Australia Is Getting The Baddest Diesel Electric Submarines On The Planet

Australia Is Getting The Baddest Diesel Electric Submarines On The Planet

It was one of the biggest international defense contracts in recent memory. Australia’s Collins class submarine replacement program, also known as SEA1000, looked to procure 12 highly advanced diesel-electric multi-role submarines, each equipped with the latest in air independent propulsion (AIP)and quiet running technologies. These new foreign-designed submarines, which would be outfitted with American combat systems, would be fielded in […]

U.S. Role in Afghanistan Turns to Combat Again, With a Tragic Error

U.S. Role in Afghanistan Turns to Combat Again, With a Tragic Error

The Taliban attacked the Afghan police compound at first light, coming from all sides at the American Green Berets holed up inside. The insurgents fired assault rifles, heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. They came in what a soldier called “human waves.” Not even strafing runs by American F-16 fighters stopped the assault. The elite American soldiers […]

Navy SEAL Instructor Removed From Training After Sailor’s Death

Navy SEAL Instructor Removed From Training After Sailor’s Death

A Navy SEAL instructor has been temporarily removed from training duties after a sailor died during a swimming exercise last week in California, a command spokesman said Saturday. The announcement comes a day after a report by NBC News and the Virginian-Pilot newspaper raised questions about the circumstances leading to the sailor’s death, contradicting the official narrative […]

Egypt’s Copts Likely to Find Persecution Ahead from Increasingly Repressive Military Regime

Egypt’s Copts Likely to Find Persecution Ahead from Increasingly Repressive Military Regime

The Middle East has turned hostile to Christians and other religious minorities. The Iraqi Christian community has been devastated. Syria’s civil war loosed the murderous Islamic State on Christians and others. Libya’s disintegration opened the nation to IS fighters bent on killing anyone of the wrong faith. Also at risk are Egypt’s Copts, who make […]

Russia Used a Video Game to ‘Prove’ Chemical Weapons Claims

Russia Used a Video Game to ‘Prove’ Chemical Weapons Claims

The Russian government just made a bullshit claim about chemical weapons in Syria—and used some bullshit graphics from an old video game to help make its argument. “Several trucks with improvised munitions fitted with chemical warfare agents based on chlorine have arrived in northern territories of Aleppo, which had been controlled by Jabhat Al Nusra […]

U.S. Army Confirms Captain America Would (Probably) Be Owed 66 Years of Back Pay

U.S. Army Confirms Captain America Would (Probably) Be Owed 66 Years of Back Pay

Steve Rogers may be a proud son of Brooklyn, but even he can’t afford a place in his beloved hometown anymore, as he admits in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Or so he assumes. It turns out the since Captain America was never officially relieved of duty after he went under the ice in 1945, he’d be entitled to several […]

ISIS has released a new Android app aimed at children

ISIS has released a new Android app aimed at children

A news broadcaster affiliated with the terrorist group ISIS has released an Android app that teaches children the Arabic alphabet — and it’s full of references to weapons and jihad. Al Bayan Radio, which broadcasts ISIS propaganda on radio waves in the Middle East and through its Android apps, made the app available to supporters […]