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The U.S. Coast Guard doesn't always get the respect it's due, mostly because it's the only branch that doesn't always fall under the Department of Defense. But that technicality doesn't mean the Coast Guard doesn't have some cool stuff.
When veterans of World War II returned home to McMinn County, Tennessee, they probably weren't surprised to find that many of the same politicians from before the war were still running the place. A local political machine run by Paul Cantrell ha…
One of the most decorated soldiers in American history had his big day on Jan. 26, 1945. For three hours, he fought off dozens of advancing Nazi troops, coming at him from three sides. He did it with a field phone, an M2 Browning .50-cal, and his tr…
Air forces around the world have to wrestle with one simple but scary fact: Their fighters may have to go against the F-22 and, to maybe a lesser degree, the F-35, both fifth-generation stealth fighters equipped with modern, lethal air-to-air weapon…
In 1961, 158 Irish soldiers with no combat experience came under determined attack from 3,000-5,000 African rebels and European mercenaries, surviving five days of airstrikes, mortar barrages, and frontal assaults while on a U.N. peacekeeping missio…
A book from a nuclear whistleblower has a stunning claim that the U.S. Air Force once had a plan to throw off Soviet missiles by stopping the rotation of the earth with a thousand rockets.Yup, the Wile E. Coyote missile defense plan which, th…
It's a known fact that Marines are territorial by nature and do not play well with other branches while in garrison. It stems from our culture. Even though other branches have more funding and better promotion mobility, our intensity on an individu…
This article is sponsored by MIPS, pioneers in brain protection systems.There's no amount of science that will protect you from a .50 …
The US Army's highly secretive counterterrorist unit, 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta, is without a doubt among the best counterterrorism units in the world. While Delta is extremely well known, if only by its name, it wa…
