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What would have happened if a Marine Expeditionary Unit found themselves up against the combined strength of the Roman Empire? Encyclopedia writer and two-time "Jeopardy!" winner James Erwin, who writes on Reddit as Prufrock451, may have the ans…
Simo Häyhä, also known as "The White Death," was a Finnish sniper who is credited with killing more than 500 enemy troops within 100 days during the Winter War against the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1940. Häyhä accomplished this…
When Master Sgt. Mike Maroney was a staff sergeant he rescued 3-year-old LeShay Brown a few days after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005. An Air Force Combat Photographer happened to be on the mission, and snapped a now-iconic photo. …
The American militia movement had been mostly dormant during the Bush Administration, but the election of Barack Obama gave it new life - and thousands of new members. There are currently hundreds of small local militias in the US, groups of "patri…
By 2020, the U.S. Air Force expects to have "directed energy combat weapons pods" on its jets. During the Air Force Association Air & Space conference, the Air Force General with the most Air Force name ever, Gen. Hawk Carlisle, said "I beli…
Nuclear bombs are the most powerful weapons ever devised.
Taking a page from the 2006 self-help book The Secret, the United States Air Force believes saying good things about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will make them come true. In an eight-page For Official Use Only (FOUO)
With the use of a massive ship and a cover story involving billionaire Howard Hughes, the CIA pulled off one of the most epic heists of the Cold War during the 1970s. The story begins in 1968, with the sinking of a Soviet subma…
Almost 30 years after being convicted for espionage, Jonathan Jay Pollard will be eligible for parole in November 2015 — and the U.S.
Breakthrough research from the University of California-San Diego could take the US military one step closer towards having cloaked aircraft and drones. …
A video uploaded to YouTube earlier this week purportedly shows what happens when a Russian RPG-7 (rocket-propelled grenade) is fired at 45 sheets of bulletproof glass, me…
The world's fastest manned planes are nothing short of engineering marvels. Capable of flitting through the air at multiple times the speed of sound, these planes take the pilot to the fringe of science fiction. Although a number …
With an emphasis on versatility, range, and light weight, many modern firearms look nothing like guns of decades past. In fact, some look like they are futuristic weapons sent from centuries ahead of us, with their odd angles, accessories, and round…
Col. Robert A. Hefford was a decorated pilot in Vietnam who received Silver Stars for shielding troops with his helicopter on two occasions and a Distinguished Flying Cross for flying into heavy resistance in another firefight.
Last week, the Marine Corps released a summary of results on a nine month study on gender-integrated units in combat situations. …
Russian military inventions tend toward the brutally practical: tanks, planes, and guns that are cheap and easy to produce. But they were also known for experimenting with wacky, expensive concepts. Here are some of their crazier inventions:
The Nazi occupiers in the Netherlands were fed up with Dutch resistance movements by late 1944. For five years, the Dutch had spied, sabotaged, and smuggled Jewish refugees and Allied aircrews. But really pushed the Germans over the edge was a rail…
