Tag: Pentagon

Last year, both the U.S. Congress and Senate seemed to hear the chorus of defense officials calling for an increased emphasis on the defense of America’s orbital infrastructure when they put together budget proposals for an increase in defense spending. Unfortunately, when the two budgets were reconciled into a single bill, both the plans for […]

The recent revelation that the United States military had funneled some $22 million out of the Pentagon’s black budget to investigate reports of Unidentified Flying Objects was met with a variety of responses in the media, and from the public at large.  Some saw the investigation as a waste of money, others called it confirmation […]

As tensions continue to mount between the United States and North Korea, the American public has been more conscious of the president’s nuclear launch capabilities than any time since the Cold War. Those critical of the president have voiced concerns about his emotionally stability, while the president himself has even taken to making jokes about […]

Beginning on Monday, January 1, transgender individuals are now allowed to join the U.S. military, after the Pentagon was forced to comply with a federal court ruling issued last month. During the summer, President Trump went to Twitter to declare that transgender individuals would not be allowed in the military “in any capacity” because of the high medical costs […]

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited the American Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mattis is the first defense secretary to visit Guantanamo Bay since Donald Rumsfeld in January 2002. The detention center was set up to hold terrorism suspects shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001. GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — US Defense Secretary Jim […]

Reports are showing that the Pentagon spent $22 million dollars looking into UFO’s or unidentified flying objects between 2007 and 2012. The program was shut down citing better uses of the money. The U.S. government ran a program for investigating reports of unidentified flying objects until 2012, the Department of Defense confirmed for ABC News. As […]

Earlier this week, it was revealed that a secret Pentagon program, entitled the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, has been conducting investigations into reports of Unidentified Flying Objects submitted primarily by military personnel for years.  Now, Luis Elizondo, the former head of the program who resigned “in protest” earlier this year, is shedding some light […]

Despite publicly denying active investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) for decades, the Pentagon has actually devoted considerable resources into the matter in recent years, according to information uncovered by the New York Times.  However, some of the most interesting elements of this developing story lie beneath the surface. Since 2007, an office on the […]

The answer is always aliens: WASHINGTON — In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find. Which was how the Pentagon wanted it. For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with […]

Over the years, many have lamented the end of Special Forces, foreseeing the destruction of the Green Berets, a slipping of training and selection standards, and plenty of general navel-gazing about how it “use to be.”  Hell, I remember buying a copy of Soldier of Fortune magazine in the PX at Fort Bragg over a […]

The U.S. agency tasked with protecting the country from missile attacks is scouting the West Coast for places to deploy new anti-missile defenses, two Congressmen said on Saturday, as North Korea’s missile tests raise concerns about how the United States would defend itself from an attack. Read the whole story from Reuters. Featured image courtesy […]

The Pentagon’s plan to ban the use of older types of cluster bombs due to take effect on Jan. 1, 2019, has been delayed indefinitely. US officials are stating that safety improvements in munitions technology, in particular, because of a large number of bombs that failed to explode hasn’t advanced enough to replace older stockpiles. […]