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The Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system destroyed a mock intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific last Tuesday.  The test revealed the efficacy of a new hit-to-kill vehicle meant to protect the United States against ballistic missile threats. The interception of the mock ICBM fired from Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands validated the performance of the GMD interceptor missile which was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.  The test was necessary to move forward with US plans to add eight more interceptors to the inventory by the end of 2017, bringing the total to...

Obama’s National Security Agency (NSA) routinely collected communications of American citizens since 2001 yet failed to disclose the extent of White House spying; spying which continued unabated until a few days before Donald Trump was elected President. Circa.com's Sara Carter reviewed once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to date by the U.S. intelligence community. In declassified documents made public by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), Obama’s NSA admitted that its analysts were violating surveillance rules on a regular basis. This pattern of Executive branch overreach, coupled with the timing of the government’s disclosure, resulted...

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coat presented a bleak appraisal to Senate Intelligence Committee about the threat North Korea posed to the United States. He pointed out that it’s “nuclear weapons program poses a potentially “existential” threat to the United States.” The Hermit kingdom’s ambitious program will be a matter of time before they can deploy intercontinental nuclear tipped ballistic missiles. North Korea’s unprecedented nuclear and missile testing last year indicates leader Kim Jong Un is intent upon developing and deploying ballistic missiles during his reign. His propaganda officials have claimed that the nation could conduct its first launch of...

In his final year in office Mr. Obama’s administration significantly expanded the availability of National Security Agency (NSA) intercepts of American citizens. His order spread unredacted intelligence reports across many government entities, many without a need to know, to have, or share either before or after the 2016 presidential election. The reports put in full view the names of American citizens. This may validate Maxine Waters’ claim of Obama’s secret database in 2013. Data released this week by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) provided evidence of NSA’s collection of info on American Citizens, maintained in a...

While America’s Christians were celebrating Easter the North Koreans celebrated the “Day of the Sun,” honoring the 105th birthday of Kim Il-sung, the nation’s first communist dictator and “eternal president.” Thousands of soldiers, military vehicles and an array of fake weapons were marching under the careful inspection of current supreme leader Kim Jong-Un, the grandson of Kim Il-sung. Close examination reveals that Kim’s military force may be better suited for propaganda than actual battle. In a blazing display of saber rattling the Hermit Kingdom presented a video of its overrated ballistic missiles that explode on the Launchpad. The video demonstrated...

During a showdown with the United States, North Korea attempted to test launch a land-based ballistic missile from its eastern coast. But the missile exploded almost immediately after launch. The disastrous test launch has fueled media speculation that the failed attempt was the result of a clandestine, U.S. cyber-attack. When asked if U.S. cyber-attack cause the explosion of the North Korean test launch, White House Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland told reporters, “We can’t talk about secret intelligence and things that might have been done, covert operations that might have happened.” an interview with the BBC, Former British Conservative...

On April 13, 2017, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb known as the Mother of All Bombs or MOAB for short was used for the first time in combat. The largest non-nuclear weapon in current inventory was used against an ISIS target in a remote part of far northeast Afghanistan. The target in question was reportedly an ISIS complex of tunnels, caves and a camp where personnel were assembling. The MOAB is a large-yield conventional (non-nuclear) precision guided bomb, developed for the United States Air Force by Albert L. Weimorts, Jr. of the Air Force Research Laboratory. At the...

Last Tuesday, in an early morning airstrike, the Syrian Air Force attacked the town of Khan Sheikhoun with Chemical weapons. The attack appeared to involve the use of sarin, a powerful and deadly nerve gas Moved by the images of Syrian victims, President Trump released a statement: “Today’s chemical attack in Syria against innocent people, including women and children, is reprehensible and cannot be ignored by the civilized world.” The President blamed the previous administration for not being more aggressive against Syria’s past use of weapons of mass destruction. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the chemical attack made...

This week, U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Joseph Votel testified before the House Armed Services Committee. In his opening statement, he declared that "Iran poses the greatest long-term threat to stability in this part of the world." To this day, Iran has not improved its behavior since the nuclear agreement was signed. In a written statement, the General pointed out, "the [nuclear] agreement has led some to believe that we have largely addressed the Iranian problem set and that is not the case.” Since the nuclear agreement, Iran has been clearly focused on expanding its influence and power throughout the...

In a twist of fate the House Intelligence Committee investigation turned its attention to newly disclosed intelligence reports that suggested the Obama administration directed the electronic surveillance and dissemination of reports targeting President Trump and his transition team prior to the new president’s inauguration. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), hinted that the previous administration used intelligence assets to spy on the communications of the incoming Administration. According to Nunes, the suggestion that intelligence gathered on American citizens was “incidental,” this is nothing more than legalese designed to provide cover for the conduct of...

Over the last few weeks, the “Deep State” has been conducting war against President Trump and his administration. Democrats in congress and their stenographers in the mainstream media are celebrating “victories” over political adversaries by means of drawing fake news from anonymous leaks. Facts, it seems, have no place in these contrived assaults on the White House. During just over five weeks in office this president has been under near constant attack by the unelected bureaucrats who pose a direct threat to America’s democratic institutions. It literally represents a threat to the peaceful transition of power and directly undermines both...

"Deep state" exists where sophisticated shadow governments allegedly control or influence key aspects of state policy. The term has recently gained attention as the Trump Administration has struggled to gain control of unelected bureaucrats seeking to destroy the policies of elected government officials. The most notable attacks came from America’s intelligence community. “Deep state” describes embedded, anonymous, bureaucratic bias against President Trump and Republican rule. They are the unnamed sources leaking documents, making confidential conversations public, pushing rogue social media accounts and otherwise acting in an underhanded manner to discredit the president and undermine his policies. Government employees are using...

Before Obama left office, he expanded the power of the National Security Agency (NSA) to share globally intercepted personal communications, including those of Americans, with 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections. The NSA is the collection agency of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT). SIGINT is intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether communications between people (communications intelligence—abbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication. This includes cell phones. The new rules greatly relax longstanding security limits which dictated what the NSA may do with the information gathered by its surveillance operations. For instance, rules had been written...

On his fifth day in the oval office, President Trump, over dinner with Secretary of Defense Mattis and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was presented with the first of many life-or-death decisions he will be required make. The mission presented to the President for his approval involved a raid on the small, heavily guarded brick home of a senior Qaeda collaborator in a mountainous village in a remote part of central Yemen. Mr. Obama’s national security aides had reviewed the plans but Obama would not approve the mission because the Pentagon wanted to launch the attack on...

President Donald J. Trump takes his role as Commander-in-Chief seriously. He never served in the American Armed Forces, but is a commander that accepts the responsibly of his position. This week, the President made an unannounced trip in order to pay tribute to a U.S. Navy SEAL who was killed last weekend in Yemen. In a statement released by the President; “Americans are saddened this morning with news that a life of a heroic service member has been taken in our fight against the evil of radical Islamic terrorism,” Trump said in the statement. “The sacrifices made by the men...

The Islamic State has deployed a new threat in the battlefield and potentially in the West. The terrorists are launching commercially available drones and remote controlled aircrafts that are being weaponized. They are being used as grenade launchers, kamikaze bombers, flying decoys and for reconnaissance. They have the potential to be used as terror weapons on civilian population in the West. This new capability has alarmed western armed forces, making it clear that the Islamic State one day could attack urban areas from the air as well as on the ground. Many of the drones and RCs being adapted are...

The American military under Obama received less focus about preparing to fight wars than as a laboratory for social engineering. The military was ordered to integrate Homosexuals and transgenders into the ranks. The armed forces had to place its war fighting training on hold in order to adopt the “politically correct,” liberal agenda of the far left. As a result, the military has begun to lose its fighting spirit and forgotten its heritage and history. The Obamas Regime’s “inclusive approach” has managed to minimize the expression of religion in the ranks. Officers and enlisted alike have been disciplined for displaying...

This week, intelligence reports submitted to the United Nations Security Council reported that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has allegedly been smuggling weapons on commercial flights to Hezbollah and other terrorists operating in Syria. Weapons smuggling is a violation of two Security Council resolutions. The revelation has renewed focus on a congressional inquiry to re-implement sanctions on Iran that have been obstructed by the Obama administration since October. According to intelligence gathered, Iran was using its Mahan Airline to covertly deliver advanced weaponry to the terrorist forces in the region. The weapons were either delivered directly to Hezbollah via “commercial flights from...

Code name TITANPOINTE is believed to describe a massive skyscraper, capable of withstanding an atomic blast, in the middle of New York City. It has no windows, 29 floors with three basement levels and enough food to last 1,500 people two weeks in the event of a catastrophe. The building was not created as a shelter for humans from a nuclear war but as a hardened facility for housing powerful computers, cables and switchboards. It is one of America’s most important telecommunications hubs. It is owned by AT&T and operated by the New York Telephone Company. The “Long Lines Building”...

The Great War--World War I--officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919. However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. November 11, 1918 is generally regarded as the end of “The Great War.” One year later, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day. He declared, "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism...