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You ever imagine the guts it takes to be an infantryman trying to kill a tank? Sure, we develop a new missile to make the job easier every few decades, but that still leaves a dude in 35 pounds of body armor going up against a 41-ton tank. And the i…

For the past 75 years, the French Senate has claimed Paris' lush Luxembourg Palace, former home of Marie de Medici, mother to King Louis XIII, as its home. During that entire time, rumors swirled about a large bust of Adolf Hitler, the man who once…

The newspaper Stars and Stripes has an interesting little niche in its place in American journalism. Wherever the Armed Forces of the United States may go, Stars and Stripes reporters might just go along with them. The idea of such a paper can be tr…

Napoleon at Jena. The Vietnamese at Dien Bien Phu. Washington's withdrawal from Long Island. What makes a military operation so perfectly complete that you can almost hear Shang Tsung himself say "Flawless Victory" in the back of your mind? A few…

On May 2, 2011, a Seattle-based school teacher shaved his face for the first time in a decade. It was one of those beard-growing events you hear about athletes doing or when people grow facial hair for a good cause. But the only thing special about …

The question that kept many a Cold Warrior awake at night was usually one of how to keep anyone in the chain of missile launch command from starting a nuclear war without considering the consequences, if they weren't 100 percent sure of a Soviet fi…

The U.S. Army hasn't really flown fixed-wing combat aircraft since the Army Air Forces became the Air Force in 1947. An agreement on U.S. military policy written in Key West in 1948 divvied up the roles of aircraft used by the United States for air…

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 …

What could you do with some tin cans, an old washing machine, sausage casings, and salt water? If you're Dr. Willem Kolff, you could replace a human kidney. The Netherlander spent his formative years studying medicine in the Netherlands, especially…

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 …

Everyone remembers Bob."Bob had bitch tits.""Six months ago, Bob's testicles were removed. Then hormone therapy. He developed bitch tits because his testosterone was too high and his body upped the estrogen..."Bob only made…

I'm on a foot fetish these days. Don't tell my family.Today's foot based installment is about perception vs. reality. It's about how your mind is constantly playing tricks on you even when you're doing your best to be truthful. It's abo…

Football is back! That means it's time for me to remind everyone about the best organization around, one that provides homes for America's wounded warriors,

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