Donald Trump’s forthcoming foreign policy challenges

You may love him. You may hate him. Either way, Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. The tasks ahead of him are enormous. Most of the early focus has been on what he will do in regard to domestic policy. Abroad, however, he will find the challenges no less daunting. President […]

The J-20: China’s counterfeit-fighter that could still mean trouble

What we know for sure about the new Chinese J-20 stealth fighter jet is subject to some debate.  We know that, according to claims within the Chinese government, that it was designed to compete directly with the latest in American fighter jet technology: the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.  Outwardly, its appearance resembles […]

Starfish Prime: The nuclear test that introduced the world to EMPs

On July 9th, 1962 the United States launched a Thor rocket armed with a W49 thermonuclear warhead to an altitude of nearly two hundred and fifty miles and detonated it.  It took thirteen minutes for the missile to reach its predesignated altitude before the 1.45 megaton explosion illuminated the night sky for hundreds of miles […]

Was Roswell a Soviet hoax? Fact may be stranger than fiction

In July of 1947, something fell from the sky and crash landed in Mack Brazel’s ranch, just northwest of Roswell, New Mexico.  According to the official story, it was an experimental weather balloon.  If you listen to the long list of conspiracy theories surrounding the event, it was a spaceship from another world, crewed by […]

Moscow had contacts with Trump team during campaign, Russian diplomat says

MOSCOW — Russian government officials had contacts with members of Donald Trump’s campaign team, a senior Russian diplomat said Thursday, in a disclosure that could reopen scrutiny over the Kremlin’s role in the president-elect’s bitter race against Hillary Clinton. Facing questions about his ties to Moscow because of statements interpreted as lauding Russian President Vladi­mir Putin, […]

Islamic State celebrates Donald Trump election victory

Extremists celebrated President–elect Donald Trump’s stunning victory at the polls Wednesday, hoping his triumph will “lead to civil war,“ according to a jihadist monitoring group. “Rejoice with support from Allah, and find glad tidings in the imminent demise of America at the hands of Trump,” said the al-Minbar Jihadi Media network, which is affiliated with the […]

What drove a Jordanian guard to shoot US military personnel?

Al-Jafr Air Base is a relatively desolate and deserted base. It’s smack in the middle of desert. There is not much around it, and even less in its outer corridor. But one place near it that is of consequence is Maan, Jordan. Maan, more than any other spot in Jordan, is an ISIL hotspot. Salafi […]

Military Drills Have Been Announced in Cuba After Donald Trump’s Election Victory

Cuba will embark on five days of nationwide military exercises to prepare its “troops and population to counter a range of enemy action,” the country’s Ministry of Defense announced in government-run newspaper Granma on Wednesday. Although Cuba did not explicitly reference the U.S. presidential-election result, the military maneuvers typically coincide with periods of diplomatic tension — the first were […]

Intelligence community is already feeling a sense of dread about Trump

The election results were only hours old Wednesday when a sober team of intelligence analysts carrying black satchels and secure communications gear began preparing to give President-elect Trump his first unfiltered look at the nation’s secrets. The initial presentation — to be delivered as early as Thursday — would likely be a read-through of the […]

Trump election puts Iran nuclear deal on shaky ground

Donald Trump’s election as president raises the prospect the United States will pull out of the nuclear pact it signed last year with Iran, alienating Washington from its allies and potentially freeing Iran to act on its ambitions. Outgoing President Barack Obama’s administration touted the deal, a legacy foreign policy achievement, as a way to […]

Forces advance toward Mosul, where mass grave is discovered

The horrors do not desist. The basic respect for humanity that was an assumed human trait has been betrayed. This betrayal is the greatest since the atrocities of World War Two. As humans, we put up with injustice, daily, in the world. Death and an overall bleak picture rules the world, but we’ve always believed humans […]