When I heard about Rep. Steve King's life or death struggle against a "crazy raccoon", I thought he'd hit on a good idea - an anti-raccoon militia. Raccoons are crafty bastards. They move at night, defeat all manner of home defenses, and wear tiny burglar masks. Hell, you don't even have to profile them to see how dangerous they are. They may even be Islamic terrorists.
Former Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has won a landslide victory in the presidential election that ended Wednesday, provisional results showed on Thursday.
The defense chiefs of Japan, South Korea and the United States agreed on Saturday to jointly counter missile threats from North Korea, stressing the importance of sharing information within the three-party framework.
Iran's top air defense commander Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli announced that a U-2 stealth aircraft was alarmed last week to stay away from the country's borders after Iranian missile shields locked on the US spy plane.
The president's man in Tehran was feeling the pressure and needed reassurance. On 12 January 1979, General Robert "Dutch" Huyser wrote to Harold Brown, US secretary of defense, and General David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to make sure he knew what they wanted him to do.