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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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This is what happened to the USS Constitution’s original guns
Aug 15, 2021 11:04 PM PDT
This British sub hoisted its own Jolly Roger after sinking an Argentine cruiser
Aug 14, 2021 11:20 PM PDT
Let this Swedish metal band be your war history teacher
Aug 13, 2021 11:50 PM PDT
The ‘Yucca Man’ is a beast that stalks Marines at 29 Palms
Aug 9, 2021 11:52 PM PDT
‘The Ghost’ is the most decorated infantry officer you’ve never heard of
Aug 9, 2021 11:57 PM PDT
The 4 best surrender decisions in military history
Jul 27, 2021 11:25 PM PDT
This is what ICBM crews will do after a missile launch
Jul 25, 2021 11:54 PM PDT
US aircraft carriers are almost unsinkable giants of the ocean
Jul 25, 2021 11:53 PM PDT
This is how Robert E. Lee’s house became Arlington National Cemetery
Jul 25, 2021 11:43 PM PDT
Someone wrote a list of 65 ways civilians can simulate military life and it’s hilarious
Jul 23, 2021 11:28 PM PDT
The UK’s MI6 intelligence agency really issues licenses to kill
Jul 23, 2021 11:11 PM PDT
How this World War I soldier earned the Medal of Honor in a mustard gas attack
Jul 22, 2021 11:49 PM PDT
The 66 religious symbols the VA will put on tombstones
Jul 22, 2021 11:20 PM PDT
French Marines ended a hostage crisis with a bayonet charge
Jul 20, 2021 11:48 PM PDT
The incredible stand of the Irish Army in the Congo
Jul 18, 2021 11:52 PM PDT
There was a special word for Confederates who joined the US Army
Jul 18, 2021 11:50 PM PDT
This was the fastest manned aircraft ever
Jul 18, 2021 11:54 PM PDT
This insane law would force everyone who wanted a war to go fight it
Jul 17, 2021 11:47 PM PDT
The Air Force built one of the world’s fastest computers out of Playstations
Jul 14, 2021 11:45 PM PDT
That time British Intelligence hacked al-Qaeda just to mess with them
Jul 14, 2021 11:22 PM PDT
This amazing weapon is made of narwhal tusk and meteors
Jul 10, 2021 11:53 PM PDT
How Teddy Roosevelt’s gun was as awesome as he was
Jul 10, 2021 11:47 PM PDT
How you can buy M1911 pistols made from meteorites
Jul 10, 2021 11:47 PM PDT
That time a baseball player saved Old Glory from the torch
Jul 10, 2021 11:46 PM PDT
This app lets you see the destructive power of nukes on your hometown
Jul 9, 2021 11:16 PM PDT
Why the Soviet Union wanted to nuke this hot dog stand
Jul 9, 2021 11:14 PM PDT
Watch award-winning actor Bryan Cranston narrate the D-Day landings
Jul 8, 2021 11:08 PM PDT
This is why US troops still wear laces on their boots
Jul 7, 2021 11:16 PM PDT
Ancient nomads protect Genghis Khan’s tomb to this day
Jul 7, 2021 11:14 PM PDT
A Vietnam veteran re-enlisted to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan
Jul 6, 2021 11:47 PM PDT
The last soldier drafted by the US Army retired in 2011
Jul 4, 2021 11:46 PM PDT
Navy battleships pulled off the biggest military deception of Desert Storm
Jul 2, 2021 11:50 PM PDT
This Army wife’s wedding dress is made of the parachute that saved her husband
Jul 1, 2021 11:46 PM PDT
These ladies attend every funeral at Arlington so no one is buried alone
May 31, 2021 3:01 PM PDT
That time Patton denied the guy who saved his life in WWI
Jun 29, 2021 11:16 PM PDT
6 things you didn’t know about Operation Market Garden
Jun 27, 2021 11:17 PM PDT
The spy who gave nukes to the USSR applied for a veteran’s pension
Jun 27, 2021 11:58 AM PDT
A ‘Lone Sailor’ statue is now in place at Normandy
Jun 24, 2021 11:51 PM PDT
Someone coined a term for the English spoken by military veterans
Jun 24, 2021 11:45 PM PDT
This is what happens when you try to invade and conquer Russia
Jun 22, 2021 5:44 PM PDT
The insane way Vlad the Impaler turned back an enemy army
Jun 18, 2021 11:42 PM PDT
The first Muslim Green Beret was also in Iran’s Special Forces
Jun 17, 2021 11:24 PM PDT
This Soviet pilot stole the plane of a Nazi pilot who landed to try and kill him
Jun 16, 2021 11:39 PM PDT
That time a Marine general led a fictional Iran against the US military – and won
Jun 15, 2021 6:43 PM PDT
Canadians honor their fallen troops by lining the ‘Highway of Heroes’
Jun 15, 2021 11:44 PM PDT
Watch these flight students pass out during high-G training
Jun 15, 2021 11:50 PM PDT
12 surprising facts about The War of 1812
Jun 15, 2021 11:09 PM PDT
This hard-drinking salty Coast Guard sea dog was banned from Greenland
Jun 15, 2021 11:05 PM PDT
This wounded airman saved his team (with an A-10’s help)
Jun 9, 2021 11:57 AM PDT
The daring sabotage raid that kept Nazis from getting The Bomb
Jun 8, 2021 11:29 PM PDT
Watch the effects of an A-10’s GAU-8 cannon on an enemy building
Jun 8, 2021 11:10 PM PDT
Watch this WWII commando veteran explain how to spot a sniper
Jun 7, 2021 11:28 PM PDT