I think the answer is maybe. The Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper, recently testified and said that Al-Qaeda in Iraq is moving into Syria. They have long used Syria as a place where they could transfer suicide bombers from around the Middle East,...
Cool build Stik, I find it interesting that the Soviets used so many wheeled vehicles after the Second WW. Wonder what took us so long to roll on rubber vss tracked vehicles. Survivability & mobility. Wheeled armored fighting vehicles don't have the cross country capability that tracked vehicle...
About a mile from Gatlinburg off Cherokee Orchard Road is the long forgotten hideaway of a man named Louis E. Voorheis. He purchased the 38 acre piece of land in June 1928 for $8,000. Wanting an oasis in the wilderness away from his busy life as an entrepreneur and socialite, he used...
Even Qatar owned al-Jazeera, which was so vilified during the early stages of the Afghan War that it had its Kabul offices bombed by the U.S., did not have to register under FARA, was permitted to operate freely, and was even allowed to buy a television channel license for its America...
but breitbart is one of the people who rams those points into the popular consciousness. until last september, the beefy 41-year-old with graying blond hair was a largely covert power in the right-wing media, the hidden hand behind the popular drudge report who also, weirdly, cofounded ...
National security advisor Jack Sullivan, on the eve of the October 7 Hamas massacres of Jewish citizens, claimed the Middle East was at last calm. Now it is on the verge of a theater-wide war, once Iran sensed that the Biden team would appease and beg it to behave. ...
A back-of-an-envelope calculation indicates I have performed ultrasound scans on about 40,000 people in a 33 year-long radiology career. This would be a decent gate for a sporting event and enough material to have seen most things ultrasound can reveal. I did at least two ultrasound lists...
At the same time, no matter how much Western leaders may dislike the term, “moral equivalence” between Russian invasion and past U.S. interventions is being drawn. To cite Amin Saikal, an Afghan-Australian scholar and a leading authority on Middle East: in invading Ukraine, “President Vlad...
The weapon's effectiveness was demonstrated back in the mid-1980s, when Afghan resistance forces used Stinger missiles given to them by the CIA to shoot down Soviet helicopters. Some experts credit Stingers with having altered the course of that conflict, and being a significant factor in the ...
“Afghan forces, for a long period of time, have had problems with morale and also their willingness to fight the Taliban,” he said. “The Taliban can paint themselves as those who are resisting and fighting occupation, which is something that is kind of near and dear to what it ...