A suspected Taliban bomber has killed 12 and wounded at least 61 in Lahore Pakistan this week. The bombing was symbolic in that a police station where high value Taliban prisoners were interrogated was bombed. The bombing was obviously in retaliation to the recent Pakistan offensive against the Taliban in that country. The Pakistanis have recently [...]
The Iranians have made another announcement about a new weapon in their growing arsenal. They say that they are now producing cruise missiles. For those of you who are not familiar the cruise missile is highly accurate and effective. It flies at subsonic (slower than sound) speeds and can be guided in a variety of [...]
You don’t have to wonder about this piece of military equipment. The name says it all. The military dosen’t tell a whole lot about this weapon but I will tell you the little bit that I know. The SLAM is a subsonic,over the horizon, all weather, standoff, cruise missile. You military ring customers are familiar [...]
A Somali pirate was shot and killed during an exchange off of the coast of Africa recently when his gang conducted intimidating maneuvers in order to get the ship to stop so that they could take control. The pirates exchanged gunfire with the private guards aboard the ship which resulted in the death of one [...]
The United States has information that the Iranians are training Taliban fighters inside of Iran. Now before I write more let me be fair. It is not necessarily the government of Iran training the terrorists although I can’t see how they wouldn’t at least know what is going on. I am not at all surprised by [...]
The latest bad news from Afghanistan is that six Americans have been executed by Taliban militants. To be honest the news account that I read was suspiciously short on details so there may have been some degree of truth to the accusations. Why were Americans is a position that they could be kidnapped? Six Americans. [...]
The controversy continues on whether terror suspects should be given a trial by the US justice system or tried in a military tribunal when captured. I don’t know all of the ins and outs about the situation but I think that terror suspects should be treated as prisoners of war and tried accordingly. My opinion [...]
The European Union is planning to train and equip the Somali Army beginning in May with about 2,000 Somali soldiers. They are seeking to get some help from the United States but I say let them handle it. Just like they choose to let us handle every other military situation that occurs in the world. [...]
Muhammad Iqbal who was a leading supplier of suicide vests and explosives in Afghanistan was recently killed in a gunfight with soldiers. The account of the incident that I read didn’t give many details some things that it does not say is with how many soldiers and which country (counyries) they are from This is a glorious [...]
Boeing is trying to get ahead of the game on UAV’s (unmanned aerial vehicles) in the future with the Phantom Ray project. This is a project which attempts to anticipate future needs for unmanned aerial vehicles in the future. Boeing is in essence anticipating the future needs of the military in this area to be [...]
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