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Navy officer Edward King and the rest of America's Lightweight Men's Four Rowing Team came in 10th in the Rio Olympics on Aug. 11. King is a

In 2013, the Obama Administration drafted what became known at "the Playbook," an 18-page drone strike policy guideline laying out how the President orders a targeted killing of an enemy combatant abroad. A few days ago,

The SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest and highest-flying production aircraft ever to exist. It holds all of the world's airspeed and altitude records, even after its retirement from the Air Force in the late 1990s. It's an incredible acco…

It was one of the most dangerous and daring raids of World War II, and it resulted in the most medals of honor bestowed on America's airmen from any battle in any war. In the summer of 1943, the U.S. Army Air Force launched the audaciou…

Christopher Nolan has now applied his moody and precise visual style on World War II. The "Inception" and "The Dark Knight" director tells the story of the "Miracle at Dunkirk," a large-scale evacuation that saved approximately 338,000 Allied …

Along with announcing Aug. 5 that they would soon be ditching the blue digital camouflage Navy Working Uniform Type I, th…

Revolutions are generally hard-fought, brutal affairs involving rebels taking on conventional military forces. When Philippe Bunau-Varilla, a French businessman and engineer with commercial interests in Panama's independence, went lookin…

In 1971, Pakistan launched a preemptive air strike against 11 Indian airbases, touching off that year's Indo-Pakistani War. The air attacks failed but dragged India into Bangladesh's (then called East Pakistan) Independence War from Pakistan. The…

Air Force pilot Capt. Brian Udell is one of the only pilots in history to survive after ejecting from a fighter at supersonic speeds. The force of the air moving at more than 768 mph on his body was so strong that it nearly killed him. …

A former Pentagon official says the U.S. spends $20.2 billion a year on air conditioning for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan – the same amou…

The Navy announced Aug. 4 that its much-maligned blue digital camouflage uniform will be removed from service and replaced with the Naval Working Uniform Type III, a digital woodland camouflage pattern commonly worn by SEALs and other Navy expediti…

A top Pentagon spokesman said Aug. 3 that U.S. and coalition pressure against the ISIS stronghold in Mosul, Iraq, has taken such a toll on militant commanders that they've cut off most communications from the city, including Internet access for ci…

With the latest dustup over comments allegedly made by Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump questioning America's nuclear weapons use rationale, WATM thought it would be worth looking into how popping off a couple nukes on, say, ISIS mig…

Did the VA read anything I submitted to them? Are these outside medical exams a scam? Who is willing to fight for me?

Countries that border the Pacific are taking part in a massive exercise called "Rim of the Pacific" or "RIMPAC." Dozens of ships, hundreds of aircraft, and thousands of people are practicing their warfighting skills in RIMPAC. Militar…

It's hard to imagine a time when the Marine Corps made black troops drill on separate fields, but that's how it was for African-American leathernecks who were preparing to fight during World War II. Dubbed the "Montford Point Marines"…