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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…
The NBA and China are locked in an escalating feud sparked by a tweet that voiced support for protests in Hong Kong. For over 18 weeks, millions of people in Hong Kong have taken to the streets for increasingly violent protests. Initially, pr…
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…
The days following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 were a strange time for Americans. For the first time in most people's lives, political divisions disappeared. Daily life became anything but routine, even if you lived far from Ground Zero. Even Ame…
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…
Riddle me this: Who would make a great contemporary Batman villain? That's right! The dude from Looper who was also pretty great in nearly everything he's been in; Paul Dano.Though Jonah Hill was heavily rumored to play the Riddler…
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…
In the military, sometimes things just get lost in transit. Gear goes adrift, paperwork gets filed wrong, and soldiers with no training in parachuting from a perfectly good airplane end up getting thrown out of a perfectly good airplane. It was boun…
The airmen of the United States have always been at the fore of airpower. But that didn't start with the world wars or even the test pilots of the Cold War. The U.S. is the original home of powered flight, of naval aviation, and of aircraft innovat…
Veterans of the war in Afghanistan can tell you the country is absolutely riddled with land mines of all kinds. The country has experienced nonstop war and civil strife since the 1979 Soviet Invasion and ever since, land mines have been a constant h…
The United States Air Force needs aggressor aircraft. There is no geopolitical adversary for the United States quite like Russia and its Soviet-built airplanes. American combat crews need to train against someone, and the best we can get comes in th…
In the days before naval aviation and submarines, the battleship was the unchallenged king of the seas. Building a bigger and better ship with more and bigger guns was basically the order of the day, and it continued all the way up until the days be…
We're getting a little excited here. An out-of-left-field rumor is making the rounds that Michael Keaton might play Bruce Wayne again in the strangest way possible. That's right, your favorite Batman and star of "Mr. Mom" might once aga…
Growing up, my stepdad kept a series of paperback books high up on the shelf. They were novels by an author named John MacDonald with distinctive color-based titles like The Green Ripper and The Scarlet Ruse. They featured a unique sort of private …