National Security
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State of unreadiness
My colleague Timothy Whiteman highlighted last Thursday the number of Air Force squadrons that will have to cease training later…
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Boston will rise
It’s too much to say we don’t know squat yet about the bombing at the Boston Marathon yesterday, but it’s…
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Breaking: Explosions at Boston Marathon kill 3, critically injure dozens more (Update)
Updated, 4:18 p.m., E.T. Former police chief William Bratton has confirmed that the explosions (there were several) were the result…
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Gitmo: Guards battle al-Qaeda's 'worst of the worst'
Guards assaulted with “a concoction of feces, urine, vomit and sperm…” U.S. Military Police conducted early morning raids on the…
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Jordanian lawmakers demand release of 'hero' killer of seven Jewish girls
“Referred to the imprisoned soldier as a ‘hero’…” The Jordanian lower house of Parliament came within a hair’s breadth of…
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Defense cuts leaves westernmost U.S. citizens, soil vulnerable to Korean nukes
“Our allies question our commitment…” Due to Obama Administration cuts in the U.S. defense budget, sovereign American soil and tens…
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Wrong, hackneyed, overworked: Beyond the usual analysis of “China and North Korea”
Is there any piece of received wisdom more universally invoked than the inane piety that China wants to calm North…
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Iran deepens ties with Egypt, MB infiltrates National Military Academy
“[Unlike Egypt] the active-duty Marine Corps has less than 150 M1A1 Abrams tanks in its inventory at any given time…”…
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Marine Infantry Officer Course: Both women unceremoniously dumped on first day
And the failure rate is… Both of the two female Marine second lieutenants who voluntarily enrolled in the basic Infantry…
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Would-be terrorist sentenced in planned attack on undefended military facility
Machine guns and grenades to be used… A Washington state man was sentenced to an 18-year prison sentence in a…
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Wounded British soldier asks for 'boob flash' to help relieve pain
But only as a therapeutic measure… When a British soldier was caught in a Taliban bomb blast that resulted in…
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Observations on Obama’s trip to Israel: Apologies (Part 1)
Obama went to Israel, and, as expected, gave some bland speeches and didn’t suggest putting anything new on the table…
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MSM reporting on Obama presser in Palestine fails to mention Arafat backdrop
On Thursday, at the height of his goodwill tour of Israel and environs, President Obama held a press conference in…
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TX school district teaches that U.S. is to blame for 9/11
“Don’t know much about history…” If that describes your son or daughter and he or she attends Flour Bluff (Texas)…
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U.S. confers ‘EZ-Pass’ status on travelers from Saudi Arabia
As the TSA continues to make headlines — and trouble — for Americans in strollers and wheelchairs, a new report suggests…
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The Shakiest Nukes in the West
“Listen up, yo: I’m deterring you now” In case everyone in Northeast Asia missed it, in spite of their intelligence…
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TSA forces Marine who lost both legs in combat to stand up and walk
Maybe the Transportation Security Administration has ventured into the realm of faith healing. That might explain why a Marine who…
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Obama in Palestine
It will be interesting to watch the media reports of President Barack Obama’s upcoming trip to Israel and the Palestinian…
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Oops – The IDF didn’t kill Baby Mashrawi (and other things that didn’t happen during Pillar of Defense)
Not killed by the IDF (AP Photo) [Warning: graphic images] Diligent readers of the Washington Post may know by now…
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Egypt, Cyprus, Turkey: Pax Americana crack-up watch
If you want to know what it will look like for the status quo crack-up to actually happen, as the…
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More questions McCain-Graham must needs Rand ask
Still burping up undigested arugula that Michelle makes Barack serve to dinner guests, War Hawks Johnny and Lindsey emerged from the shadows…
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How did State Department fail to vet Samira Ibrahim?
Samira who? That is more-or-less the result returned by a search of the State Department’s web page naming the winners…
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Despite pat-down, TSA inspector with bomb in pants waved through security
Is that a bomb in your pants, or…? The TSA isn’t laughing this morning, not when a major daily newspaper…
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Obama to finally get his anti-Gitmo, Bush-torture show trial revenge?
…and via a Bin Laden-by-marriage no less Attorney General Eric Holder was going to define his career by trying the mastermind of…
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Could guns have prevented 9/11?
Recent murder rampages in Colorado, Connecticut, Arizona, Texas, Oregon and other places have served as catalysts for discussion surrounding gun…
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Passenger jet pilot reports drone sighting over JFK Airport
How pervasive is the Obama administration’s drone program? A report by ABC News suggests the answer might be “very”: [An]…
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Obama Administration admits Benghazi failures, Woodward sequester claims
Republicans need to learn when they have won an argument, rather than continuously demanding more “answers” to supposedly unanswered questions…
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Dead in the water: Obama’s military and the Iran nuclear threat
Two to three years ago, the United States Department of Defense had enough military forces on station in, or readily…
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