Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 | Post a comment

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) transits the Strait of Hormuz, November 12, 2011.
Photo by: Reuters
Defense Department spokesman says U.S. Navy ‘committed to security and stability of region’; statement comes after Iran threatens retaliation against continued U.S. presence in Gulf.
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Friday, December 2nd, 2011 | 4 comments

Georgetown University’s Professor Phillip A. Karber spent the Cold War as a top strategist reporting directly to the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (The Washington Post
The Chinese have called it their “Underground Great Wall” — a vast network of tunnels designed to hide their country’s increasingly sophisticated missile and nuclear arsenal.
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Saturday, August 27th, 2011 | Post a comment

A Libyan rebel walks in the Bab Al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli, August 23, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Louafi Larbi
A research center near Tripoli has stocks of nuclear material that could be used to make a “dirty bomb,” a former senior U.N. inspector said on Wednesday, warning of possible looting during turmoil in Libya.
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Sunday, February 27th, 2011 | One comment

A North Korean soldier on the northern side of the truce village of Panmunjom looks south in the demilitarised zone that separates North Korea from South Korea in Paju, north of Seoul January 19, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Lee Jae-Won
North Korea will fire across a land border with South Korea if Seoul continues its anti-North psychological campaign, the North’s official media said on Sunday ahead of an annual, joint military drill between the United States and South Korea.
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