Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta released the Pentagon’s new defense strategic guidance, and President Barack Obama delivered a speech on his new strategy, which plans to cut tens of thousands of ground troops and “reduce our overall capacity.” Why
The forthcoming defense cuts, as laid out in the new DoD strategic document Sustaining Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense, calls for severe cuts in particular areas. The nuclear stockpile will be reduced and there will be a reduction
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Leaner U.S. military will focus on threats from Iran and China Europe announces oil embargo on Iran starting January 30 U.S. and Israel to stage largest ever joint military drill Iran: U.S. is deploying
Fresh off his impressive finish in the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday, Rick Santorum criticized Obama’s foreign policy with some of the harshest words we’ve heard this entire campaign season: You could certainly go down the route that he’s intentionally trying
A spate of attacks against Shiite pilgrims and neighbourhoods in Iraq killed at least 53 people on Thursday as the country grapples with a weeks-long political row that has stoked sectarian tensions. The violence, which wounded more than 100, was
From today’s speech by President Barack Obama on the Defense Strategic Review: Some will no doubt say that the spending reductions are too big; others will say that they’re too small. It will be easy to take issue with a
Heard an interesting talk this week by Austin Ruse, who, heading up a Catholic NGO at the United Nations, is on a professional and vocational quest to prevent the UN, in its various documents and legal instruments, both non-binding and
Mark Theissen opens today’s show with his analysis of how the Obama Administration is inviting the next attack on American soil. The defense cuts caused by the Super Committee’s failure will leave America open to another attack that could be
While many Americans have become enthralled over the current GOP race, very few realize that our very freedoms have recently been seriously diminished and marginalized. Hopefully, everyone celebrated this past New Year with sincere freedom of expression because as of
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Israelis shocked by ultra-Orthodox children dressed as Nazi Holocaust victims China’s aggressive military buildup forces U.S. change of strategy China plans military base in Northern Pakistan Britain and US to scale down military capability
Bill Gertz of the Washington Times reports that President Barack Obama has indicated he is prepared to convey information about secret American missile defense technology to Russia: In the president’s signing statement issued Saturday in passing into law the fiscal
From Army Times: The National Guard Bureau’s top officer is now a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A provision in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, signed into law Dec. 31 by President Obama, adds the Guard leader
The New York Times has an insightful piece up on Congress’s coming military cuts. What the authors most highlight is that America’s military will have a newer role in the coming decade. That point is evident from the proposed cuts
From the Stonegate Institute: At year end, 2011, as Americans emptied their wallets at the gas pump and crude oil reached almost $100 a barrel, OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia reported an $81.6 billion 2011 budget surplus. The White House action
Big Government has learned that Corporal Jesse Thorsen, 28, who promoted presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) while in uniform during yesterday’s Iowa caucuses, is being probed by his Army Reserve unit for violation of Department of Defense Regulations. Members
It’s nearly impossible to forget the mantra leading up to Bill Clinton’s election as president in 1992: “It’s the economy, stupid.” The endless recitation of this phrase allowed Clinton’s campaign, and the Clinton sycophants in the media, to keep attention
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Israel says that Assad ‘only has weeks’ to rule Syria Israeli and Palestinian envoys meet, promise to meet again Europe: Another year older and deeper in debt Greece issues blunt warning that it will
Let’s be blunt. The Islamic Republic of Iran is and has always been the major problem and danger in the Middle East and internationally. President Barack Hussein Obama and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, have pursued, at best, a
The U.S. Army expects to be putting battle-ready smartphones into the hands of soldiers by the middle of 2012. It’s a secure version of the Android operating system. The National Security Agency (NSA) needs to first certify that the communication
Reuters reported earlier this morning that Iran will take action against the United States if one of our own aircraft carriers moves into the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet has made home in the tiny state of
(Reuters) – A young man dressed as “Father Frost” – the Russian equivalent of Father Christmas – was stabbed to death in Tajikistan on Monday in an attack police believe was motivated by religious hatred, two police sources said. A
From the Tehran Times: TEHRAN – The commander of Iran’s Armed Forces has advised a U.S. aircraft carrier, which left the Persian Gulf because of Iran’s naval war games, not to return to the sea, saying otherwise Iran will take
There’s a new hit on Youtube that tells you more about the mood in Europe than anything you can read in the newspaper or read online. It’s a German video clip (below) which is a spoof of a 1963 comedy
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Iran tests new missiles in Persian Gulf Iran’s actions raise alarms in Gulf nations Iran and the West are ‘playing with fire’ as mutual threats mount Obama signs defense bill with indefinite detention provision
Finally, some honesty. LONDON (AP) – Prime Minister David Cameron issued a blunt message to Britons on Monday, saying that though the Summer Olympics and the queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebration will raise the country’s profile 2012 will still be a
