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On Sept. 1, 1939, the Nazi war machine rolled into Poland, touching off World War II in Europe. Nazi propaganda would have the world believe Polish cavalry were intentionally charging Nazi tanks, thinking they were no more than the toothless dummies…
Iran just conducted a massive rapid deployment exercise that consisted of 12,000 coordinated troops – the Islamic Republic was saying to the world that any attackers would face a "crushing blow." Over two days, Iran's regular military forces us…
The ground war of Desert Storm lasted all of 100 hours. After giving Saddam Hussein's Iraqi Army the Noah's Ark treatment and raining death on them for 40 days and 40 nights, the Army and Marines very swiftly moved in and expelled the entire army …
The 'Rambo' series didn't start off with John Rambo as a one-man Army, hell-bent on killing anyone who stood between him and his mission. But that's what it turned out to be. And now few action movie images are more iconic than Rambo tightening …
After a century, World War I is finally getting the treatment in American cinema it so richly deserves. While some of the best war movies were World War I movies, Paths of Glory, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Lawrence of …
Remember the collective crushing disappointment we all felt as we got settled in to watch Pearl Harbor in 2001, expecting a Saving Private Ryan-level war movie on a grander scale and suddenly realizing it was a love story and that …
When the Germans wanted to shell Paris during World War I, they knew exactly what they were doing. The only problem was the Germans just couldn't quite break through to get Paris in their artillery crosshairs. So they did what any German might do: …
Most of us live a sedentary lifestyle that does not promote good posture. Right now, I'm in a terrible postural position, typing this very sentence. That's pretty meta.The answer we most often hear is that
Long before Britney started her Las Vegas residency at the Planet Hollywood Casino, visitors and residents got their nightly entertainment elsewhere – likely from a member of the Rat Pack but every so often, they would get a thrill watching the Un…
John Rambo was almost any other throwaway movie veteran. But luckily for the character – and fans of the Rambo series – the script for First Blood was in the hands of Sylvester Stallone. For Sly, something felt a little off abo…
ISIS talks a big game in posting propaganda videos on the internet, especially at the height of its power in 2014 - 2015. But one GoPro slamcam video, captured by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and posted to YouTube shows, ISIS fighters ar…
Do you have that buddy who scratches messages into his M4 rounds? Or maybe you're the sailor who Sharpies "This one's for you" onto JDAMs destined for a flight over the Gulf. Regardless, it turns out that you're part of a tradition that dates b…
McDonnell Douglas, the manufacturer of the F-15 Eagle, knew it had a winner on its hands with the plane. It was the first U.S. fighter with greater engine thrust than weight, allowing it to accelerate vertically like a rocket. And it was highly mane…
It may seem like attempted genocide on an international scale would have been enough for the Nazis and their dreams of racial purity. But they were proactive ethno-nationalists who were just as interested in extra-marital breeding and kidnapping as …
If you are asking any variation of "should I keep training even with (XYZ) injury or condition?" The answer is yes.Then nuance ensues. You can't necessarily keep training how you were before, and you definitely shouldn't be training at th…
When We Are The Mighty sat down with Sylvester Stallone, Sly revealed some truly astonishing things about one of action movie history's most beloved characters: John Rambo. Most of us blacked out when Stallone revealed that Rambo didn't originally…
There's skydiving, and then there's Army skydiving. Their origins began in the Cold War when the Soviet Union was dominating the emerging skydiving sport. In 1959, 19 Airborne soldiers began competing at the international level, and by 1961…
A single man earned the nickname "wilderness ninja" after he successfully evaded more than 1,000 uniformed police officers, helicopters, and vehicles in Pennsylvania – not unlike the character of John Rambo in the movie First Blood. Unl…
Listen, condoms will save your life. You may not believe it, but the condom is a multipurpose force multiplier that does more than protect one's little trooper from NBC threats during unarmed combat. The idea of having condoms isn't even all that …
The Brimstone missile is Europe's equivalent of the Hellfire missile. Like the Hellfire, it's designed to take out tanks and other armored targets, it can be fired with different seeker and warheads, and it's battle-tested, especially in the Midd…