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Working dogs are an integral part of modern military life, but dogs have been accompanying humans into combat since before recorded history. Alexander the Great's dog, Peritas, 

A Ukrainian tank crew fighting Russian-backed separatists created a video diary of their experiences. The video doesn't show any up-close combat, but it does feature the world's most lethal selfie stick:

[brid video="115866" player="7965" title="ATM A War interview with Tobias"]'A War,' directed by Tobias Lindholm, is a Danish film nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this year. The movie follows Danish Army infantry comman…

ISIS always needs new women to marry off to jihadist fighters and they've found a new tactic, according to CNN. Recruiters of women are using tumblr blogs, Instagram feeds, and other social media outlets to spread images of handsome men …

The guys over at the Smithsonian Channel war-gamed how an Apache could take down a dragon because curating a museum apparently gets boring. The dragon in their model is straight out of European mythology with huge wings, thick armor, and …

A veteran of the United States Air Force is accused of attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. Tairod Pugh is  a 4…

You can't have a story about the Soviet Union without mentioning the KGB.

The USS West Virginia was one of the hardest hit ships at Pearl Harbor but rose from the ashes to destroy Japanese forces in the years after that surprise attack.

Five years into the Syrian Civil War, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced its readiness to send ground troops into Syria to fight Islamic State forces. …

"Rambo" is one of the most recognizable military movie series of all time. The indestructible, bow-wielding Special Forces soldier was adapted for video games, comic books, anim…

[brid video="115870" player="7965" title="VGR Women in Combat Roles"]WATM hosted groups of veterans to answer several questions about their time in the military. The vets kept it real when responding to topics ranging from relationships to r…

The Cold War prompted the space race, the nuclear arms race and other weapons races that yielded forward-thinking innovations like fixed-wing planes that can take off vertically—VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) — from any platform or sur…

An unknown sniper is killing the leadership of Daesh (as ISIS hates to be called) in Libya. According to the UK's Mirror, a mysterio…

Just one day after Nate Boyer entered the Guinness World Record book for the longest football long snap, former Texas Longhorn, Seattle Seahawk, and U.S. Army Green Beret Nate Boyer embark…

The Isonzo campaign, fought in present-day Slovenia from June 1915 to November 1917 between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is one of the bloodiest series of battles during World War I, yet is hardly remembered outside of the countries invo…

Here are 15 things sailors know all too well about shipboard life around Super Bowl Sunday: 1. For the week or so leading up to the game you challenge your buddies to "Madden" every day after work

While deployed to Iraq in 2007, the U.S. Army's then-Captain Matt Gallagher started a blog called Kaboom that quickly became very popular ... and controversial -- so controversial, in fact, that the Army shut it down. After he s…

Update: Pvt. Erika Lopez turned herself in to Army authorities Feb. 4 after reports of her desertion wen…

Ted Meyer is a Los Angeles-based artist, curator, and patient advocate who has been coloring the lives of those with traumatic injuries for 17 years with his project called "Scarred for Life: Mono-prints …

Over the years Hollywood has shed both positive and negative light on the military experience. While the biographical examples might face severe scrutiny over matters of accuracy, here are 8 fictional military characters who inarguably wouldn…