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Pentagon’s vaunted F-35 earns lousy review from test pilot in secret report

07/04/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
This undated photo provided by Northrop Grumman Corp., shows a pre-production model of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. (AP/NORTHROP GRUMMAN) How would the military’s new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft fare in a dogfight against an old F-16D fighter? Not…

DIA Director sees Iraq as ‘quagmire,’ but strikes term from testimony

06/17/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
EXCLUSIVE: One of President Obama’s top intelligence officers has privately concluded that the situation in Iraq is a “quagmire,” but struck the term from testimony being prepared for him to deliver on Capitol Hill, Fox News has learned. Internal documents…

US reportedly in talks on keeping restrictions on ‘Taliban Five’ as deal set to lapse

05/02/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
The Obama administration reportedly has launched talks with Qatari officials about potentially extending security measures for the five Taliban leaders who were traded a year ago for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, with the agreement governing their supervised release soon set to…

Beretta reveals new striker-fired pistol

03/04/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Beretta APX (Beretta) Beretta revealed its first full-size striker fired pistol, the Beretta APX, at the IDEX (International Defence Exhibition & Conference) in Abu Dhabi last week. The Beretta APX joins Beretta’s handgun lineup – folks that converged in Abu…

Murder in Pretoria? OJ detective says ‘Blade Runner’ evidence is overwhelming

02/21/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
Feb. 22, 2013: Olympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius , in court in Pretoria, South Africa, for his bail hearing charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Olympian Oscar Pistorius, known as ‘Blade Runner’ charged with killing model girlfriend…

Experts suggest Hamas overestimated Arab world support for strikes on Israel

11/19/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have drawn a more muted response from Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi than Hamas might have hoped for. (AP) If Hamas thought provoking an Israeli crackdown by raining rockets down on the Jewish state would rally Arab…

Secretary Panetta, Here Are 4 Smart Ways to Cut $6 Billion From the Defense Budget

10/27/2011 Published on Foxnews.com
The $400 billion Department of Defense budget decrease that President Obama handed Defense Secretary Gates as he was about to walk out the door was not received very well by even Gates. He had already taken a sizable chunk out…

Everyone Must Go, If We Want to Win In Afghanistan

06/29/2010 Published on Foxnews.com
Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and numerous other Democratic political leaders chastised General David Petraeus during his Iraq surge testimony in September 2007. A full-page placed by MoveOn.org in The New York Times labeled General Petraeus “General…