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Hitler, oddly enough, seemed obsessed with America in many ways. He admired Henry Ford and American industrialization. He liked American films and Mickey Mouse cartoons. And, perhaps most oddly for a man of Hitler's obsession with perception and pr…
When the Department of Defense first started buying AR-15s, they were clean, fast-firing, and accurate weapons popular with the airmen and Special Forces soldiers who carried them. But as the Army prepared to purchase them en masse, a hatre…
Service members are awesome people — they really are. But sometimes, they can do some pretty wild sh*t. Of course you've heard of your unit's token boot who bought a Mustang with an insane interest rate (you know who I'm talking about) and you…
Jack ReVelle, an Air Force munitions expert during the Cold War, recently went to a sound booth to record an interview with his daughter where the pair discussed one of the most harrowing moments of Jack's life: That time he was called to North Car…
The US has committed to pulling its forces, as well as NATO forces, out of Afghanistan in a serious bid to stop the 17-year-long war that's claimed tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of US tax dollars.Citing "significant pr…
The Mass Effect series has had its share of ups and downs, but one thing is undeniable — the world-building was done insanely well. One such piece of world-building that is worth mentioning is the existence of the Special Tactics and Reco…
The world of espionage is a high-stakes chess game of clandestine operations where the end justifies the means. The idea of professional temptresses infiltrating our government and financial institutions has been romanticized as a relic of another a…
Hey, remember in your last cyber awareness re-certification when you had to click through a whole scenario based on whether or not you would share industrial secrets on message boards with friends you had met at a science and engineering convention?…
Go backward for a better burnHave you ever seen someone go backwards on a treadmill? I'm sure you have, and you may have thought to yourself, "What is that idiot doing?!" Well, according to researchers from South Africa, they are not idi…
When we think of NFL payers, we often think of incredible athletes. Most are taller than six feet and most pack more than 230 pounds of pure muscle. We might even believe they have to be physically perfect to compete at a level where people are cons…
In May, 1988, smack in the middle of the Iran-Contra Affair, the Reagan Administration, nearing its sunset, weathered a very different kind of affair: the release of his former Chief of Staff's book, which claimed that Nancy Reagan controlled the s…
It shouldn't be surprising that the majority of professional wildlife protectors in Africa are men, but this group of 'Brave Ones' are proving why women deserve a place among their ranks. Called the Akashinga (a word that means 'the brave…
Joshua T. asks: What were all those metal things you see on the beaches in pictures of the Omaha landing?The Normandy Invasions represented one of the single largest military maneuvers in history. Beginning on June 6, 1944, the invasion was t…
The days after the September 11th attacks were very different from the United States' "business as usual" of post-Cold War days gone by. As the days stretched into weeks, the culture of the U.S. changed a little bit, and you could see it everywhe…
During World War II, a troop transport ship made from a converted luxury coastal liner was hit by a German torpedo on its starboard side in 1943, dooming the ship and many of the men aboard. Amid the chaos, four chaplains representing three Christia…
In February, 2014, Taliban insurgents released a video with what they claimed was a U.S. prisoner of war that they had captured the previous year. They called him "colonel" as they led him around by a leash and described taking him during a night …
The Civil War was a revolutionary conflict for the planet with steam power, repeating rifles, and improved cannons all changing the face of warfare. European powers sent observers to see how battles were fought, and how the rules of combat evolved a…
The US Navy commissioned the USS South Dakota on Feb. 2, 2019, and, in doing so, ushered in a new era of millennial undersea war fighters and the most technologically advanced submarine hunter-killer on Earth."I think we can honestl…
Preparing for the abs portion of your PT test might trick you into thinking you have a six pack, but those workouts are potentially getting you into worse shape. Stop taking ab selfies in the gym mirror and listen up."Core exerc…
We've all heard of Rudy Reyes, the Recon Marine, martial artist, and actor who famously played himself in the HBO miniseries, Generation Kill, but few people really know what Rudy has been up to these days. Hell, we didn't know e…