplomats After Embassy ‘Incidents’ in Havana

In a bizarre set of events, the U.S. State Department has expelled two Cuban diplomats after several Americans earlier this year at the U.S. Embassy in Havana experienced strange medical symptoms that resulted in hearing loss and were either recalled to the U.S. or allowed to come home. According to State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, […]