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A Needed Break
I’ve been wrangling with a question that has crossed my mind a few times but has been weighing on me rather heavily recently – should I close the blog? It’s a question that has been hitting me harder as comments have slowed to a trickle and there has been a shift away from opinion blogs and it is honestly one of the tougher questions I’ve dealt with recently. This blog has taken on something that I never thought it would and as result it has found its way into a lot of my life. I am very proud of this blog as it shows...
read moreGoodbye HTC – Hello Samsung!
Well I’ve kicked HTC to the curb after owning one of their smart phones for nearly 2 years. Before I got my HTC Thunderbolt I was desperate for it because it was not the iPhone and was being touted as the best Android at the time; it wasn’t. I still love my Thunderbolt but it’s a love that someone has only after mastering its failures and beating the device at its own game. I beat its terrible battery life, I beat Verizon’s lack of updates and I beat Android Froyo but it took a lot of effort and I frankly couldn’t be happier that...
read moreThe Future of Sniping can be Found in Texas
While attending an event at SXSW I was able to see quite a few developments in the area of technology. What I expected to see were things like the xi3 modular computer that is roughly the size of a Coke can but what I wasn’t expecting to see was something that I had just read about in Gun World magazine. TrackingPoint had a very busy booth at this event and it was easy to see why – they had guns and what looked like a video game to play. That “video game” was actually a simulation of what their scope and rifle platform is capable...
read moreUnited Kingdom’s Military Cuts put NATO at Risk
The last two Secretaries of Defense have warned that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is at risk of becoming ineffective and that more budget cuts will further put the alliance in jeopardy of failing. When NATO was formed in 1949 its success relied upon the United States’ military might to counter that of the USSR and without the Americans the alliance would fail yet now decades after the wall has fallen, the alliance has failed to adapt to the threats of today. The United States can no longer be the main provider of force and...
read moreChinese Army Tied Directly to Most U.S. Hackings
In 2011 the United States made acts of hacking linked directly to a nation an act of war. It was part of a 30 page strategy to deal with cyber threats but the officials stressed that not all hacks would lead to war. For an attempt to constitute an act of war it would have to threaten lives, commerce, infrastructure or worse. Oddly though most of the attacks coming out of China have targeted American companies with an emphasis on the defense industry and it can be argued successfully that that affects commerce yet for the most part the White...
read moreThe U.S. Nuclear Shield isn’t enough for Japan and South Korea
Roughly 70,000 troops are split between South Korea and Japan remnants of wars past and along with those troops came part of the American nuclear arsenal. Non-nuclear weapons capable allies of the United States are often brought into the “nuclear shield” which ensures that if that nation is attacked with nuclear weapons the United States will respond in kind in defense of her ally. It’s a strong statement that almost guarantee’s no one will attack those nation’s with said weapons because few possess the arsenal that the United States...
read moreNorth Korea is Quickly Alienating China
North Korea has always been quite brazen compared to other rogue states but China has always stood by the stubborn little nation in defiance of Western powers and at times the world however North Korea’s recent actions are receiving less fanfare in China. For the second time in just a few months China has actively condemned North Korea’s actions. In December their condemnation, and agreement to go along with sanctions, came after a North Korean missile test and now this week after North Korea tested their third nuclear weapon. It signals...
read moreThe Loss of an American Hero
Former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle was murdered on Saturday by a fellow veteran whom Chris and a friend were helping work through symptoms of PTSD at a shooting range near Dallas, Texas. Chris Kyle is well known as the deadliest sniper in American military history with over 150 confirmed kills but he was lesser known for his work helping veterans through his charity FITCO Cares which donates home workout equipment to emotionally and physically wounded veterans. Kyle served in every major battle of the Iraq war and was so effective that the Iraqi...
read moreWill the Secretary of Defense nominee reverse Bush era position on gun lawsuits?
An article written by Slate’s Sam Kleiner has pointed out a little known alliance between the Department of Defense and the National Rifle Association that came to be during the Bush Administration and helped ensure the passage of a law that made it impossible for people to sue gun manufacturers. The article pointed out that the new Secretary of Defense, if confirmed, could end the relationship and help further the Obama administrations gun control agenda. The article itself is merely a not so subtle push to get Senators on Chuck...
read moreNorth Korea Reaches New Levels of Stupidity
North Korea can barely feed a quarter of its people yet its pudgy leader is continuing the tradition of unimaginable military spending in order to appear bigger than they are. North Korea announced that it is planning another nuclear test as well as more long range missile attempts. The announcement comes fresh on the heels of a UN resolution that was passed on Tuesday that was in response to North Korea’s last missile attempt in December, not their discovery of a unicorn layer, and the resolution tightened the sanctions on the nation that...
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