LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett Former President Barack Obama left a legacy of radical social change in the military, but aside from major shifts like allowing women in all combat roles and repealing the ban on open transgender service, many cases of rampant political correctness have been memory-holed. Here are just seven egregious…
Listen to TLR’s Podcast! By Kody Fairfield According to a tweet from Wikileaks‘ official Twitter account, their founder Julian Assange will agree to extradition if President Obama grants whistleblower Chelsea Manning clemency. “If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case,” read the tweet. If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange…
By Thomas Phippen The Pentagon has developed unmanned drones that swarm like bugs, fly in formation, and make decisions all without pilots. New footage of Perdix, a micro-drone swarm system that the Department of Defense has been testing for the past year, shows 103 Perdix drones being deployed from F/A-18 Super Hornets. The drones “collective decision-making, adaptive formation flying,…
By Ryan Pickrell The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet issued China a strong warning Wednesday. Admiral Harry Harris, head of U.S. Pacific Command, criticized China’s “aggressive” behavior in the South China Sea in a speech at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, according to Reuters. China has been expanding its presence, particularly its military presence,…
by Saagar Enjeti Hezbollah terrorists featured U.S. armored personnel carriers in their latest video, and nobody seems to know how they got their hands on them. The latest propaganda video was shot in Syria, where Hezbollah is forward deployed at the behest of its Iranian masters. Hezbollah is a Lebanon-based terrorist organization, heavily sponsored and managed by the…
by Kody Fairfield In all the uproar over the leaked documents showing that Democratic nominee for President Hillary Clinton allegedly saying, “Why can’t we just drone this guy?” in reference to silencing Wikileaks, and its editor/founder Julian Assange, the United Nations (UN) felt the need to weigh in. On Monday, the UN released a statement essentially saying that the…
by Micah J. Fleck Veteran Affairs is just another bad government body with incoherent, inefficient methods of doing things. Nowhere is that more clear than in this most recent case, where Chicago’s Edward Hines Jr. VA hospital was found mishandling cadavers. Reports Tribunist: The Department of Veterans Affairs can’t seem to keep up with the burden…
by Jonah Bennett Soldiers in Alaska are officially banned from attending marijuana fairs, even though the drug is legal in the state, the Army stated Thursday. This ban applies to fairs and conventions and also extends to “hemp” products, as well, the Associated Press reports. The reason that 11,000 Alaska-based soldiers are banned from these sorts of events…
by Jonah Bennett A majority of active-duty troops stringently oppose nation-building efforts abroad, according to a new poll, preferring instead that the military focus on doing what it does best: killing terrorists and keeping the homeland safe. Commissioned by Military Times and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University, the poll found that…
by Jonah Bennett The first female soldier to ever attempt Green Beret special forces training has washed out of the course. She failed this week to complete the requirements of U.S. Army Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS), The Washington Times reports. The unnamed female soldier began her training on Sept. 2 after reporting to Fort Bragg,…