At least twenty-five ships from the United States, Canada, Britain, France and Italy on Saturday launched over 110 Tomahawk cruise-guided missiles in an attack on Libya’s radar and anti-aircraft sites around the capitol of Tripoli.
The military action, dubbed “Operation Odyssey Dawn”, comes as a result of Friday’s United Nations Security Council vote on Resolution 1973 to protect the people of Libya from it’s long-time ruler, Colonel Muamar Ghadafi…
The 17-year old policy banning gays from openly serving in the U.S military has been repealed by the Congress and is headed to President Barack Obama’s desk just in time for Christmas.
The U.S. Senate, in a special Saturday session, formally repealed the ban on gays by a 65-31 vote with a handful of Republican cross overs. The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to repeal the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy” by a 250-175 vote on a mostly party line vote…
An international organization committed to opening access to government actions through the release of anonymously-submitted documents—WikiLeaks — is expected to make a major announcement from Europe on Saturday. (Read more coverage from Big 3 News about WikiLeaks here and here). “Major WikiLeaks announcement in Europe at 10 a.m. tomorrow,” the group stated on their social [...]
Calling it a historic moment, U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that combat operations in Iraq had ended and the 50,000 transitional troops left behind would return home by the end of 2011.
“From this desk, seven and a half years ago, President Bush announced the beginning of military operations in Iraq,” the President said in an 8 p.m. televised speech to the nation. “Much has changed since that night.”
Obama said a war to disarm a state became a fight against an insurgency, while terrorism and sectarian warfare threatened to tear Iraq apart…
An Internet video released this week which claims to be classified U.S. military footage from an Apache helicopter “depicting the indiscriminate slaying” of civilians — including two Reuters news staff — is itself coming under intense scrutiny after the Army released records of its 2007 investigation into the Baghdad, Iraq attack.
The video in question is “Collateral Murder”, published by WikiLeaks, and has drawn the ire of military and some conservatives for providing what they say is an incomplete picture of battle conditions on the ground during the attack…
What does the owner of the largest private mercenary force do for pocket cash? Highlight as a CIA spy of course. You can leave the author a moderated comment about this article by posting it below, or email: [email protected]
Yes the headline is provocative but, this isn’t the first time this has happened.In the so called Anbar “awakening”, we used the same play book. When your state’s strength is built on warfare and welfare, it can’t help but subsidize it. You can leave the author a moderated comment about this article by posting it [...]
Less than a week after a deadly shooting at a military post in Ft. Hood, Texas, the nation paused Wednesday to honor the sacrifice of veterans…
With flags flying at half-staff around the nation, soldiers and civilians continue to mourn the loss of 13 and the wounding of at least 30 at Fort Hood, Texas. First responders reported hearing, “pop, pop, pop,” as they arrived on the scene at the Soldier Readiness Processing center on Thursday. The suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was an Army psychiatrist. Investigators what to know what made Hasan open fire on his own…
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