The approximately 100 U.S. combat soldiers that President Obama sent to Uganda last month are likely to remain deployed until the leader of the guerrilla group the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) is captured or killed, according to the top U.S. commander for Africa. The...
In another example of unwarranted military profligacy, the U.S. Army has successfully tested a secret hypersonic weapon prototype, traveling at a relatively flat trajectory at about give times the speed of sound (3,805 mph). The new technological capability to kill...
Russian warships are on route to Syrian territorial waters in a move that sends a clear message from Moscow that they would not allow any foreign intervention into Syria's civil unrest. Syria's President Bashar al Assad, a close ally of Russia's, has been violently...
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For months the Obama administration has warned that any serious cuts to the defense budget would be harmful to national security, but any viable cuts would be minuscule. The Pentagon expected to receive roughly $7 trillion over the next decade. Of that, it has already...
