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Former Georgetown grad Matthew VanDyke is fighting ISIS the only way he knows how — through a grassroots military training initiative he calls Sons of Liberty International (SOLI). The self-made nonprofit aims to equip the Christian nor…
It would've taken one launch officer who wasn't right in the head to trigger a nuclear war and start World War III. For nearly two decades, the nuclear launch code was "000000000000," according to Dr. Bruce G. Blair in his 2004 article "Keeping…
Being the new guy in a squad is just something every soldier has to go through. They work hard, prove themselves, and earn a little respect and rank as fast as they can. Until they do, junior soldiers put up with these 6 problems.
Take off your tin-foil hats for a second, because sometimes an insane-sounding conspiracy theory actually turns out to be true. From the government making up an enemy attack to justify war to "mind control" experiments, some stories are hard to be…
The best World War 2 movies remind us that perhaps no single event has had a greater impact on the future of filmmaking than World War II. It arrived at the dawn of a new era in glossy, professional mainstream filmmaking, and it affected literally e…
The Army was involved in some weird experiments during the 1950s and '60s. Some of the weirdest took place at Edgewood Arsenal, Md., where the military tested chemicals …
Sailing saved Ronnie Simpson's life. He was an 18 year old high school senior in Atlanta, Georgia when the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began in March 2003. Drawn to service by the events of September 11, Ronnie joined the Marine Corps Infantry the da…
A second data breach allowing hackers to acquire the security clearance information of 14 million federal employees could compromise the success and safety of American i…
Take a look at our list of the top 10 American Civil War movies!
Did the retired Marine general say these things or did the rapper say these things? On the surface, the two have nothing in common. The rapper-actor out of Queens, NY started his career selling drugs at age 12 during the crack epidemic. O…
Compared to previous American conflicts U.S. military medicine drastically reduced the number deaths due to injury during the w…
Russia is drastically stepping up its airborne exercises this summer, but its paratrooper training units have one battalion that stands …
DARPA wants Navy SEALs to be more seal-like, so they invented PowerSwim. "Technically it's called an oscillating foil propulsion device," DARPA program manager Jay Lowell says, in a video from DARPA TV. "Th…
In May 1962, four soldiers walked into a makeshift communications outpost outfitted with maps, food, medicine, and a chemical toilet. For the next 72 hours, the men would attempt to operate as a normal communications team while cameras rolled. Oh, …
A new data-driven video produced by Neil Halloran illustrates the massive number of fatalities of Second World War like never before. The video, which was released on Memorial Day, "uses cinematic data visualization techniques to explo…
