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While President Obama has been reluctant to drop even verbal bombs on Syria, former Vice President Cheney wanted to use real ones back in 2007…. Ready to bomb, reluctant to condemn… From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON — Former Vice President

The great folks over at China Defense Blog have photos of the YLGAO1, a police APC being deployed in China. As they note, it features a water cooler, central air conditioning, and even carpeting. After all, why be uncomfortable when

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The Europeans should be able to find him. After all, it was European firms that apparently built this massive tunnel system for him. From the UK’s Telegraph: Go ahead, try to find me… Obsessed by his own security, the Libyan

Sgt. Major Mike Barnett offers this list of 54 books for Marines to read so they can better understand the history and culture of of the USMC. There are some great works here. “13 Cent Killers: The 5th Marine Snipers

From the Associated Press: BRUSSELS — As the battle in Libya appeared at stalemate, it was an open secret that foreign military advisers were working covertly inside the country providing guidance to rebels and giving tactical intelligence to NATO aircraft

Don’t worry, we’re coming… There’s a troubling report in the Air Force Times about the Pave Hawk HH-60, which are used for search and rescue missions. The Air Force says that only 57% of the fleet is available for missions

An anti-Israeli activist goes into a Muslim-owned shop in London and berates the owner for stocking Israeli dates. Israel is an “apartheid regime,” she tells him. The owners response is priceless: “What country are you in? Why are you not

From wire reports: Residents in northeast Georgia have rallied to send cases of shaving cream to Marines downrange, and it’s not to help the first sergeant enforce grooming standards. Members of Camp Pendleton, Calif.-based 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, now deployed

From the AP: Two American men already held for two years in Tehran have been sentenced to 8 years each in prison on charges of espionage and illegal entry into Iran, state TV reported Saturday.

The Space and Missile Defense Conference in Huntsville, Alabama just broke up and the mood was gloomy. The comments by Lt. General Patrick O’Reilly, head of the Missile Defense Agency based on Redstone Arsenal, and Dr. Uzi Rubin, the first

Let the cracks and jokes begin! Svetlana Medvedeva, with her husband From The Moscow Times: A first lady’s ceremonial duties are many and varied, but Svetlana Medvedeva may claim the oddest of all should she accept an invitation to chair

Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation stands tall… Russia Today reports on the anniversary: [youtube EVg-aVs6aag nolink]

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China sent its first aircraft carrier Varyag out for sea trials. But another Soviet carrier, Kiev, sits in another Chinese harbor, ready for its mission. In 1996 a Chinese company bought it and has now converted it into a floating

From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON — The Army improperly tested new bullet-blocking plates for body armor and cannot be certain that 5 million pieces of the critical battlefield equipment meet the standards to protect U.S. troops, the Defense Department’s inspector

Allen West sends a short letter to the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Obviously these people don’t know their history if they are confused at all by this (very brief) letter. As most BigPeace readers could tell them, the

From the Associated Press: Sleep well, soldier ST. LOUIS — A doctor once told Albert Brown he shouldn’t expect to make it to 50, given the toll taken by his years in a Japanese labor camp during World War II

How much are we really spending on fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? Based on this interesting analysis, no one really knows. Consider some numbers. In FY 2011 Congress has authorized $113 billion for the war in Afghanistan and $46

A British center-left think tank has done an analysis of the words used by left-of-center and conservative analysts in determining the roots causes behind the UK riots. They looked at more than 200 articles from leading blogs on the left

Take a group of combat-tested vets, put them up on stage, let them tell jokes about getting shot in the head, and you have the GIs of Comedy. Its a collection of five guys from different branches. And it’s quite

A foreign policy team? Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute is always refreshing to read. Not that I always agree with him, mind you. He recently wrote a devastating attack on the absolute foolishness of Obama’s foreign policy as it

Today, fifty years ago, the Berlin Wall went up. One of those living in the East and caught was Ulrich Pfeifer, an engineer. Pfeifer escaped in the days that followed by slipping through the Berlin sewer system. He then spent

Actually, that was the position of New York Times columnist Gail Collins in November 2008 concerning President George W. Bush. The economic situation was so bad, she wanted Bush to resign and step aside so that the economic problems could