Israel Prepares For Weeks of Tension After Gaza Incident

Israel Prepares For Weeks of Tension After Gaza Incident

The Israeli government is rejecting the charges that it acted with disproportionate violence to the events that took place in Gaza over the weekend. Israel is bracing for several weeks of military and diplomatic confrontation that began with Friday’s march in the Gaza Strip. The march left 17 Palestinians dead and hundreds more injured, and its protests […]

What Trump’s $700 Billion in the Defense Budget Pays For

What Trump’s $700 Billion in the Defense Budget Pays For

The new omnibus $1.3 trillion spending bill that President Trump signed last week, the Pentagon’s budget rose to the most in their history, $700 billion. The military budget approved on Friday is packed with funding for new weapons as well as upgrades for older systems. On Tuesday, CNN reported that Trump has privately floated the […]

Two Coalition Troops Killed in Syria By IED, Five Wounded

Two Coalition Troops Killed in Syria By IED, Five Wounded

Reports from U.S. military personnel in Syria say that two coalition personnel have been killed and five were wounded by a roadside bombing in Syria on Friday. IEDs attacks, while common in Iraq have been rare since the U.S-led coalition sent troops into Syria’s war-torn country. The military did not say where the incident occurred […]

March 29, 1911, The US Army Adopts the Finest Combat Pistol in History

March 29, 1911, The US Army Adopts the Finest Combat Pistol in History

If you are a fan of another combat pistol produced by the United States or anyone else for that matter, you may wish to click and go elsewhere. For 75 years the U.S. had the monopoly on fielding the best combat pistol for its troops. It was simple, powerful and quite easy to shoot. The […]

Yemen Rebels Launch a Barrage of Missiles at Saudi Arabia

Yemen Rebels Launch a Barrage of Missiles at Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh was targeted by a barrage of missiles fired from Yemeni Shiite rebels on the third anniversary of the war’s start. Missile fragments killed one Saudi resident and wounded two others. The rebels known as Houthis said they launched a missile attack targeting Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport and other […]

US Top General in Afghanistan Claims Russia is Arming the Taliban

US Top General in Afghanistan Claims Russia is Arming the Taliban

The top U.S. general in Afghanistan has said the Russians are supporting and supplying arms to the Taliban, adding more fuel to the already tense relationship between the two superpowers. General John Nicolson said in an interview with the BBC that he’s seen “destabilizing activity by the Russians.”  He said Russian weapons are being supplied […]

OSS Finally Recognized More Than 70 Years Later By Congress

OSS Finally Recognized More Than 70 Years Later By Congress

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was finally recognized by the U.S. Congress when the Congressional Gold Medal Act (S. 2234) was passed by the House of Representatives back in December and the Medal was officially presented on Wednesday. OSS was the World War II predecessor to CIA, the US Special Operations Command and the […]

US Air Force To Adopt Army’s MultiCam Uniform

US Air Force To Adopt Army’s MultiCam Uniform

The U.S. Air Force could be soon wearing the same duty uniforms as the U.S. Army, the “MultiCam” according to documents that were on social media last week. The documents, reportedly from the Air Force Uniform Office, suggest ditching the service’s “Airman Battle Uniform” in favor of the Army’s MultiCam “Operational Camouflage Pattern.” The change […]

Turks, Free Syrian Army Forces Capture Afrin City

Turks, Free Syrian Army Forces Capture Afrin City

Turkish military forces and their Free Syrian Army (FSA) proxies continued their offensive in northwest Syria on Sunday and captured the city of Afrin. Operation Olive Branch has been steadily moving forward and the Kurdish fighters who had taken the city from the Islamic State were themselves removed by the Turks who consider the Kurds […]

US Helicopter Crashes in Iraq With Seven Troops on Board

US Helicopter Crashes in Iraq With Seven Troops on Board

U.S. officials have confirmed that a U.S. military helicopter with seven troops on board has crashed in western Iraq. Reports state that there is no indication currently that the aircraft was shot down. The HH-60 Pave Hawk is an aircraft that the U.S. Air Force uses for combat search and rescue and was in transit […]

German Defense Minister Blasts Russian Nerve Gas Attack in Britain

German Defense Minister Blasts Russian Nerve Gas Attack in Britain

Ursula von der Leyen, Germany’s defense minister in the most strongly worded statement yet on the Sergei Skripal nerve agent poisoning, said that the Russians were most certainly behind the attack and tied this into the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Von der Leyen appeared Thursday on Morgen Magazin, a joint breakfast show by public […]

Turkish Military Encircles Kurdish-held Town of Afrin In Syria

Turkish Military Encircles Kurdish-held Town of Afrin In Syria

Turkey’s military and its rebel allies have encircled the northern Syrian town of Afrin, the Turkish armed forces said on Tuesday, marking a substantial advance in Turkey’s offensive against Kurdish fighters across its southern border. Turkey launched its operation, dubbed “Olive Branch”, in northern Syria nearly two months ago to sweep the Syrian Kurdish YPG from […]