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You're on the asteroid's surface, sucking down stale air from your rapidly emptying air tanks with the knowledge that you have to take them out now or the space terrorists are going to win.How do you want the oil paintings and hologram disp…
Space Force shirts are hard to come by. All the other branches have recruiting offices filled with their lousy shirts, but you don't want their second-rate swag. You want Space Force shirts of combed and ring-spun cotton made up of carbon that was …
You've got the right socks for a ruck march, the right boots for a day at sea, and the pants for ejecting out of a jet and plummeting through a cloud-churned sky as aircrafts buzz past you trading bullets (brown pants, you need brown ones).B…
The "Night Wolves" have come to Slovakia and the locals are not happy about it. Also known in Eastern Europe as "Putin's Angels," the group is a biker gang with ties to the Kremlin. Their arrival in the country is not a welcome sight, as their …
You don't need some fancy-pants catalog writer telling you what's so great about Gunny, the emotionally stunted star of his own cartoon who's so awesome that he relegated the soft part of himself to a single blood vessel that pulses on his neck a…
Saudi Arabia's state media on Aug 6, 2018, tweeted a graphic appearing to show an Air Canada airliner heading toward the Toronto skyline in a way that recalled the September 11, 2001, terrorist hijackings of airliners that struck the Twin Towers an…
The Trump administration on Aug 6, 2018, announced it would reinstate sanctions on Tehran after the US withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal — and Iran has made no shortage of vitriolic threats about what it may do in response.Beginning Aug 7…
Ah, football. Nothing's sweeter than getting everyone together to drink beer, eat hot dogs, watch sports, and look at corporate slogans painted on a 250-foot weapon of war that floats over them just like it floated over Nazi and Japanese submarines…
In August, 1995, a series of events occurred that would just seem implausible today. A Taliban MiG fighter intercepted a Russian Airstan Ilyushin Il-76TD, forcing it to land at Kandahar International Airport in the middle of a nationwide Civil War. …
Perhaps unthinkable as early as just a year ago, diplomats from the United States met with representatives of the Afghan Taliban to discuss terms for ending the 17-year long conflict in Afghanistan. It all began when Afghan government under Ashraf G…
There are some planes that hang onto service even though time and technology have long passed them by. One of these planes, which first flew in 1947, is something that could've once been considered state-of-the-art... in 1918.And yet, someho…
The U.S. Air Force recently awarded a $96-million contract to Raytheon to produce …
After a handful of quiet days in President Donald Trump's trade war, it looks as if a further escalation may be on its way following reports that another round of tariffs on China could be announced imminently and a statement from the Chinese gover…
In 1871, an American fleet led by a diplomatic and merchant ship entered Korean waters and were fired upon by antiquated shore batteries, leading to a battle where 650 Marines and sailors landed on one of the island and fought against Korean personn…
The US Air Force is now accelerating a massive AI push to cyber-harden networks, improve weapons systems, and transform functions of large combat air platforms such as the B-2, F-15 and F-35, service officials said."The Air Force has over 60…
When you think of amphibious operations, you probably think of troops storming beaches at Normandy or one of the many of coral atolls in the Pacific. Troops would ride landing craft to dislodge the enemy from their positions — often speeding direc…
We've all seen the famous painting, Spirit of '76. In it, a young Revolutionary War drummer boy is marching alongside two other musicians. The boy is in his Continental Army uniform, looking up to an older drummer who is not in uniform. …
The C-47 Skytrain is arguably one of the greatest planes of all time. When you look at the complete picture surrounding this aircraft — how many were built, how many still fly, and the effect they had on a war — one could argue that the C-47 is …
Legendary director Frank Capra is perhaps best known for timeless classics, It's A Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. But his other signature work — done during World War II — was the series of Why We Fight
Nothing screams Americana more than rock and roll, blue jeans, and the toughness of our fighting men and women. If you mix them all together, you get the Navy SEALs who fought in the jungles of Vietnam. They were unquestionably rugged, they were pro…