By Jonah Bennett Military analyst Elaine Donnelly has criticized GOP Sen. John McCain for inserting a provision to force women to sign up for the draft in the Senate version of the annual defense bill. “People who support both women and military readiness will be surprised and disappointed to know that behind closed doors, Senate…
By Richard Pollock Daniel Ellsberg, who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers, told a nostalgic anti-war gathering in Washington, D.C., Tuesday “we may be weeks away” from President Barack Obama “furtively” sending new U.S. “combat units” to Iraq. “As we talk, we may be weeks away from Marines being sent as units into combat in Iraq,”…
By Jacob Bojesson More than 600 members from European police and military forces took part in an 11-day exercise in April to better prepare for cross-border crisis situations, including a civil war. The exercise took place in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between April 4-11 as part of the Lowlands Gendarmerie project. The exercise focused on…
By Russ Read Senator Dan Sullivan charged the Obama administration with being dishonest in its characterization of the role U.S. troops are playing in the fight against ISIS, claiming that they are indeed involved in combat, as opposed to what the president has said previously. Sullivan’s comments came Thursday morning during testimony in front of…
By Russ Read U.S. forces have borrowed a strategy from Israel known as the “knock on the roof” in an apparent effort to minimize civilian casualties in the fight against Islamic State. As ISIS continues to suffer losses in Syria and Iraq, its forces have retreated to population centers in order to blend into the civilian population…
By Jonah Bennett Two Russian Su-24 attack aircraft Monday conducted a “simulated attack profile” against the USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea, with one of the jets on Tuesday flying within 30 feet of the destroyer. The USS Donald Cook was in the Baltic Sea conducting a training exercise with a Polish helicopter. According…
By Jonah Bennett The Central Intelligence Agency may ramp up efforts in Syria by supplying rebels with high-powered anti-aircraft weapons, which can target Syrian regime and Russian aircraft. Plan B is supposed to provide a backup to rebels in case the increasingly unstable ceasefire agreement with the regime breaks down, U.S. officials told The Wall…
by Russ Read Rock star-turned-international philanthropist Bono said one of the best weapons the U.S. can use against radical terrorists like Islamic State is comedy, and he advises deploying Amy Schumer and Chris Rock as comedy commandos to fight guns with jokes. The U2 front man offered his strategy during his testimony before the Senate Appropriations State,…
By Jonah Bennett Retired British Army officer Col. Richard Kemp argued in a Tuesday editorial for the Telegraph that opening combat roles to women is a mistake that will result in blood and lowered standards for the military. The British Ministry of Defence is conducting a full-scale review of the physical fitness standards to determine whether or…
Jonah Bennett Former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers, who served as chairman of the House Committee on Intelligence, said Wednesday there are more foreign spies in the United States now than in the country’s entire history, including the Cold War. “There are more spies in the United States today from foreign nation states that at any time in…