Tag: Military

Jim W. Dean - If Trump keeps this "rule by executive order" binge going, he could become the most sued president in history during their first 100 days.

US President Donald Trump’s threats of a military or trade war with China are just and “act” and part of his “negotiation” process, says...

Syrian state news agency SANA says Israeli jets have bombed the Mezzeh military airport west of Damascus, accusing Tel Aviv of supporting terrorism.

Jim W. Dean - The focus now is the black box comment on the cockpit tape of a flap problem, but where it is acknowledged could still be a sabotage issue.

by Valentin Vasilescu for VT If the military policy of the Trump administration is foreseeable in the fight against the Islamists and the deployment of...

A Syrian military source has said Israeli rockets hit an air base near Damascus. No casualties have been reported, however. Reuters reports the Israeli rockets...

American democracy is already on life support. A coup against Trump would put it out of its misery.

The Russian Defense Ministry has addressed the UN body devoted to monitoring the use of chemical weapons, asking it to send a mission to...

Jim W. Dean - This is all a dangerous game, all the more so because the US would probably do a cyber attack on itself, with more than a little damage, to assure public support for a major cyber counter attack.

Obesity in the US military has become an issue following a 73% spike in the number of overweight service members in just five years....

A mechanized infantry unit of the Russian Southern Military Command has arrived in Pakistan to take part in the first ever joint military drills dubbed Friendship-2016, the Southern Military Command’s press service told journalist on Friday.

Jim W. Dean - We see Turkey taking advantage of the ceasefire chaos in Syria to concentrate on its wish list, pushing the Kurds away from the border areas and establishing a VERY deep buffer zone, and a defacto occupation of Syrian territory.

Jim W. Dean - Gordon gives us another one of his classic retrospectives, a short synopsis of what happened back then and why it matters now, as few can do. It is easier to do when you have been there and done the heavy lifting.

An Italian military delegation has traveled to Iran to discuss the enhancement of bilateral military ties, and has invited Iranian naval groups to visit Italy’s territorial waters.

Throughout the week, the city of Boston has been hosting Homeland Security training exercises that include helicopters flying extremely close to buildings, but police...

Jim W. Dean - The rational way to handle this some kind of sharing program on the natural resources. But China, with its huge population is not about to end up on the short end of the stick.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has lashed out at NATO, saying the alliance is not fully cooperating with Ankara. In an interview with Sputnik,...

The Syrian and Russian fighter jets conducted 200 airstrikes against the military positions and gathering centers of the terrorist groups in the Southwestern part of Aleppo over past 24 hours.

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/08/10/when-militia-turns-into-army-iranian-control-of-iraqs-shiite-hashd-militia-will-lead-to-annexation/ Iran-backed Shiite fighters in Iraq now number up to 100,000 fighters, the first-known estimate of their size, according to the US military. It was...

Jim W. Dean - The US is definitely in the cross hairs and the thinly veiled accusations are increasing, with this past week's Turkish claim of not only CIA but FBI "assistance and training" with some of the coup plotters close to the Gulen group.

  The Pentagon says a US military aircraft has had an emergency landing in a Russian airstrip near the Chinese border because of landing gear...

Jim W. Dean - It looks like the military will take the lead now on punishing its own, taking the political bite out of it somewhat for Erdogan. And the civilian courts will be busy for years with the big sweep they are doing.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Media reports emerged that an uncovered plot forced the faction to move the coup's date — initially it had been planned to be carried...

After the United States signed a military memorandum of understanding with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) last week, some Iraqi MPs have considered the move a violation of the sovereignty of Iraq and have asked the Iraqi government to take a stance against the deal.

“Turkish Armed Forces have completely taken over the administration of the country to reinstate constitutional order, human rights and freedoms, the rule of law and the general security that was damaged,” the military said in a statement.

On Monday, Turkish media reported that Ankara might allow Russia to use the Incirlik Airbase for the common fight against Daesh. The Turkish Foreign...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A huge cargo vessel of Russia, carrying a large volume of arms, ammunition and other advanced types of military equipment for the...

By Josh Rogin June 30 The Obama administration has proposed a new agreement on Syria to the Russian government that would deepen military cooperation between...

"I order to act very tough. Any targets that threaten Russian forces or our infrastructure on the ground should be immediately destroyed," Putin told a session of the Defense Ministry’s collegium.

Lebanon asked Russia to help the armed forces of the country to combat terrorism. The Lebanese army shows daily resistance to the onslaught of Islamic State and Jabhat en-Nusra terrorists (the organization are banned in Russia), Minister of Finance of the Republic of Lebanon, Ali Khalil, said during a meeting with Chairman of the Federation Council's Committee for International Affairs, Konstantin Kosachev.

Russia plans to expose the catalogue of near-Earth objects, a member of the Russian delegation at the 59th session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes, Victor Shilin said.

A senior Syrian military expert said Washington is trying to save the Takfiri terrorists in Raqqa province by delaying the Kurdish forces' military operations against the terrorist groups there.

Jim W. Dean - This is a good article to read not because of its validity, but because it is a window into the NeoCon strategy of pumping the US military up to Cold War levels when it is vastly superior to anything out there.

A US Navy commander, who worked with a top-secret spy plane being purchased by the UK, went on trial on Tuesday accused of espionage – yet the British military tells RT it has no idea whether the P-8A Poseidon aircraft has been compromised.

Most Salafi rebels fighting in Syria are Afghan nationals infiltrating Syria via the borders with Iraq, a senior Syrian military source revealed on Saturday.

In recent years the Ukrainian military-industrial complex has cranked out a number of bizarre-looking contraptions in an apparent attempt to turn the tide of the ongoing conflict in the country’s southeastern regions.

Russian military forces deployed to Syria reportedly fired upon Israeli aircraft on at least two occasions over the past six months leading to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeking to enhance coordination mechanisms.

Russia says US fully complicit