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Archive for category News
Brownells November Super Selections
Posted by Brian in Accessories, Ammo, Magazines, Maintenance, News, Warrior Tools on 17/Nov/2011 23:21
Click here for November specials from Brownells.
Fox Company, 2-506 Parachute Infantry Regiment, on patrol in Baqer Kheyl, Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 17/Nov/2011 20:59
U.S. Forces Kill 70 Taliban, Lose No One In Huge Outpost Battle
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 17/Nov/2011 20:57
“Twice in the span of a month, the Taliban has unleashed human waves on one of the U.S. Army’s most isolated Afghan outposts. Twice, the American soldiers guarding the tiny fort have beat back the attackers, killing scores of extremists while suffering no losses of their own.
The U.S. troops’ skill, and luck, have been remarkable. They’re going to need both, as more large-scale attacks seem likely.
…Once the shooting starts, the Taliban know they probably have only a few minutes before the Apache helicopters and Air Force jet fighters arrive overhead and unleash Hell.”
5.56 Green Tip Ammo Specials! Limited Supply!
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What is China Building in the Desert?
Posted by Gary in News, Threat Watch on 15/Nov/2011 15:26
From: Danger Room
The internet lost its collective mind earlier this week, when a Reddit user stumbled across “what appears to be a monumental military/science experiment going on in a Chinese desert, visible on Google Earth.†But the strange and massive box of jagged lines wasn’t the only odd structure carved into the ground — and this week’s swarm of Google-spotters weren’t the first ones to take an interest in the region.
As former CIA analyst Allen Thomson notes, turning on the DigitalGlobe coverage layer in Google Earth shows all the various times the imaging satellite has been asked to inspect that part of the desert. (Here’s a screenshot, above.) “Starting in 2004, somebody has ordered many, many satellite pictures of it,†Thomson tells Danger Room. “Can’t have been cheap.â€
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U.S. Hiring Mercenary Air Force for Iraq Rescues
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 14/Nov/2011 11:36
By Spencer Ackerman
“It’s January 2012. A convoy of SUVs ferrying American diplomats to a meeting with Iraqi politicians runs over a roadside bomb. Several of the passengers inside are seriously injured. They need to be rescued, now.
But the U.S. military left Iraq on Dec. 31. Which means the only call for help has to go to a team of mercenaries employed by the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. They’re the only guys left in Iraq who are running medical evacuation operations — or any other complex air op.
Air operations are not as simple has hiring skilled pilots to put well-maintained machines in the skies. The military has long-standing procedures in place for designing and executing aerial missions. An experienced chain of command maintains order, discipline, coordination and success. This is what the military does.
It’s not what the State Department does.”
300BLK Wins USPSA National Multigun
Posted by Brian in Ammo, Matches and Competitions, News on 14/Nov/2011 08:52
From the GearScout blog:
The win for 300BLK is significant because it shows a use for the round outside of clearing rooms in unfriendly nations. 300BLK allows shooting sports competitors to use the lightweight and ubiquitous AR platform to compete effectively against heavier, higher caliber guns.
Special Operations In Afghanistan
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 13/Nov/2011 11:06
From USA Today:
In Afghanistan, commanders say, Special Forces have become an indispensable component of a strategy that involves killing the enemy in places where no one else can, and acting as ambassadors, protectors and instructors to Afghans who have expressed a desire to free themselves of militants and overlords.
Afghan Soldier Attacks Australian Troops
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 12/Nov/2011 14:56
From The New York Times:
Australian troops on a training mission in southern Afghanistan were attacked Tuesday by one of the Afghan soldiers they were training, officials said Wednesday.
Mexico: Deportations From U.S. Fuels Violence
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 12/Nov/2011 14:17
From NPR:
Published: October 20, 2011
by The Associated Press
Mexican President Felipe Calderon accused the United States on Thursday of dumping criminals at the border because it is cheaper than prosecuting them, and said the practice has fueled violence in Mexico’s border areas.
U.S. officials earlier this week reported a record number of deportations in fiscal year 2011, and said the number of deportees with criminal convictions had nearly doubled since 2008.
“There are many factors in the violence that is being experienced in some Mexican border cities, but one of those is that the American authorities have gotten into the habit of simply deporting 60 (thousand) or 70,000 migrants per year to cities like Ciudad Juarez or Tijuana,” Calderon told an immigration conference.
Among these deportees “there are many who really are criminals, who have committed some crime and it is simply cheaper to leave them on the Mexican side of the border than to prosecute them, as they should do, to see whether they are guilty or not,” Calderon said. “And obviously, they quickly link up with criminal networks on the border.”
On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton said his agency deported nearly 400,000 individuals during the fiscal year that ended in September, the largest number of removals in the agency’s history.
U.N. Report On Iran
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 12/Nov/2011 08:11
From The New York Times:
The report, buttressed by evidence not previously disclosed, concluded that Iran had been secretly engaged in behaviors that suggested that it was seeking to construct a nuclear weapon. The report also asserted that Iran might be researching ways to deliver a nuclear weapon by means of a missile warhead. It was the first time that the agency, an arm of the United Nations, had made such assertions.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran led the verbal assault on the report, saying it had been orchestrated by Iran’s enemies, principally the United States, which he said had dictated the report’s findings.
Pentagon’s New China Plan
From The Washington Times:
The plan calls for preparing the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps to defeat China’s “anti-access, area denial weapons,†including anti-satellite weapons, cyberweapons, submarines, stealth aircraft and long-range missiles that can hit aircraft carriers at sea.
Taliban Killed In Small Battle
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 11/Nov/2011 15:17
From The Washington Post:
The fighting lasted less than two hours, ending by about 8:30Â p.m. No U.S. troops were killed. A spokesman for the Paktika governor said that 50 to 60 insurgents were killed.
The U.S. outpost has become a favorite target for Haqqani network insurgents based in Pakistan, who exploit the porous border to attack Americans. It was at least the third major attack on the base in a little more than a year.
Panetta Warns Of Defense Cuts
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 11/Nov/2011 14:54
From National Journal:
He went even further on Thursday, using arguably the strongest rhetorical weapon in his arsenal. Mandatory defense cuts, he warned, would weaken the armed forces to the point that enemies would be emboldened to attack the U.S.
“In effect, it invites aggression,” Panetta said during the new conference, just his second since taking office in July.
Michelle Obama: 100K vets will be hired by 2014
From: Marine Times
Michelle Obama said the new efforts are “part of a wave of support forming that stretches across this country.â€
She spoke at a conference on hiring veterans that was organized by the Chamber.
The group has had a prickly relationship with the Obama White House, differing over policies on job creation, taxes and regulation. The first lady got a polite but reserved reception from the audience in the partially filled auditorium.