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The Wall Street Journal reports that intelligence files recovered in Damascus after Assad’s fall reveal how Syria’s secret police built a society-wide informant system that drove brutal detentions, torture, and deaths, including cases where relatives and spouses were used [...]

"No need to be an expert marksman here. All you need is permission." The post The Mk-19 grenade launcher and how it helped shape the War on Terror appeared first on We Are The Mighty. --- Some weapons win firefights, and then [...]

The public, stakeholders and tribes are invited to comment on training, testing. --- The public, stakeholders and tribes are invited to comment on training, [...]

In response to concerns regarding potential Russian aggression in Europe in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, multiple NATO members in Europe are implementing voluntary military service programs, while others continue to have mandatory military service programs. According to [...]

If the fall of Maduro means one less outpost for Moscow in our hemisphere, I will not pretend to be conflicted about it, because I have seen what his patrons do to men whose only crime was fighting back. [...]

The full story of Operation Restore Hope, a Marine-led mission that began as famine relief and ended in the 1993 "Black Hawk Down" battle. The post Operation Restore Hope was much bigger than ‘Black Hawk Down’ appeared first on We [...]

The United States cannot bomb its way out of the cartel and trafficking crisis without shredding its own legal and moral credibility, and it is past time to replace confused, militarized strikes on alleged drug boats with a coherent [...]

There is no (confirmed) SOCOM system to autonomously select and engage targets without a human. The post What’s really real with SOCOM’s AI targeting tests right now appeared first on We Are The Mighty. --- U.S. Special Operations Command has been talking [...]

New emails show that a concerned community member in Bellingham, Washington, warned that the Afghan national charged with shooting two National Guard members near the White House in Washington, D.C., was not “functional as a person” long before last [...]

President Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday that he recently had a phone call with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The confirmation of the phone call comes after the president warned that the airspace around Venezuela should be considered “closed in its entirety.” [...]