Robots, Deep-Sea Sensors Help Pentagon Futurists Hunt Subs
• Wired.comNo matter how silent or deep you run, enemy submariners, the Pentagon’s mad scientists say they’re getting better at finding you.
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Russian War Games send a strong message against NATO intervention in Syria?
• globalresearch.ca, By Mahdi Darius NazemroayaIs there a connection between events in Syria (maybe even US tension with North Korea) and Russia’s impromptu Black Sea war games that started on March 28, 2013?
North Korea: War could break out ‘today or tomorrow’
• The RawStory.comNorth Korea dramatically escalated its warlike rhetoric on Thursday, warning that it had authorised plans for nuclear strikes on targets in the United States.
Defense secretary: North Korea threats pose ‘real and clear danger’
• The RawStory.comNorth Korea’s threats and recent actions represent a “real and clear danger” to the United States as well as its allies South Korea and Japan, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday.
U.S. deploys sea-based radar amid North Korea crisis
• The RawStory.comThe United States has deployed a sophisticated sea-based radar to the ocean east of Japan to track any North Korean ballistic missile launches, a Pentagon official said Tuesday.
US Navy Moving Warship Closer To North Korea In Response To Threats
• Business InsiderOfficials tell NBC News that the U.S. Navy is shifting the USS Fitzgerald — a guided-missile destroyer in the Pacific Ocean — amid ongoing North Korean threats.
Prison-Wide Hunger Strike Still Rages at Guantánamo
• http://fff.org, by Andy WorthingtonThree weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled, “A Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo,” in which I reported the stories emerging from Guantánamo of a prison-wide hunger strike, the most severe since George W. Bush was president, and the gulf between what
'Fiddling While the Pentagon Burns'
• weeklystandard.comMuch has been made of the fact that the new spending bill passed by Congress this past month has given the Defense Department both $10 billion additional dollars to help alleviate the shortfalls in its operations and maintenance accounts ....
War Scare in Korea – A Manufactured Crisis
• Lewrockwell.comThe United States and the two feuding Koreas could blunder into a real war unless both Pyongyang and Washington cease provoking one another.
Pentagon Gears Up For Global Cyber Warfare. China Accused of Cyber Espionage
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Stop NATO“Reuters found at least three papers on cyber-warfare on a document-sharing website that were co-authored by university faculty members and PLA researchers, ” whereas in most developed nations, “university professors in recent decades have been reluc
Let’s All Stop Saying ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ Forever
• Wired.comAny term that conflates nuclear weapons with any other kind of weapon is bound to be a poor descriptor.
Four children killed in Afghan-coalition operation: police
• trust.orgAfghan and international special forces staged a night raid in the country's restive east, with police on Wednesday saying five civilians died in the operation, four of them children.
Game of Drones
• freebeacon.comChina’s military is expanding its unmanned aerial vehicle forces with a new Predator-like armed drone and a new unmanned combat aircraft amid growing tensions with neighbors in Asia, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
Don't Freak Out If You See a B - 52 Targeting Your Home - VIDEO
• Daily Paul.comThe following short video shows a B-52 Stratofortress during a standard training mission of the War Week, an exercise which incorporates Aerial Refueling, Weapons Tactics and High Altitude Maneuvering.
If the Military’s Future Stealth Jet Fails, the Navy’s Got a Backup Plan
• Wired.comThe U.S. Navy is carefully backing away from the troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program —
New North Korean Video Shows 'Defeat' of U.S. - 150,000 U.S. Citizens 'Taken Hostage
• Daily Paul.comThe four-minute video, titled "A Short, Three-Day War," begins with images of a massive artillery and rocket barrage, followed by a large-scale land and air assault with North Korean troops streaming over the border.
After the Aircraft Carrier: 3 Alternatives to the Navy’s Vulnerable Flattops
• http://www.wired.com, By David AxeThe U.S. Navy’s huge, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers — capital ships that have long dominated military planning and budgeting — are slowly becoming obsolete, weighed down by escalating costs, inefficiency and vulnerability to the latest enemy weap
Marine kills two at Quantico base, takes own life
• www.reuters.comAn active-duty Marine shot dead two fellow service members at a base at Quantico, Virginia, then barricaded himself in a building and killed himself, prompting a brief lockdown of the base, the Marines said on Friday.
Pentagon Swears It Isn’t Abandoning BlackBerries for iOS Devices
• Wired.comCalm yourselves, defense bureaucrats. The Pentagon isn’t about to swap out your BlackBerries for the latest iPhones and iPads.
China’s Testing Woes Remind That Developing Carrier Planes Is Hard
• Wired.comThe ongoing trials of China’s first aircraft carrier and her ship-based jet fighters represent a major leap ahead in capability for the People’s Liberation Army Navy
North Korea Threatens To Strike US Bases In Japan
• Business InsiderThe North Korean army on Thursday threatened a possible strike against US military bases in Japan, in response to the use of nuclear-armed US B-52 bombers in joint military drills with South Korea.
Israel Has 300+ Nukes!
• Daily Paul.comWith Obama's visit to Israel, the "start a new war" rhetoric on TV is off the charts. All the talk currently about chemical weapons and them hitting Israel, but no talk about Israel could counterstrike any country with a small tactical nuke anytime.
'Jesus loves nukes': US Air Force taught the Christian Just War Theory
• www.telegraph.co.ukTo the men and women burdened with the ultimate responsibility of launching America’s nuclear missiles it was known as the “Jesus loves nukes” lesson.
The defence of freedom begins in the military
• Al JazeeraThe United States Air Force Academy has been pushing its Dominionist Christian beliefs onto its personnel
Blast at Nevada military site kills seven Marines, hurts seven
• ReutersSeven U.S. Marines were killed and seven others injured during a training exercise at a military ammunition storage facility in western Nevada, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.
Autonomous Cars Patrol Israeli Border
• http://www.technewsdaily.com, Douglas MainAlong Israel's borders, a small number of automobiles patrol the area for signs of intruders. But unlike most vehicles, these cars have no drivers, and — for the most part —drive themselves.
Lawrence Wilkerson, Former Chief of Staff to Sec. of State Colin Powell, Joins MRFF Advisory Board
• MRFFFar more serious for the health of America's Armed Forces are two issues ripping at their very soul: sexual assault and the lack of religious freedom. Besides breaking the law, the first destroys irreparably the bond so important to military servicem
My Lai 45 Years Later—And the Unknown Atrocities of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan
• http://www.thedailybeast.comOn the anniversary of the infamous My Lai massacre, Nick Turse recalls the numerous, less-well-known atrocities that marked the Vietnam War, and asks which atrocities from Iraq and Afghanistan we will be remembering in 45 years.
Hagel: U.S. to Beef Up Missile Defense
• youtubeThe U.S. will add 14 interceptors to a West Coast-based missile defense system, reflecting concern about North Korea's focus on developing nuclear weapons and its advances in long-range missile technology.
Pentagon’s 13 Offensive ‘Cyberattack’ Teams to Strike Across the World
• Antiwar.comGeneral Touts New 'Cyber Cadre's' Attack Capabilities
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