A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned.
The satellites' main objectives include detecting nuclear bomb tests,
and their characterizations of asteroids and lesser meteoroids as they
crash through the atmosphere has been a byproduct data bonanza for
scientists.
The Wartime Contracting Commission,
in its first report since Congress established it last year, gives the
most critical assessment to date of the contract that Houston-based
KBR, then a unit of Halliburton Co.,
Pentagon employees have received millions of dollars in free travel and
lodging from foreign countries, trade groups and companies with an
interest in shaping policies or doing business with the US military.
Defense officials say the arrangement is legal, saves taxpayers money and is carefully monitored to ensure there are no conflicts of interest.
But government watchdogs say it allows donors to subtly exert influence
for a small investment compared with the potential gain.
The Supreme Court agreed with the Obama administration [request] and refused to review
Pentagon policy barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in the
military.
The court said it will not hear an
appeal from former Army Capt. James Pietrangelo II, who was dismissed
under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
A Fort Lewis sergeant has been charged in Pierce County Superior Court
with pimping two teenage girls, who allegedly traded sex for money
under his direction and control.
The Marines are talking with at least six districts — including in suburban Atlanta, New Orleans and Las Vegas — about opening schools where every student wears a uniform, participates in Junior ROTC and takes military classes...
If China buys Hummer, does this mean we have to ask them if we can use them in a war? Will they allow enough production if we need more?
It would seem to me that selling assests that will be needed for our military is wrong! What
The mother of football star Pat Tillman, who was killed by friendly fire in 2004 but whose fratricide was deliberately kept from the public and his family, says a general’s testimony to Congress is yet another lie by a military officer about her son’s death.
Testifying in his confirmation hearing as Obama’s new commander for Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal said he “didn’t see any activity by anyone to deceive” the public about the circumstances of Tillman’s death. The death was first reported as a result of enemy fire; Tillman was held up as a hero and quickly received the Silver Star.
McChrystal personally helped expedite Tillman’s Silver Star award, even though he later acknowledged he had “suspicions” that the ex-NFL star had been killed by his own men.
CNN reports that Tillman’s mother says McChrystal knew at the memorial service that her son died from friendly fire.
It is interesting the Marines characterized Flushing Meadows Park as “enemy territory.” In fact, according to our rulers and their military functionaries, the entire United States is “enemy territory” in need of martial law.
A Muslim man accused of killing a soldier in a "political and religious" attack on a military recruiting center in Arkansas has pleaded not guilty to a capital murder charge.
Abdulhakim Muhammad was ordered held without bail at a hearing in Little Rock.
A man with "political and religious motives" killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another in a targeted attack on a military recruiting center, police said. The shootings were not believed to be part of a broader scheme.
"On the 28 May, a small anti-submarine ship from the Baltic fleet was working on a host of exercises in the gulf of Finland including artillery fire at aerial targets," a navy spokesman said. "No-one was injured."
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – A US weapons lab on Friday pulled back the curtain on a super laser with the power to burn as hot as a star.
The National Ignition Facility's main purpose is to serve as a tool for gauging the reliability and safety of the US nuclear weapons arsenal but scientists say it could deliver breakthroughs in safe fusion power.
"We have invented the world's largest laser system," actor-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said during a dedication ceremony attended by thousands including state and national officials.
"We can create the stars right here on earth. And I can see already my friends in Hollywood being very upset that their stuff that they show on the big screen is obsolete. We have the real stuff right here."
NIF is touted as the world's highest-energy laser system. It is located inside the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory about an hour's drive from San Francisco.
Equipment connected to a house-sized sph
Watching retired Gen. Colin Powell refer to the parable of the Good Samaritan during Sunday’s Memorial Day ceremonies on the Mall in Washington, it struck me that Powell was giving hypocrisy a bad name.
US soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division gang raped a 14 year old Iraqi girl and murdered her and her family —including a 5 year old child. An additional soldier was involved in the cover-up.
The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare. The military command would complement a civilian effort to be announced
The Defense Department is continuing its push to reduce human thought and human action to a few lines of code. The latest effort comes from the Air Force which is looking to build “mathematical or computational models of human attention, memory, cate
The Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012, the top U.S. Army officer said Tuesday.
Given the serious charges against Dr. Kuklo–including fraud, forgery, and conducting an unapproved experiment on soldiers–the University of Washington’s failure to take action
Round four of mankind’s epic battle against the walking, talking, killer machines starts tonight with the opening of Terminator Salvation. But humanoid robots aren’t confined to the movies.
Cataldi had no idea how he'd gotten to where he now lay, some 200 meters from the dilapidated building where his buddies slept. But he suspected what had caused this nightmare: His Klonopin prescription had run out.
Forget the battlefield radios, the combat PDAs or even infantry hand signals. When the soldiers of the future want to communicate, they’ll read each other’s minds.
Tuesday evening offered an unusual opportunity to question the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2001-2005), Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, at an alumni club dinner.
[on the cheap] President Obama plans deep new cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal at a time when the government faces a 15-year backlog of warheads already waiting to be dismantled and a need for billions of dollars in new facilities to store and dispos
Highly sensitive details of a US military missile air defense system were found on a second-hand hard drive bought on eBay. The test launch procedures were found on a hard disk for the THAAD ground to air missile defence system, used to shoot down Sc
The Pentagon doesn't anticipate disposing of all of its chemical weapons until 2021 -- nearly a decade beyond the 2012 deadline set by the international Chemical Weapons Convention.
In a highly unusual reversal, the Defense Dept’s inspector general’s office has withdrawn a report exonerating a Pentagon public relations program that made extensive use of retired officers as military analysts for television and radio networks.
Atlanta’s Marine school is yet another example of the ongoing process of militarization in American society. Infowars has reported on the presence of uniformed soldiers at public events such as the Kentucky Derby and the Boston Marathon...
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