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Special Air Service Selection and Training

  The Special Air Service, the SAS, the Sass, the Regiment or the 22nd; call them what you will, but the 22nd Special Air Service
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[Blog] What is Armed Forces Day?

The first Armed Forces Day is 27 June 2009, and is an opportunity for the nation to show our support for the men and women ...
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[Blog] Special Forces Chinooks Fiasco

 newly issued official report condemns the series of delays in procuring Chinook HC3 helicopters for RAF Special Forces...  ...
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[Blog] Royal Marines Intercept Pirates

A Royal Marines boarding party from HMS Portland has intercepted 2 skiffs loaded with armed pirates in the Gulf Of Aden...   ...
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[Blog] We get the chance to test out the pride of the Army.. the Challenger 2 tank

IT'S every wee boy's dream come true - the chance to run around in their very own 61-ton tank.And the men and women of the Royal ...
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[Blog] Is America ready for a UAV bomber?

In the wake of the August 2007 incident in which six air-launched cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads were mistakenly flown from Minot Air Force ...
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[Blog] Why Gates is wrong

A year ago, Defense Secretary Robert Gates addressed a Heritage Foundation audience on the future requirements of the U.S. military. “Despite my job description,” Gates ...
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[Blog] Dealing with Terrorist Threats

Courtesy of Homeland Security Watch, I found this RAND report to be pretty interesting stuff. It discusses "Emerging Threats and Security Planning: How Should We ...
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[Blog] Iranian Crowd Control

I saw this picture at the British Sunday Times - I think it is an Iranian policeman using pepper spray against a demonstrator. This BBC ...
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[Blog] Homeland Security Is Not Statistics Driven

The NY Times has an interesting op-ed from Dr. Lawrence Wein, a professor of management at Stanford University. It's a good example of why we ...
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Michigan weapons company Trijicon takes flak for rifle scopes with Bible verse

A Michigan weapons company is under fire for branding thousands of rifle scopes used by U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan with passages from the
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Britain bans Islamist group at centre of march row

Britain will outlaw an Islamist group that provoked anger with a plan to march through a town where British troops killed in Afghanistan are honored, the interior minister announced Tuesday.
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The danger of hired guns

Private security contractors are set to make up half of the military presence in Afghanistan, but has the US lost control of them?
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Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes (Updated)

Tapping into drones’ video feeds was just the start. The U.S. military’s primary system for bringing overhead surveillance down to soldiers and Marines on the
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The fallacies of military intervention: Obama on Afghanistan and Vietnam

Yet this argument [the similarity of Vietnam to Afghanistan] depends on a false reading of history.” President Barack Obama
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Afghanistan Hub Gets Half-Billion-Dollar Facelift

Southern Afghanistan is the initial focus of the military’s rapid, six-month troop buildup. And in recent months, Kandahar Airfield, the main logistics hub in southern
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All Blacks to mark Remembrance Sunday with poppy

The All Blacks will mark Remembrance Sunday this weekend by wearing red poppies embroidered on their jerseys for the Test match against Wales at Millennium
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Airbags vs Rocket-Propelled Grenades

Airbags have saved countless lives over the years in car crashes. Now they’re set to save lives in another way: by stopping rocket propelled grenades.
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China’s Unmanned, Knock-Off Air Force

America’s robotic air force gets all the attention — especially with U.S. drones continuing to blast suspected militants in Pakistan. But China is developing its
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Darpa Spy Cams to Find Threats in ‘Weak Evidence’

The military’s got spy drones and surveillance cameras all over Afghanistan, and they’re looking to add even more. But the heaps of footage are already
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