Advertisement
Featured
Greek Pitch for Second Bailout Bombs
by Sun TzuFrom Reuters: Reuters image Greek political leaders said they had clinched a deal on economic reforms needed to secure a second EU bailout, but euro zone finance ministers demanded more steps and a parliamentary seal of approval before providing the aid. The EU and the International Monetary Fund are exasperated...
Advertisement
Categories
- Afghanistan
- Africa
- arms control/disarmament
- Asia
- Border Security
- Burma
- chemical/biological weapons
- China
- Communism
- Congress
- Cuba
- Culture/Art
- cyber threats
- diplomacy
- Economy
- education
- Egypt
- Energy
- Espionage
- Europe
- Exclusives
- Featured Story
- Foreign Policy
- Greece
- ground zero mosque
- History
- Homeland Security
- human rights
- Humanitarian
- Intelligence
- Iran
- Iraq
- Islam
- Islamic extremism
- Israel
- Justice/Legal
- Latin America
- Media Criticism
- Michael Yon Dispatches
- Middle East
- Military Funding
- Military Technology
- News
- North Korea
- Nuclear Proliferation
- Obama
- Open Thread
- Other
- Politics
- Russia
- saudi arabia
- sharia
- Soldiers
- Strategy
- Syria
- Terrorism
- Uncategorized
- United Nations
- united states
- veterans
- Weapons
Blogroll
- 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America
- ABCNews
- Ace of Spades HQ
- Agence France Press
- American Foreign Policy Council
- American Legion
- American Spectator
- Ann Coulter
- Army Times
- Associated Press
- Atlas Shrugs
- Ben Shapiro
- Big Hollywood
- BLACKFIVE
- BlogsLucianneLoves.com
- Bloomberg
- Bob McCarty
- Boston Globe
- Breitbart.com
- Breitbart.tv
- C-SPAN
- Canada Free Press
- Castle Argghhh!
- CDR Salamander
- Center for Security Policy
- Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Center for Vision & Values
- Charles Krauthammer
- Chicago Tribune
- China Post
- Christopher Hitchens
- Claremont Institute
- Commentary
- Daily Gut
- Defense News
- Dennis Miller Radio
- Dennis Prager
- Der Spiegel
- Diana West
- Drudge Report
- Economist
- Financial Times
- Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Founding Bloggers
- Fox Nation
- Fox News
- Free Republic
- Freedom House
- Gates of Vienna
- Gateway Pundit
- GayPatriot
- Generational Dynamics
- George Marshall Institute
- George Will
- Glenn Beck
- Heritage Foundation
- Hot Air
- Huffington Post
- Hugh Hewitt
- Human Events
- Instapundit
- Institute of World Politics
- Investors Business Daily
- James Hudnall
- James Madison Institute
- Jawa Report
- Jerusalem Post
- John Gibson
- John Nolte
- Khaleej Times
- Lars Larson
- Laura Ingraham
- LibertarianRepublican.net
- Long War Journal
- Los Angeles Times
- Lucianne.com
- Mark Levin
- Mark Steyn
- Media Research Center
- Melanie Morgan
- Michael Savage
- Michael Walsh
- Michael Yon
- Mickey Kaus
- Mike Flynn
- Military Officers Association of America
- Move America Forward
- MSNBC
- National Center for Public Policy Research
- National Review
- National Review’s The Corner
- Nationalsecurity.org
- Navy Times
- Neal Boortz
- New Republic
- New York Magazine
- New York Post
- New York Times
- Newport Beach Now
- NewsBusters
- Newsweek
- Pajamas Media
- Pat Dollard
- Patterico’s Pontifications
- Politico
- Power Line
- PR Newswire
- Pravda
- Protein Wisdom
- Real Clear Politics
- Reason
- RedState
- Rep. McCotter YouTube Channel
- Reuters
- Ricochet
- RobertRinger.com
- Roger L. Simon
- Roll Call
- Rolling Stone
- Rush Limbaugh
- Rusty Humphries
- Salon
- Sean Hannity
- SecureAmericaNow.org
- Slate
- Smoking Gun
- South Park Episodes
- Tammy Bruce
- The Brody File
- The Daily Beast
- The Daily Caller
- The Enterprise Report
- The Hill
- The National Interest
- The Spectator U.K.
- Thomas Sowell
- Time
- Times U.K.
- Townhall.com
- U.K. Daily Mail
- U.K. Guardian
- U.K. Telegraph
- U.S. News
- USA Today
- Vanity Fair
- Volokh Conspiracy
- Wall Street Journal
- Washington Examiner
- Washington Post
- Washington Times
- Weekly Standard
- WorldThreats.com
Strategy
Congress Passes Bill Opening U.S. Skies To Drones
From the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON — After five years of legislative struggling, 23 stopgap measures and a two-week shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, Congress finally has passed a bill aimed at prodding the nation’s aviation system into a new high-tech era in which satellites are central to air traffic control and piloted planes share the [...]
Lt-Col Challenges The Official Rosy Version Of Events In Afghanistan: ‘Absence Of Success On….Every Level’
From the Army Times:
Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis
An Army officer is fed up with “rosy official statements” that paint Afghanistan as a picture of progress, and he is demanding military leaders come clean about the “absence of success on virtually every level.”
“How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding [...]
Swarming Nano Quadrotors: The New Warfare?
This is apparently the future of warfare. Fascinating…and kinda spooky at the same time. These are small UAV drones developed by KMel Robotics and GRASP Labs at the University of Pennsylvania.
embedded by Embedded Video
jQuery('#lazyload_post_3 img').lazyload({placeholder: '/wp-includes/images/blank.gif'});
Iran’s Growing Energy Links With Pakistan and Iraq
The Yadavaran oilfield
Iran continues its efforts to develop strategic ties with its neighbors, including both Iraq and Pakistan. Iran is dramatically increasing its joint crude oil production with Iraq. They have actually accelerated production in the Yadavaran oilfield in Iraq, which is estimated to hold perhaps 12 billion barrels of crude oil. At the [...]
Obama Counters Panetta: ‘I Don’t Think Israel Has Made a Decision’ to Strike Iran
(AFP) US President Barack Obama said he did not think Israel had made a decision on whether to launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear installations, a threat that has rattled the region.
Obama — seeking to reassure Americans over the danger posed by Tehran’s suspect nuclear program, and any negative side-effects for the United States [...]
The Lesson of the Past Decade: Ideology Is Al Qaeda’s Power, Not Leaders
Ten years have slipped by since Osama bin Laden’s jihadists massacred thousands of men, women and children in the northeastern United States, prompting the start of what Americans came to know as the War on Terror. The current administration, however, insists on more benign terminology, choosing for political reasons to describe the conflict as an [...]
For Whom the Drone Tolls: Air Force to Cut 10,000 Airmen Next Year
LOLITA C. BALDOR (AP) – Associated Press WASHINGTON The Air Force on Friday detailed plans to cut the service by nearly 10,000 active, National Guard and Reserve airmen next year, as part of a broad move to downsize and shift capabilities around the country to be better prepared for wars [...]
New York Times Laments Income Loss for Afghan Businesses
After ten years of nearly constant derisiveness and complacency toward force protection and convenient ignorance of policies that have caused the severe wounding and killing of thousands of American Servicemen, The New York Times took the time to write about the loss of income for business in Afghanistan...
MEDEVAC Scandal: Officer Reports AMEDD Sacrificing Soldier Safety
An Army officer writes:
The Army is not resisting Dustoff policy change because our leadership honestly believes the current policy is superior, but rather because of AMEDD’s [Army Medical Department] protectionist attitude toward “their” Dustoff MEDEVAC helicopters.
I’m an active duty infantry officer, and I’ve been following the Dustoff issue since [...]
Follow Us on Twitter
Subscribe via RSS
Got a Tip?
Exclusive: Obama Reads Book; Author Corrects President’s Reading Comprehension