Seoul to equip ships to intercept NKorea missiles: report

""We plan to equip the King Sejong, an Aegis destroyer launched last year, and two more Aegis destroyers, soon to be built, with SM-6 missiles that can intercept North Korean ballistic missiles," the source said.The US-developed Aegis combat system has cutting-edge radar and...

The Gulf of Tonkin and the Strait of Hormuz

"An Ominous Non-Event The Gulf of Tonkin and the Strait of Hormuz By ROBERT FANTINA As the U.S. government continues to demonstrate its inability to learn from history, an alarming report from the Strait of Hormuz was broadcast to the world on January 7. The Associated Press...

Japan intercepts missile in milestone test

"The $55 million test was a "major milestone" in growing U.S.-Japanese cooperation, said Rear Adm. Katsutoshi Kawano of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and Lt. General Henry Obering, head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency.U.S.-Japanese missile-defense ties have...

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US Navy strikes al-Qaeda suspect in Somalia | | The Australian

The U.S. took action against a target in Somalia which brings America back to conflict in Africa.  The mark was reported to be an operative for an African unit of Al-Queda wanted in conection for the bombing of two U.S. embassies.  The U.S. Navy has as of the time...

Brahma the Hindu god: A myth or an infallible truth?

"Brahma is that attribute of God Almighty which resulted in the creation of the Cosmos. Brahma is the Creative power of the Cosmos in Hinduism. Brahma is one of the three attributes of God Almighty. The two other attributes being the maintainer (god Vishnu) and the destroyer...

Planet Earth - just a dot in space

"... Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions,...

Miller Shot Down About Six Japanese Aircraft At Pearl Harbor

"During the assault, U.S. Navy messman Doris (Dorie) Miller helped move his mortally wounded commander to shelter, then manned a machine gun on the USS Arizona and shot down about six of the Japanese aircraft. This was a particularly notable accomplishment, since combat...

September 1941 -- U.S. attacking German submarines

Some American sailors were actually seeing action a few weeks before Pearl Harbor. And BEFORE September 1941, there was a very small number of American civilians, who resided in Britain and Germany, who had already volunteered to work or fight, for the country where they...

Those People Who Lived A Long Way From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

"when I heard about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It was a Sunday evening and I was shocked. I was 27 years old and working at the Flannery in Bridgeville / The best thing that happened to me during the war years was that I met Stella Cherosky in church and we got married on...