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The Krag-Jorgensen rifle was the first smokeless rifle officially used by the US Army. It is a five-shot bolt-action rifle that was first adopted in 1892 and was made obsolete by the famous Model 1903 Springfield. The Krag saw use ...

A covert US military training exercise called Operation Jade Helm 15 could be a threat to the rights of the citizens of Texas, the Lone Star State’s governor has concluded. Republican Greg Abbott is so worried about Jade Helm that ...

If you’ve been in the field on maneuvers with the Army, been in combat or even been around the survival community for a while, you’ve probably heard about MREs. MREs are the Army’s current version of combat rations, which the ...

When you read a headline, “Army quits tests after competing rifle outperform M4A1 carbine,” you might think that the Army took a cloak and dagger approach to canceling the tests simply because a rifle outperformed the M4. Let’s take a ...

The United States could field a force of real life terminators or killer robots in the near future. U.S Army generals are seriously considering replacing thousands of GIs with robots as the number of active duty troops and military budgets ...

Judging from one briefing at Fort Hood in Texas, the Army’s leaders consider evangelical Christians and Tea Party members greater threats to America than radical Muslims. Soldiers at a pre-deployment briefing on Oct. 17 were told for nearly half an ...

The so-called fiscal crisis in Washington is nothing but politics. Even though Congress and President Obama claim that the country is out of money, politicians on both sides of the aisle seem to be able to come up with money ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A recently published survey that was conducted internally in the Army in 2011 shows that only 26 percent of active-duty Army officers believe the Army is headed in the right direction. Many of those surveyed identified “political ...

China’s government has announced that it will increase its defense spending by 11.2 percent in 2012. This is actually slightly less than last year’s increase, which was above 12 percent, but it is the eighteenth time over the past two ...