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The Taliban Five are not the reigning champions of Afghanistan's Got Talent. They are five long-term prisoners held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a controversial move, the Obama administration released the five in exch…

Urban legends, old wives tales, myths, and folklore all come from somewhere. In the 20th century, the military was an important facet in the lives of many, especially during WWII and the Cold War years. Some of the lore was bound to find its way int…

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…

WorkSafeBC is the name of the Worker's Compensation Board of the Canadian province of British Columbia, covering 2.3 million Canadian workers. The Board is responsible for processing claims, complaints, an…

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)

The U.S. and South Korean military just reminded North Korea why it should behave. Filmed in mid-August at Seungjin Training Field, South Korea, during Integrated Live Fire Exercise 2015, this video shows the massive firepower and capabil…

  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. …

There are bad guard details, horrible guard details, and then guard details where you and the bulk of your regiment are ordered to guard caves filled with bat shit. …

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…