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In September, we reported on Eagle Prime, America’s massive 12-ton battle robot designed and built specifically to do battle with Japan’s own battle-mech, Kuratas. America’s robot, which was touted as bigger and more powerful than its Japanese opponent, even got its own hype reel, with dramatic footage of it targeting old cars with its weapon […]
Last month, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made headlines and history as it transmitted back images of Saturn unlike anything any earthling had seen before. As the craft plummeted down into Saturn’s gaseous interior, past its telltale ring system and potentially life-inhabited moons, it kept snapping photos, offering us a never-before-seen glimpse into existence around the gas […]
Spanish special operations forces stand guard over USNS Saturn crew members who played the role of a hostile ship crew during a mock boarding exercise conducted as part of Exercise Sea Saber 2004. The exercise focused on the interdiction of a maritime shipment of weapons of mass destruction and related material on the high seas. […]
London—The United Kingdom Special Forces (UKSF) is set to lose some of its organic aviation capability. The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that the 657 Squadron of the Army Air Corps (AAC) will be disbanded in 2018. Under this development, the SAS, SBS, and their support elements will be down a flight of […]
Barcelona—Catalonia’s moment of truth nears. Tomorrow ends the second deadline that the Spanish government has given to Catalan President Carles Puigdemont to clarify last Tuesday’s independence declaration. In the October 1st referendum, 90% of participants voted for independence. But the turnout was just 43%. Then, on October 10th, Puigdemont declared independence in front of a packed […]
Since February, Chechnya has been accused of kidnapping and imprisoning over 100 gay or bisexual men, purely based on their sexual orientation. There have been reports of an unknown number of these captives who have already been killed in captivity. They have reportedly faced torture and humiliation. Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of the Chechnyan Republic, has […]
Police are on the hunt for a single gunman that shot five people in Maryland this morning, killing three. Law enforcement believes Radee Labeeb Prince, 37, opened fire at employees of Advanced Granite Solutions at the Emmorton Business Park in Edgewood, Maryland just before 9 am local time. Officers arrived just four minutes later, but […]
At the moment, the American media is enjoying an unprecedented level of unpopularity with terms such as fake news, liberal agenda, and biased media thrown around almost reflexively. Of course, none of this is new and the media has long been in need of some internal soul-searching. It’s sad that this did not even begin […]
A member of the U.S. Army 20th Special Forces Group sticks his hand out of UH-60 Black Hawk to feel the wind during Emerald Warrior 2014, Gulfport, Miss., May 5, 2014. Emerald Warrior is an annual, joint exercise to train special operations, conventional and partner nation forces in combat scenarios designed to hone special operations […]
Madagascar: public activity has slowed to a stop. Public events and meetings have been banned, school is out and the only busy areas are the lines stretching out behind health facilities and clinics as people wait for antibiotics. The Red Cross, reporting a “doubling of cases over the last week”, has been developing and is […]
Last Saturday, a suspicious package was found in Middletown, Virginia. It was during a Civil War reenactment, where actors played both soldiers in the Confederate and the Union armies battling it out at Cedar Creek. The real battle took place at the same location on October 19th, 1864, where the Confederates unleashed a surprise attack […]
Rank has its privileges. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl entered a courtroom in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on 16 October 2017 to plead guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy for leaving his post in Afghanistan eight years ago on 30 June 2009 when he was a 23-year-old Private First Class. Today, General John Nicholson commands […]
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