The US Has Screwed Up in the Muslim World for 36 Years

In America’s War for the Greater Middle East, Andrew J. Bacevich, one of our most eloquent and incisive students of American foreign policy, military history, and the often-vexed nexus between the two, makes a startling claim: For the last 36 years, the United States has been engaged in an ill-advised, counterproductive struggle to shape the destiny of the Muslim […]

Watch: Daesh (ISIS) bound nuclear smugglers foiled in Moldova – Again

In the vehicle, SIS agents uncovered what they were looking for – dangerous nuclear material, which was even more dangerously transported, in aluminum foil.

SIS agents also gun recovered counterfeit identification documents, guns and knives. Thus far, the Chisinau Prosecutor has only released that two of the arrested were Moldovan citizens, and the pair will face ten years on the radioactive smuggling charges alone.

Jordan’s special forces are some of the best in the Middle East

Jordan’s special forces team, grouped under Jordan’s Joint Special Operations Command, is 14,000 strong and is one of the most effectivefighting and intelligence forces in the region. Jordanian special forces frequently train alongsideUS forces. Meanwhile, Jordan is a global center for special forces training operations. Jordan’s King Abdullah Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC) is the centerpiece of the country’s Special Operations capabilities […]

U.S. Air Force Deploys B-52 Bombers in the Campaign Against ISIS

The U.S. Air Force has deployed B-52 long-range bombers to the Middle East for the first time since the Gulf war ended over 25 years ago to begin striking the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, officials said Saturday. The U.S. Air Force Central Command said in a statement that an unknown number of B-52s […]

Israel says Middle East arms proliferation imperils its military edge

Israel’s neighbours are buying arms on a scale that threatens its regional military superiority, the deputy Israeli air force chief said on Sunday, in remarks that appeared aimed at helping secure more defence aid from a reluctant Washington. U.S. military payouts to Israel, currently around $3 billion annually, expire in 2018, and Israeli officials have […]

Is Hezbollah really coming through the border in Arizona?

If there really is Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] training camp eight miles into Mexico, then let’s go. I’ll bring the beer and you stock up on ammo, because we aren’t leaving them there. But we all know they are not and never were there.