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The United States launched a second long range ballistic missile from Vanderberg Air Force Base in California in a period of seven days. The Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) flew over 4000 miles before it came down near the Marshall Islands which is located in the central Pacific Ocean region between Hawaii and the […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin is beefing up his military forces in the Arctic on a scale that hasn’t been seen since the days of the USSR and the Cold War. He’s reopening closed bases and opening new ones in a bid to control the cold but natural resource-rich region One such base holds the 80th […]

Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said Friday that Russia might respond to the US strike in Syria by escalating fighting in war-torn eastern Ukraine. “Now everyone is waiting for the reaction from Russia. Either it will react in Syria or, as some say, unfortunately, in Ukraine,” Waszczykowski said on Polish TV. “There is a certain […]

In his toughest assessment yet of the escalating North Korean ­nuclear crisis, Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned on Friday that a conflict could erupt “at any moment” – and whoever provoked it would pay the price. Analysts said Wang’s warning reflected the danger of an imminent threat. “Tensions have risen … and one has the […]

As tensions climb to historic highs between the US and its allies and North Korea, rumors of massive movements of Chinese troops near North Korea’s border keep surfacing. A Pentagon official told Business Insider that the US had heard the reports but had “not seen anything to corroborate it.” But Chinese troops are always stationed in […]

For President Trump, choosing targets and launching cruise missiles to punish the Syrian regime for using chemical weapons this week may have been a relatively clear-cut decision. The big problem is what comes next. The military had been preparing options for a strike against President Bashar al-Assad since well before 2013, when the Syrian dictator […]

It looks like the Polish government has decided not to purchase used F-16’s from the US after all. Poland’s Deputy Minister of National Defence Bartosz Kownacki had said as recently as January that they were considering purchasing 50 to 100 used Falcons. “We are not going to buy used older versions of the F-16,” Kownacki […]

Apparently passengers traveling to the United States and the United Kingdom from certain countries and on certain airlines will no longer be allowed to take ‘large electronic devices’ with them in the airplane cabin. While specific details of this new policy are not being discussed by US officials it reportedly is only for non US […]

After North Korea tested a salvo of ballistic missiles designed to defeat US and allied missile defenses in the Pacific, speculation has risen about a possible US “decapitation strike” on North Korea. With the help of Stratfor‘s Sim Tack, Business Insider detailed how such a strike would likely play out, but in the interest of keeping […]

The Air Force is facing a shortage of enemy aircraft and pilots to fight. Well, not the ‘real’ enemy but the “Red Air” adversary aircraft for training exercises. To deal with this shortage the Air Force is looking to the private sector. Reportedly, they will issue a draft solicitation for 40,000 hours of adversary air support for […]

A recent report from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists details how the US massively upgraded the lethality of its submarine-based nuclear missiles — and US adversaries like Russia may be spooked to the point of considering countermeasures. Essentially, the US’s latest update to its Trident missiles aboard US Navy submarines ensures that each and every single […]

The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on Tuesday on a bid by Western powers to ban the supply of helicopters to the Syrian government and to blacklist Syrian military commanders over accusations of toxic gas attacks, despite a pledge by Russia to veto the move. The Security Council showdown – pitting Syrian ally […]