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Though the Middle East is a major market with enormous potential for China, they’ve yet to establish any real foothold in the region.

Why Russia’s DShK Machine Gun Is Fighting Around the World Around nine thousand DShK’s were produced during World War II, serving primarily in Red Army anti-aircraft units. Here's What You Need to Remember: Dushka and KPV machine guns mounted on trucks continue to play a major role on all sides of the civil wars in Syria and Libya, and insurgency in Iraq, and even crop up in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Modern Western warplanes now mostly use precision-guided weapons at high altitudes that leave them well outside the range of heavy machine gun fire. Few American weapons are quite so ...

STREAM IT ON THE PLATFORMS: This week on SOFREP Radio we’re excited to welcome our guest, Col. Michael Leonard (ret.), US Air Force pilot and author of the new book An American Combat Bird Dog Pilot: From the Battlefield of Vietnam and Beyond. In this exclusive interview with Leonard, we get a first hand account of his adventures, from his days before the military right on through to his years as an executive working for companies like the Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation and Lockheed-Martin. Of note is Leonard’s recounting of close calls as a O-1 Bird Dog pilot in Vietnam. ...

Barack obama talking about the situation in iraq. >> we had the situation in pretty good shape in 2010, first part of 2011. i think the security in iraq was pretty good. the security forces were pretty good. but, that was because we had presence on the ground and we had influence so we could restrain maliki's first instincts, which were anti-sunni, and we could ensure that the leaders of the iraqi security forces actually were competent and well-trained instead of a bunch of political hacks which is what -- who maliki put in place. >> maliki, norry al maliki former prime minister of iraq. >> h...