US intelligence failures

Recent events where the U.S. intelligence service seems to be screwing up are becoming frequent. Or at least there have been 2 large incidents involving Iran where possible and likely screw ups have occurred. The first recent event which occurred was the capture of the RQ-170 unmanned American spy plane on...

Dear Leader Kim Jong il dies, aged 69

Kim Jong-il has died at the age of 69 over a tenuous battle for his health. From what I’ve read he died of a heart attack and it has been on every or most front-page news websites, and naturally I’m very curious about the situation, or I’m following mostly what is to follow. According to...

Taiwanese military

Just dropping by to say that I have to join the Taiwanese military soon as a conscript seeing as it is a requirement as I recently became Taiwanese.  I'll be detailing my life in the military and if anyone wants any information pertaining to what equipement the Taiwanese use, although likely...

Riots in London, no protests

I usually wouldn’t write an article about this, but this has riled me up so much, I felt I needed to post something about this. These riots are happening close to home and they are actually moving closer to where I have a few relatives in the UK. So I felt, out of absence in maintaining this website,...

al Qaeda: Osama bin Laden dead & body in US hands

The WhiteHouse and in a press release by President Barack Obama has reported that Osama bin Laden is dead, in a blog post on the WhiteHouse website titled “Osama bin Laden Dead”. During the Bill Clinton years and his office term, Osama bin Laden has been on the FBI most wanted list for terrorist...

Ivory Coast – France arrests Gbagbo, conflict coming to an end?

In a report by the BBC¹, it has claimed that hundreds of innocents have been killed in the Ivory Coast. It asserted that at least 800 died to which they quoted the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The Ivory Coast is in turmoil after the 2010 elections in December which...

Debate: What about countries other than Libya?

The western forces & Qatar who have worked together to support a no-fly zone militarily and weapons embargo on Libya were put in place under a UN go ahead. The UN and its country-partners who voted in this legislation against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his forces loyal to him done so under...

HEADLINES: ‘Combined Joint Expeditionary Force’ Announced (British and French forces)

The announcement of a new united military force between the UK and French has seen a force of up to 6,500 servicemen involved in a multi-national defence deal between both countries. French special forces, French Marines are to be involved in this deal as well as its UK counterparts such as the Royal...

Adding community features to our main website

We are adding new community features to our main website which viewers of this site will soon find out about. Features such as personalised user pages where you can add your own avatar or upload up to 10 images which are your favourite can be saved and hosted on this website. Take my profile as an example or...

Namer (IFV)

The Israeli ‘Namer’ is a heavily armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) which has been in service since 2008. The hull is based from the Merkava Mk. IV; thus making this vehicle heavily armoured due to the amount of protection this 60 tonne vehicle carries. The vehicle was developed by Israeli...