Australia has agreed to purchase F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter aircraft, and the Defense Department will deliver Apache helicopters to Egypt, a Pentagon spokesman announced today. “Our partners in Australia announced that they decided to buy 58 F-35 aircraft,”…
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Strategist Says Social Media Helping Destabilize World
Twitter, Facebook and other types of social media are contributing to global instability, said Robert D. Kaplan, chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor — a team of intelligence experts. The use of social media, he explained, has been shown to unite…
Satellite Imagery Shows Russian Forces Near Ukraine Border
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) has released a package of satellite imagery that shows details of the location and type of Russian units NATO has observed along the border with Ukraine. The imagery comes from the commercial satellite imaging…
Homeland Says N. Korea Capable of EMP Attack on U.S.
“A long-suppressed report prepared by the Department of Homeland Security for the Defense Department concludes that North Korea could deliver on its threats to destroy the United States with a nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack,” reports WND.com. (Click here to read…
U.S. Sends More Marines to Romania, Navy Vessel to Black Sea
PHOTO: U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment assigned to Black Sea Rotational Force 14 learn about Romanian weapon systems from Romanian service members of the 307th Naval Infantry Battalion on March 26th, 2014. The Defense Department is deploying…
U.S. Commander Outlines Posture to Counter North Korean Threats
Readiness is critical to thwarting North Korea’s effort to develop nuclear arms and long-range missiles, the commander of U.S. forces in Korea told the House Armed Services Committee here today. Army Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti, who commands United Nations Command…