Category: History

The concept of a militia is part of American history, but modern groups are taking on a new roles in the midst of overarching social unrest.

A massive series of under-ice tunnels capable of storing, transporting, and launching nuclear ballistic missiles, dubbed Project Iceworm.

“Tehran” centers around Tamar Rabinyan, an Israeli-raised spy sent into Iran to help coordinate an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear program.

In 1969, amid rising border clashes and growing unrest along the Soviet-Sino border, Soviet officials considered the use of nuclear weapons.

Tiger Force, a highly effective but also criticized U.S. SOF unit during the Vietnam War, aimed to “out-guerrilla the guerrillas.”

The Tribute in Light illuminates the sky above New York City in a somber yet beautiful memorial of the attacks on the World Trade Center. 

After the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 looking for weapons of mass destruction, American troops found a lot of bizarre things: toilets and guns made of gold, a Koran written in blood, and Saddam’s romance novel. Although they didn’t find any weapons of mass destruction, they did manage to find some weapons. Specifically, they […]

This article was written by Alex Hollings and originally published on Sandboxx. Kelly Johnson wasn’t the first man to build an airplane. Nor was he the first to push the limits of what an airplane could do. But few men have played a more vital role than Johnson in shaping mankind’s ascent into the skies. […]

Ah, the ubiquitous donut. The guilty pleasure is, at the same time, the most reviled snack by doctors and professional trainers because of its extreme fat content and beloved by people everywhere because, let’s face it, it tastes so damned good. Donuts in some form or another have been around forever. Archaeologists have dug up […]

In 1990 Saddam ordered his army to invade Kuwait and seize power. The U.S. and UN saw this as a violation of Kuwait’s sovereignty. In 1991, after a brief UN approval process, the U.S. and its coalition sprang into action. After a short engagement, they successfully stopped the Iraqi army and pushed them back across […]

In the early hours of December 20, 1989, 28 years ago, the United States began operations against Manuel Noriega and the Panamanian Defense Forces in Operation Just Cause. During the opening hours of the US operation, several US Special Operations units conducted operations to rescue American Kurt Muse from the notorious Modelo Prison, stop Noriega […]

Two hundred and forty-six years ago, the British Empire was reeling mad at the people of Massachusetts. And fed up with the hotheads from the Colonies, they were going to show all of them that the Crown had parliamentary authority over them and would reverse the trend of resistance coming from America.   In March of […]