by Ivan / Borderland Beat There are only two inmates that everyone wants to kill: protected witnesses and child rapists, reveals a U.S. Marshal interviewed by the author. The list seems endless. All of them high-level members of the Sinaloa Cartel, who after having every imaginable luxury and in almost …

Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill in World War II wanted “specially trained troops of the hunter class, who can develop a reign of terror down these coasts [of occupied Europe], first of all on the butcher and bolt policy… leaving a trail of German corpses behind them.” This translated into …

The Pentagon released video of the first flight of high-threat illegal aliens as they arrive at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This group of prisoners had been held inside the United States. They arrived at “GTMO” on February 4. The Pentagon did not identify the prisoners, nor say where they …

A look back at operations in Now Zad, Afghanistan. No jokes, no talking, just business. The stern-faced Marines in the six-wheeled armored vehicle, known as the “Cougar,” listened intently to the chatter over the radio. “The Afghan army just got their first kill in combat,” said a Marine on the …

by Nikolay Shevchenko Back in the USSR, the KGB wrote a manual describing what a foreign spy would look like. Some of the characteristics were intriguing… In the midst of the Cold War, security services on both sides of the Iron Curtain had to stay vigilant and look out for …

by A.R. Fomenko “Arms smuggling is up, retribution is on the agenda, and people are jockeying for power in a presumed post-war environment:” ~Soldier of Fortune publisher Susan Katz Keating. VIENNA BUREAU – Who killed the Armenian warlord in Moscow, and why? Officials in Russia reported on Monday that Armen Sarkisyan, who …

Call it Thunder Ball. Soldiers with 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), perform a tactical movement during a simulated chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear attack as part of Thunder Ball exercise at Novo Selo Training Area, Bulgaria. This type of training uses high-stress scenarios to refine the tactical and technical skills …

by Hooligan I wasn’t sure the man was real. Was he a hunter? The hunted? Out there in the woods, I was starving and on the brink of hallucination, so it could have been Bigfoot himself, for all I knew. When a man gets desperate, the thought of a good …

Watch as this Apache helicopter takes to the sky. An AH-64E v6 Apache takes off and lands at Desiderio Army Airfield, at Camp Humphreys in South Korea. Props to Capt. Frank Spatt of the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade for the cool vid.

A six-legged robot dog developed by China has successfully completed a series of tests in Antarctica. This breakthrough makes it ideal for polar research, but it could have military applications too. Originally designed for scientific research, the robot has demonstrated its ability to move on ice, transport heavy loads and …