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There's nothing more irritating to troops and veterans than sitting down and watching a military film only to be distracted by inaccuracies. We're not just talking about uniform infractions or other minor goofs — everyone makes mistakes. Sometim…
In a small county in Northern Alabama, there's a town named for Major Payne. It's not named after the hilarious, quotable 1995 movie starring Damon Wayans. It's named for a little-known U.S. Army officer who was stationed in the area in the 1830s…
Zippos and American warfighters go hand-in-hand. If you watch a movie and see troops lighting up a cigarette, you'll probably notice that Zippo in their hand. Search-and-destroy missions in the Vietnam War were often referred to as "Zippo m…
It's probably the most exciting moment of any football game — and it doesn't matter if the game is on a Friday, Saturday, or a Sunday. One team is down six or seven points and they're making the drive across the field in the fourth quarter with…
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he expects to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New York amid concerns expressed by Washington over Moscow's plans to supply Syria with the S-300 surface-to-air missile system.Pompeo…
The tiny mountainous country of Switzerland has been in a state of "perpetual neutrality" since the major European powers of the time declared it as such during the Congress of Vienna after the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815.Why did the…
It's sometimes hard to remember that World War II wasn't actually a single, globe-spanning conflict. It was really about a dozen smaller conflicts that had all been openly fought (or at least simmering) in the months and years leading up to the Ge…
The winter of 1777 was disastrous. The British had successfully retaken many key locations in the 13 colonies and General Washington's men were left out in the cold of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Morale was at an all-time low and conditions were so…
Comfort is one of the last things in mind when the U.S. Navy designs a submarine. There's little room to walk around, restrooms and showers are kept as cramped as possible to make room for ordnance and mechanics, and the perpetual lack of sunlight …
During the Vietnam War, all too often the chaos of battle found Allied forces trapped and facing annihilation in hostile territory. The situation called for courageous men to rise above their fears and carry out some of the deadliest missions in the…
On August 19, 1941, a British bomber taking part in a raid against Germany flew over a prisoner of war camp in St. Omer, France and dropped its lightest — but possibly most historic — payload of the war: a wooden case filled with bandages, socks…
Russia has positioned a considerable naval armada in the Mediterranean near Syria after accusing the US of plotting a false-flag chemical-weapons attack in rebel-held areas — and it looks as if it's preparing for war with the US.A Russian …
At the 58 BC Battle of Vosges, Julius Caesar was surrounded. He had to force the Germanic army under Ariovistus into combat because the German was content to starve the Romans out. Cut off from supplies, Caesar's legions may not last long enough to…
Gemini 3 was the first American space mission to be crewed by more than one astronaut. Gemini 3 performed the first orbital maneuver ever by shifting its orbit mid-flight. This breakthrough performance also showed that a re-entry vehicle could chang…
In 1987, singer David Bowie played a concert in West Berlin, near the Reichstag. The performance was so loud, a massive crowd gathered on the East side of the nearby Berlin Wall to better hear his performance. He could hear the East Germans…
Generals "rediscover" vertical envelopment every few years, and even fairly casual followers of military news are sure to have heard the phrase. Even still, it's a fairly wonky term that plenty of folks, even regular readers, military game player…
As if civilian fashion statements couldn't be any more incomprehensible, Urban Outfitters has planted its own ludicrous flag into the fashion world with their newest accessory: a
When America entered World War I, it brought more radical changes than just fresh troops and a huge manufacturing base. It also introduced novel tactics in the fight against venereal disease — the war for infantrymen's penises.
There is no gift more uniquely Afghan than something made of the mineral lapis lazuli. Since the dawn of human civilization, nowhere was the powerful blue rock more plentiful than in this now-war-torn country. The history of using this stone in jewe…
For the ten days immediately after you graduate Marine Corps boot camp, you'll feel like the world's biggest badass. That brief high comes to a crashing halt when you report to the School of Infantry. If you're a poor crayon-eater who signed an i…