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Source: AFP SUBSTITUTE Ben Watson scored an injury-time winner to give Wigan Athletic a sensational 1-0 win over Manchester City at Wembley Stadium in the biggest FA Cup final upset in 25 years. With extra time beckoning, Watson met a Shaun Maloney ...

I've always admired USMC general General James Mattis. I first encountered him when I read his scathing takedown of Effects-Based Operations (EBO) in 2008, and soon became familiar with his operational record in Iraq and endlessly entertaining ...

Although chemical weapons are often considered weapons of mass destruction, they are not. In the case of sarin gas, many tons must be released under favorable conditions before it can inflict significantly more damage than conventional explosives.

The rebels in Syria could be excused for wondering what U.S. policy toward them might be. At times, President Barack Obama has implied that the United States can't do much to help them because none of them has been gassed. By threatening enormous ...

Here are the results of our survey of good books of military history that aren't about the U.S. military. There were so many British books mentioned that I moved them into a second category. The first part here is genuinely foreign books -- not ...

Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas (Ganassi BMW/Riley) extended their championship lead, Saturday, by winning the 2013 Grand Prix of Atltanta. Friday's rain forced the cancellation of the qualifying session, which meant Pruett and Rojas could start ...

What you need to know John Logan's new play Peter and Alice, starring Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw, has opened at the Noel Coward Theatre. Logan is best known for his Tony award-winning play about Mark Rothko, Red. Directed by Michael Grandage, Peter ...

European defence in crisis?[1] A shadow of uncertainty looms over European defence.[2] A lasting financial and economic crisis is having crippling effects upon budgets and capabilities.[3] Worse still, unless halted and reversed, defence budget cuts ...