If you want further proof of where Pentagon weapon spending is likely to head, check out the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assesments latest publication, Outside-In, Operating from Range to Defeat Iran’s Anti-Access and Area-Denial Threats. The document, a concept for how the Defense Deparment can counter Iran’s increasingly sophisticated efforts to feild weapons that […]
Door Kickers
Rogue states with nascent nuclear weapon programs (cough, Iran, cough), consider yourselves on notice. The Air Force has started taking delivery of Massive Ordnance Penetrators. Yup, the 30,000-pound bunker busters, known as MOPs, designed to penetrate 30 stories of reinforced concrete. (Oh, and the massive bomb’s name is almost as charged as the term, Pre-Dawn […]
Happy 236th birthday, Marines! Above you’ll the see the official Marine Corps birthday video. Click through the jump to watch two more video tributes to the Corps’ that I like better. Be sure to turn the sound up on the first one at the 1:45 mark — just make sure you’re wearing headphones if you’re […]
Now that Gadhafi has been eliminated we thought we’d take a look back at NATO’s military campaign to support the Libyan rebels. As of this writing, NATO has conducted a total of 26,089 sorties, including 9,618 strike sorties against Gadhafi’s forces since March 31. Just yesterday, NATO jets conducted 16 strike missions and flew a total of […]
Well, the President is sending about 100 “combat equipped” U.S. troops to Uganda to help local government forces hunt down and ‘remove’ Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army. The LRA is a rebel group that has terrorized the African countryside for years, murdering, raping and kidnapping thousands of civilians. Like countless other […]
