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Blake Stilwell is a traveler and writer with degrees in design, television & film, journalism, public relations, international relations, and business administration. He is a former combat photographer with experience in politics, entertainment, development, nonprofit, military, and government. His career includes work in Business Insider, Fox News, ABC News, NBC, HBO, and the White House.
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World War II ‘Dazzle Ships’ were painted to attract enemy subs
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Puerto Ricans gained US citizenship just in time to be drafted for World War I
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An ‘undead’ general thrashed the Spartans after his execution
Apr 29, 2020 3:57 PM PDT
A Soviet pilot claims he brought down Francis Gary Powers – not a missile
Apr 29, 2020 3:57 PM PDT
That time India took half of Pakistan to pay for a motorcycle
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Why fake soldiers at Checkpoint Charlie got the boot from Berlin
Apr 29, 2020 3:57 PM PDT
Win the first War on Terror by backing ‘Shores of Tripoli’ on Kickstarter
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This is the weapon NASA will use to fight Earth-ending asteroids
Apr 29, 2020 3:57 PM PDT
Check out this crazy double-barreled bolt action rifle
Apr 29, 2020 3:57 PM PDT
Why ancient Romans built statues of their greatest enemy
Apr 29, 2020 3:57 PM PDT
How iconic actor James Dean will star in the latest Vietnam War movie
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This is ‘the moment of truth’ everyone faces in basic training
Apr 29, 2020 3:57 PM PDT
These are the new ‘most-wanted’ al-Qaeda terrorists
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
Everyone lost their minds when a Marine general relieved an Army general
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
The Indian Army made a grenade from ghost peppers
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
The Japanese have a shrine for every dead warrior who died honorably
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
How effective draftees in the Vietnam War actually were
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
This World War I veteran came home and built himself a castle in Ohio
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
6 absurd military habits that stay with you forever
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
Why any war with China will get Americans drafted
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
This former slave became the first African-American West Point grad
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
The Russians had Women’s ‘Battalions of Death’ in World War I
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
World War II vets rebuilt an APC to drive through the Iron Curtain
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
The Air Force wants to retire these 8 aircraft
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
Communist Czechs had one recipe book to cook from
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
JJ Watt will fund Honor Flight with his new Reebok shoe line
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
6 foreign films where the US military are definitely the bad guys
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
Watch the USS Constitution fire a cannon for the Marines birthday
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
Service Academy athletes can now go pro after graduation
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
Watch how a soldier who survived an RPG in Iraq lives on after ten years
Apr 29, 2020 3:58 PM PDT
Watch a West Point athlete destroy the indoor obstacle course test
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
Veterans will get access to Commissary, Exchange, and MWR services
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
Check out this Royal Marine’s real-world Iron Man jetpack suit
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
The ‘Raptors’ are elite Chinese police arresting protesters in Hong Kong
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
The US general most respected by the Nazis may surprise you
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
Airmen will soon be able to 3D print entire weapons systems on the flightline
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
Why Mexico’s military deployed in the United States for the first time in 150 years
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
This is why Washington wasn’t relentlessly attacked by the Confederates
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
The worst cyber attack in DoD history came from a USB drive found in a parking lot
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
The ‘most Russian movie possible’ has a machine gun toting bear
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
Why France’s president calls Syria ‘the brain death of NATO’
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
How Western Union helped the US enter World War I
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
The hilarious real reason why the F-22 can’t be hacked
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
What changes when drug cartels are listed as foreign terrorists
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
The UK’s ‘Unknown Warrior’ lies among the most historic kings of Britain
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
How the IRS scored one of the biggest child pornography busts in history
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
3 sweeping things the new NDAA passed by the House will do
Apr 29, 2020 3:59 PM PDT
An NFL player and West Pointer reenlisted troops before the Cardinals-Rams game
Apr 29, 2020 4:00 PM PDT
How Iran openly attacked Saudi Arabia and got away with it
Apr 29, 2020 4:00 PM PDT
A Navy captain was relieved for sinking a ship-killing German sub in 1942
Apr 29, 2020 4:00 PM PDT
Kentucky Colonels are real and they have nothing to do with chicken
Apr 29, 2020 4:00 PM PDT
This is how naval mines take down ships of war
Apr 29, 2020 4:00 PM PDT