Air Force
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18 Years of War And Cuts Leaves Military In Shambles
The U.S. Military, still the worlds most powerful force, has been left in a shambles by the Obama administration thanks to the sequester agreement that was passed in the congress in 2011. As a result, while North Korea is ramping up for a Nuclear War with the U.S., our forces are in some areas down to…
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GOV’T WASTE: US Planes Worth $500M Sold For Scrap In Afghanistan – for only $32,000
A US watchdog is asking why 16 planes bought for the Afghan Air Force, costing almost $500 million, were turned into scrap metal valued at just $32,000. The government wants to know why hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money were wasted on the project. The military transport planes had been sitting at Kabul International Airport…
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OBAMA: ‘We Underestimated ISIS Threat’
Publicly announcing that US intelligence agencies “underestimated” the presence and activity of Islamic State militants in Syria, US President Barack Obama in an interview with CBS called the country a “ground zero” for international jihadists. “Over the past couple of years, during the chaos of the Syrian civil war, where essentially you have huge swaths…
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CIA estimates 20k-30k fighters in Syria, Iraq after Obama pledges to destroy ISIS
The Central Intelligence Agency believes the Islamic State militant group “can muster between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters” throughout both Iraq and Syria, CNN reports. If true, that would mean the Islamic State’s numbers have more than doubled compared to the agency’s last estimate, which pinned the group’s total amount of fighters at roughly 10,000. “This…
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[VIDEO] U.S. launches new airstrikes in western Iraq against ISIS
The U.S. has launched fresh airstrikes against the Islamic State militant group in an effort to keep the Haditha Dam in western Iraq from being captured by Islamic State militants. U.S. Central Command confirmed the airstrikes in a statement issued early Sunday, saying that five Humvees, an armed vehicle, and a checkpoint were destroyed. The…
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‘Reduce or stop it’: China vows to respond to US ‘close surveillance’ patrols
Beijing is calling on Washington to scale back, or cancel, aerial surveillance of the Chinese mainland, since such a practice represents a security risk and a deterrent to better bilateral relations – otherwise it is ready to take measures. Relations between China and the United States have been increasingly tense since the US shifted its…
