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Exhaustion is the great equalizer. There comes a point for everyone when your body demands sleep, and if you aren't willing to give it what it wants, things start to get rough. It doesn't matter if you're a soldier on post in a combat zo…
If there's anything people know about troops and veterans, it's that they're disciplined and more often than not, they plan things very well. It should come as a surprise to no one that the gangster who perfected the bank heist was a soldier who …
For almost two decades, drone strikes have been the hassle-free, war crime tolerant way to sever the heads of any kind of terror cells operating against the United States in the war on terror. There's just one big problem with that: Hellfire missil…
There's an old saying within the writer's world. "Write what you know." Meaning that every artist should always put a bit of their own life experiences into their creations to help create the feeling that the world they're creating is real enou…
There were more than 6000 veteran suicides each year from 2008-2016 alone. In contrast, the total number of fatal casua…
Sitting across the table from Remi Adeleke is a pretty powerful experience. This is a man who exudes charisma and excellence.You'd never know that he was born into African royalty, lost his father and everything his family owned, relocated t…
Francis Ford Coppola was originally worried his soon-to-be iconic Apocalypse Now would be "too weird" for audiences, so he made major cuts to his film. Now, you'll be able to see it in all its wacky glory, including
Making it through selection to serve in one of America's elite special operations units marks an unusual milestone in a service member's career. Making the cut serves as the culmination of a lifetime of preparation and hard work, while simultaneou…
Top Army air defenders and others from Army fires have been trying for years to figure out how to efficiently counter enemy drone swarms. We have missiles that ca…
While companies such as Mitsubishi and Rolls Royce are well-known for producing everything from motorbikes to air conditioners, they're not the only products the companies are manufacturing.The Stockholm International Peace Research Institut…
Minutes after Tate Jolly arrived at the diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, a mortar hit the compound where an ambassador and another American had been killed and dozens more were trapped.The Marine gunnery sergeant was one of only two U.S. t…
Trump had one question when it came to the War in Afghanistan, according to journalist Bob Woodward's 2018 book Fear: Trump in the White House: "What the f*ck are we doing there?" And he didn't just want to know what the generals though…
The Commander-in-Chief will allow military academy athletes who excel on the field to go pro before they have to repay their service on the battlefields, according to a May 6, 2019 statement President Trump made from the White House Rose Garden. Tru…
The fantasy genre has captured the imagination of millions around the world. The middle ages are romanticized with images of knights bending the knee to serve their King or Queen on and off the battlefield. Historically, the rank came wit…
Counting down the last days of a deployment while standing post is a feeling universally felt by service members past and present. However, not all are able to move onto greener pastures. Unlucky souls that are caught in the gears of war …
Unconventional warfare is necessarily a messy business. It entails finding the enemies of our enemies and convincing them to fight our mutual foes, even if we're not necessarily friends. It reduces America's risk in blood, but it also means our na…
Although we're not always keen to admit it, the way we see the world and how we function in it tends to be largely informed by the pop-culture we consume along the way. The movies and TV shows we watch as kids not only help us to perceive a world b…
World War I pilots began by simply waving at each other in flight, greeting their adversary as each pilot headed to his own reconnaissance mission. But as World War I quickly became brutal—and the pilots themselves saw friends die on the ground by…
The "boat people," as they came to be known, are an oft-forgotten footnote at the end of the Vietnam War. In the years following the U.S. withdrawal and the subsequent fall of South Vietnam to the Communist north, refugees packed ships leaving the…
The Civil War ironclad USS Indianola was rushed into the war, guarding Cincinnati in 1862 before she was even complete. But at the start of 1863, she was cutting through Confederate defenses on the Red River to support Maj. Gen. Nathaniel B…