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Breitbart’s Dr. Sebastian Gorka On Future Warfare

What does Future Warfare look like? Does it invoke in one’s mind utilizing the latest technology to defeat our enemies, such as advanced drones, Iron Man-like protective suits, stealth submarines and bombers? Or does it instead involve countering groups like the Islamic State, who espouse a toxic ideology, conducts warfare in a style that grossly violates accepted international norms, and beheads innocent people at will?

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Krauthammer: Yemen Will ‘Become an Ally of Iran’

Columnist Charles Krauthammer dubbed the evacuation of the US Embassy in Yemen “a devastating setback” because Yemen “is now going to become an ally of Iran” on Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. “What just happened in Yemen is,

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CNN’s Acosta: Obama Sounded Like a ‘Liberal Bumper Sticker’

Wednesday on CNN, White House correspondent Jim Acosta said today when President Barack Obama warned there will be no “‘endless war,”  he sounded like a “liberal bumper sticker.” Acosta said, “I think more notable than anything was the president’s acknowledgement

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When Winning Is the Only Thing

It was Vince Lombardi who famously intoned that “winning is not everything, it’s the only thing.” And he was just talking about football! Of course, more and more all the time we learn of the excesses that have accompanied that kind of zealotry in the world of sports, and even the great Lombardi is known to have been pretty cagey with the rules on occasion in pursuit of “the only thing,” but it’s not football that’s on my mind today, it’s war.

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Obama: ISIS is Going to Lose

Wednesday President Barack Obama asked Congress for formal authority to use the U.S. military force to fight ISIS. Transcript as follows: Good afternoon. Today as part of an international coalition in 60 nations, including Arab countries, our men and women

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Obama’s Fmr Ambassadors Criticize Afghanistan Withdrawal Plans

Fmr. Ambassadors to Afghanistan James Cunningham and Joe Crocker criticized the planned timetable for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday. Cunningham, who served as Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2012 to

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Speechless on Iranian Nukes

President Obama and his administration have implied that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s acceptance of an invitation to speak before Congress is a violation of protocol.

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Flashback: Obama Touts Yemen As Success Story

In an address on September 10, 2014, President Obama touted Yemen as a counterterrorism success story and said it would be the model for the US’ strategy against ISIS. “This counterterrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort

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U.S. Evacuates Yemen Embassy

The State Department is confirming it has closed the U.S. Embassy in Yemen and evacuated its staff because of the political crisis and security concerns following the takeover of much of the country by Shiite rebels.

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Former UN Chief Kofi Annan Blames US for Rise of ISIS

Kofi Annan, who served as secretary-general of the United Nations when the group overwhelmingly supported the 2003 U.S. war in Iraq, claimed at the Munich Security Conference that the United States is to blame for the creation of the Islamic State (ISIS).