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By the 1950s, the Cold War was in full swing, and the Soviets appeared to have an edge in fighter plane technology. The USSR debuted a new plane, the MiG-15. This new fighter had a design that no one had yet seen flying. Its swept-back wingspan allo…
The trap bar deadlift is crushing soldiers. It's a completely new element of any PT test for the armed forces. Strength hasn't been tested in a three rep max before, let alone all the other novel elements of the new ACFT.I'm not so …
It was a small airbase on the border with Cambodia. It bordered a town of 6,000 that survived on the proceeds of local rubber plantations. The airbase was guarded by a few hundred South Vietnamese regulars supported by 11 U.S. Army Special Forces so…
The F-111 Aardvark didn't have a lot of air-to-air kills – it just wasn't designed to be in aerial combat. It was a supersonic nuclear bomber and recon plane. But a fighter it was not. What it did have was an electronic warfare variant that coul…
On Chartres Street in New Orleans' French Quarter, you can find the best muffuletta sandwich and the best Pimm's Cup cocktail at a place called Napoleon House – so named because it was going to be the residence of L'Empereur – just as soon as…
Before World War II, the U.S. military wasn't much to look at. Even as the Roosevelt Administration began to prepare for the war, switching on the "arsenal of democracy" and instituting a peacetime draft, it wasn't enough to deter the Japanese f…
When Erich "Bubi" Hartmann died in 1993, he was still the most successful fighter pilot in the history of aerial warfare. With an astonishing 352 kills, his record is all but assured until World War III comes around. He's not the only former Nazi…
Fastest jet in the world? That's easy. Most people know it's the SR-71, the reconnaissance plane so fast it could outrun missiles. But the fastest fighter jet? Well, the Soviets created a fighter jet to chase down the SR-71 Blackbird, and…
As if Robert Rudolph Remus wasn't already a badass wrestling name on its own, upon becoming one of the now-WWE's most beloved Superstars, Remus chose the stage name "Sergeant Slaughter." It was appropriate at the time, even wearing his character…
It wouldn't do much good for a wounded World War I veteran trying to reintegrate into society to have a passersby gasp in shock and horror every time they saw him. The town of Sidcup in England attempted to ameliorate this shocked, audible response…
Destroyers, in general, don't get as much love as they deserve for their contribution to World War II. The USS Aylwin is not different, even though her crew managed to do what few others could, which was to take the fight to the sucker-pun…
Roland Emmerich is the writer and director behind some of the most badass military military movies of our time. He loves to combine state of the art computer graphics with amazing battle sequences. You can thank him for the dogfights in Independ…
Forbes recognizes Matt Damon as one of the most bankable stars, the world sees him as a philanthropist, and the Hollywood scene noticed him as one of the most successful actors of all time. He is also involved in screenwriting and producing. Howeve…
There's something to be said for aggressively pursuing the job you want. For British Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson, that opportunity came at the Battle of Copenhagen when the famous admiral disobeyed the orders of a less-famous, less successful one …
When Robert E. Lee left the Union Army to command the Army of Northern Virginia, he was just a colonel – a far cry from being the military leader the Confederate forces needed him to be. Despite his promotion in the army of the Confederacy and his…
This article was sponsored by Midway, in theaters November 8!In 1942, a Japanese fleet of almost 100 ships, led by the architect of t…
"If it's stupid and it works, it isn't stupid," is how the old saying goes. Though it isn't said much anymore, the meaning behind it still rings true – and has for generations. A tactic that seems so stupid can be useful to the right mind. It…
The former special operators who responded to the 2012 Benghazi attacks on the U.S. State Department in Libya didn't hesitate, they just reacted. They aren't alone. People in the military are famously trained to "move with a sense of purpose" at…
You may never have heard of Basil Zaharoff. He's not the Lord of War depicted by Nic Cage in the 2005 film; Zaharoff was actually around much, much earlier. Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, the "Lord of War" the Nic Cage movie is based on, has no…
As you may or may not know, the U.S. state of Kansas isn't exactly a coastal state. The body of water it does have access to is the Mississippi River System and its tributaries, namely the Missouri River. It turns out the mighty river system that o…