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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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4 times Canada was more moto than the US
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This Revolutionary War battle was fought in lard with swords
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The intense rules for US Marines who protected mail from gangsters
Jun 10, 2022 6:26 PM PDT
How one commander tried to get his men to leak D-Day plans
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5 things that surprised the German army on D-Day
Jun 6, 2022 6:07 AM PDT
One man dumped most of the combat footage of D-Day into the English Channel
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These British troops launched a ‘proper angry’ bayonet charge during the Iraq War
Jun 7, 2021 11:10 PM PDT
This is the story of the Civil War’s only double-barrel cannon
May 31, 2022 6:18 AM PDT
That time an Army Air Corps bomber crashed into the Empire State Building
May 29, 2022 5:59 AM PDT
The Army Air Corps once bombed Oklahoma
May 28, 2022 3:28 AM PDT
Here’s what happened 6 other times US embassies were attacked
May 28, 2022 3:28 AM PDT
How this paratrooper got his trench knife back after 70 years
May 26, 2022 4:57 AM PDT
The insane life of this Holocaust survivor and Special Forces veteran
May 25, 2022 5:32 AM PDT
Even more proof the C-130 is the toughest plane ever made
May 24, 2022 5:26 AM PDT
These war movie characters describe your NFL team’s performance during the regular season
Jan 28, 2019 6:38 PM PST
This Navy SEAL unit was ‘the most hard luck platoon’ to fight in Vietnam
Nov 1, 2018 8:36 PM PDT
That time this Navy squadron bombed North Vietnam with a toilet
Jul 14, 2021 11:47 PM PDT
This failed assassin was North Korean special forces’ ‘Lone Survivor’
May 7, 2022 6:08 AM PDT
This Israeli soldier survived getting shot in his grenades
May 7, 2022 6:04 AM PDT
9 American heroes who received France’s Legion of Honor
May 1, 2022 6:01 AM PDT
11 regional American foods we’d like to see in MREs
Apr 21, 2022 5:34 AM PDT
The 6 dumbest things I thought I knew about the military before joining
Apr 9, 2021 4:51 AM PDT
This was Canada’s WWII plan to build an aircraft carrier made of ice
Mar 30, 2021 4:10 AM PDT
How drug dealers used the US military to smuggle heroin
Mar 30, 2022 5:34 AM PDT
How the US military gave Five Finger Death Punch a huge boost
Mar 29, 2022 5:58 AM PDT
Visiting the tombs of these 6 dictators makes a great summer getaway package
Mar 21, 2022 5:35 AM PDT
WATCH: Tom Cruise gets firearms training from a former British SAS operator
Mar 20, 2022 5:39 AM PDT
SEAL Team Six overcame the impossible in this perfect rescue op
Mar 20, 2022 5:37 AM PDT
A Korean War POW escaped from captivity after 55 years
Mar 5, 2021 3:46 AM PST
These are the 6 wars the Chinese think they’ll fight in the next 50 years
Feb 17, 2022 4:40 AM PST
21 facts about the First Gulf War
Feb 10, 2022 5:46 AM PST
A hungover Air Force vet scored the first Super Bowl touchdown ever
Feb 5, 2022 5:06 AM PST
5 real-world covert operations in FX’s “Archer”
Feb 5, 2022 5:04 AM PST
This Steeler went to four Super Bowls after being wounded in Vietnam
Feb 4, 2022 5:44 AM PST
5 Seldom-told tales about Air Force legends
Feb 12, 2021 9:35 AM PST
General Petraeus returned to duty days after being shot in the chest with an M-16
Jan 31, 2022 5:29 AM PST
This Vietnam War POW used a propaganda film to blink ‘TORTURE’ in Morse Code
Jan 30, 2022 6:34 AM PST
The Centurion tank was tough enough to survive a nuclear blast
Jan 29, 2022 5:55 AM PST
This is why the rituals of the tattooed Maori Warriors live on
Jan 29, 2022 5:54 AM PST
This is why President Truman turned down the Medal of Honor
Jan 29, 2022 5:53 AM PST
This Holocaust survivor recounts his daring escape from Auschwitz
Jan 29, 2022 5:51 AM PST
11 amazing facts about aircraft ejection seats
Jan 28, 2022 5:01 AM PST
‘Dear John’ letters inspired a classic Jim Croce song
Jan 26, 2021 1:05 AM PST
These are the 8 reincarnations of General Patton
Jan 29, 2021 12:50 AM PST
This ‘El Sal’ soldier kicked *ss with just a switchblade
Jan 20, 2022 6:34 AM PST
7 surprising facts about Bob Hope
Jan 11, 2022 5:32 AM PST
15 best foreign war films
Jan 2, 2021 3:00 PM PST
This is the mass suicide mission the Soviets wanted to use on the US Navy in WWIII
Jan 6, 2022 7:40 AM PST
This was the WWI battle between Mexico and the US
Jan 6, 2022 7:39 AM PST
6 ways to drink like a nearly-immortal American warrior
Jan 2, 2022 3:53 AM PST
This PJ is the most decorated enlisted airman in history
Jan 1, 2022 7:17 AM PST
This is why the US never exported the deadly F-22
Jan 1, 2022 7:16 AM PST