4 reasons every service member should camp on an uninhabited island
When an ordinary citizen thinks about camping, what comes to mind is the expeditions and amount of fun they will have. For troops, on the other hand, it is more…
That time a warship pretended to be an island
Sometimes in life, the guy with the drunken, so-crazy-it-just-might-work ideas hits one out of the park and saves the day. This is clearly what happened in 1942 aboard the HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, the last Dutch warship standing after the <…
What we can learn about survival from stranded animals on deserted islands
Marines train for every clime and place. Most of the time troops are deployed to the harshest environments on earth. However, sometimes we get sent somewhere nice such as an…
A British Isle and the Netherlands went to war for 335 years and no one died
The best kind of war is the rare kind where no one gets hurt. Leave it to the Netherlands to fight that kind of war. Back in 1651, England was…
The real reason the Japanese invasion of Singapore was a disaster
In February 1942, the war in the Pacific came to British-controlled Singapore. The Japanese were ready to assault one of the British Empire’s most significant military bases and capture the…
The Air Force is fixing up a base that could keep an eye on Russia
US airmen ventured north to the island of Jan Mayen in the Norwegian Sea in November to survey the isolated island’s airfield.
Members of the 435th Contingency Response Squadron “assessed runway surfaces, glideslope obstructions and firing c…
One American ally is trying to make another a literal island
A senior Saudi official seemed to confirm that Saudi Arabia is moving forward with ambitious plans to turn rival nation Qatar into an island.
“I am impatiently waiting for details on the implementation of the Salwa island project, a great, hi…