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We on Team WATM agree that no matter how you feel about the countries depicted or the wars they're fighting in these movies, without a doubt, all these films are better than The Hurt Locker. Here are the 15 best foreign war mov…

If you jumped into a time machine and found yourself at a recruiting office during World War II, what job would be safest to sign up for? While most people hoping to stay alive would just pick "anything but infantry," there were actually other jo…

Being in the military requires you to quickly adapt to a very strict code of conduct. The military lifestyle prevents laziness and forces you to maintain a consistent, proper appearance. When troops leave the service, however, they seem to glide rig…

In some ways, we know the story of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. It was a dominant fighter plane in the early portion of World War II in the Pacific Theater, only to become an easy target. But how did this happen?

The analogy is simple. There are three types of people in this world: sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. The vast majority of people are sheep — nothing wrong with that. They move about their day carelessly, are loving and compassionate beasts, and onl…

After reading the headline of this article, you might be thinking, "why?" We think it's better to start with, "what?"In this case, "what" is a replica of the "Roaring Meg," a mortar used in the English Civil War in …

Almost everyone in the world has a favorite soda that they enjoy whenever they get the opportunity. But, is your favorite tasty drink worth giving up a military arsenal big enough to stock a whole country? Well, at one point in history, the Russi…

The trombone is an interesting instrument. No, wait! Don't click away! Seriously, we're building to a point about the military. Basically, playing music on the trombone requires two manipulations to produce different notes and patterns.…

Being forward deployed in a foreign country has many dangers. No matter how well you fortify your Forward Operating Base, it'll never be safe — only safer. But for mo…

When a soldier is wounded on the battlefield, medics get the call. Medics are sort of like paramedics or emergency medical technicians in the civilian world, except paramedics and EMTs are less likely to carry assault rifles or be fired…

Everyone has heard the phrase "cash is king" but that's not always the case when troops are deployed overseas. When service members deploy to remote areas, they enter a barter economy where cash loses value since there is nearly nowhe…

In 2013, a former Soviet Navy officer named Maksim Y. Tokarev penned an article in the U.S. Naval War College Review called