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2018 was a pretty good year for military innovation, but 2019 is shaping up to be even better. The Pentagon and DARPA are experimenting with virtual and augmented reality, developing new aircraft and vehicles, and expanding their robotics and hypers…
High-Mobility Artillery Rockets systems are trucks that can take highly capable rockets right to the frontlines in combat, but before HIMARs, the Army experimented with strapping rockets onto helicopters in Vietnam and using them as true helicopter …
Every person who has ever worn the uniform has had to, one day, step away from the uniform. The uncertainty that often accompanies that day is something that no explanation can truly capture, you'll have to have your own experience. Once you're on…
Germany only produced one kind of tank in World War I, and only one example of it still survives. Recently, Australian historians worked with Queensland Police and Ballistic Bomb Unit and the Defense Science & Technology Group to analyze what, e…
It was a good year for the war-military movie genre. There weren't many of them made this year, but the quality was much, much better than in years past. There could be many reasons for this; the rise in military veterans wanting a say in how their…
Every year, millions of us decide that this is the year we get into the best shape of our lives. Either we're going to lose 50 pounds and get shredded or we're going to pack on 20 pounds of muscle and completely change our lives. Whatever the case…
Right now, the fastest military helicopter in the world is the U.S. Army's Chinook, but the Army is looking at a new family of vertical lift helicopters, and both top contenders are much faster than the Chinook. But the U.S. isn't the only major…
In the early days of Rome, the city collected its own taxes. They would assess an individual's wealth, impose a 1% tax, and then place them into a property class. The higher your wealth class, the more you paid in taxes, which were then used to buy…
Known simply as "The Wall" to the men and women who can find the name of a loved one inscribed on it, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall lists the names of those who fell during the Vietnam War. The names are arranged first by date, and then alpha…
The two World Wars were some of the first true industrial wars, forcing leaders to innovate so they would lose fewer troops and have a chance at victory. While some were slow to change, some leaders figured out truly novel ways of using everything f…
Alcohol is, like, super awesome. All the cool kids are drinking (unless you're underage, then none of the cool kids are drinking it, you delinquent), it can lower peoples' inhibitions, and it's actually super easy to make and distribute.…
The British Army has had many iconic recruitment ad campaigns over the years. From Lord Kitchener's, "Your Country Needs You" that became the basis of nearly every other recruitment poster to WWI's famous, "Your chums are fighting. Why…
Leave it to military veterans to make one of Earth's last tests of human endurance that much more difficult. It's a 6,000-mile bike ride from the town of Jonkoping, Sweden, to the base camp of Mount Everest. Former Swedish paratrooper Gor…
When a newlywed troop moves off base and bids a bittersweet farewell to the debauchery of barracks life, there are changes to the day-to-day routine. While one must still fulfill the responsibilities of their rank, there are other challenges a marri…
Who doesn't love a bit of candy to lighten the mood? Today, troops opening up an MRE might find a bag of Skittles or some sweets in there to help boost morale a little bit. This isn't anything new; troops have had some kind of candy in rations sin…
The most-produced tank in World War II was fast, powerful, and well protected by sloped armor, and it was made by a candy maker who got tired of confections and decided to make a revolutionary tank instead. Willy Wonka, eat your heart out.
Quality. It's what you expect from a product or service when you put cash on the table. The majority of mobile games do not mesh well with a military lifestyle: You must be connected to the internet to play, you must purchase gems to access …
There's no doubt about it. Steven Spielberg's 1998 war epic, Saving Private Ryan, was a masterpiece in every aspect of filmmaking. It won five of the eleven Academy Awards for which it was nominated. The immense scale of the invasion of N…
Saddam Hussein once famously believed that the United States was a country whose people couldn't handle 10,000 dead in a war. Whether that's true or not remains to be seen because no one has been able to inflict those kinds of losses on t…