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On July 9th, 1962 the United States launched a Thor rocket armed with a W49 thermonuclear warhead to an altitude of nearly two hundred and fifty miles and detonated it. It took thirteen minutes for the missile to reach its predesignated altitude before the 1.45 megaton explosion illuminated the night sky for hundreds of miles […]
The United States military is arguably the most formidable fighting force ever assembled in the history of the world. However, since the beginning of the war on terrorism and specifically over the past eight years of this Administration, it has increasingly drifted away from its core mission of defending our nation and more towards nation-building, […]
In July of 1947, something fell from the sky and crash landed in Mack Brazel’s ranch, just northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. According to the official story, it was an experimental weather balloon. If you listen to the long list of conspiracy theories surrounding the event, it was a spaceship from another world, crewed by […]
I met a man once that fought in the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. He was a small man, and looked even smaller because his age prevented him from standing completely upright. He wore thick glasses that rested across a crooked nose and a deep purple scar on his cheek. We exchanged greetings and I […]
To all the men who hold the title United States Marine, Happy Birthday! Today is a time for Marine veterans and Active Duty Marines to reflect on our history and our purpose. Every year when November 10th rolls around, I watch the above video to remind me of where I came from when I made the […]
The Italian military parachuting remembers the November 9 as one of the most tragic days of its entire history. On that dreadful day a Royal Air Force’s Hercules C-130 crashed at the sandbanks of Meloria, a few kilometers from Livorno, bringing with them the lives of six british Airmen and 46 paratroopers of Folgore Brigade. […]
Even though the Cold War is in our rear view mirror, oppression of people in many parts of the world is still real. A quarter century later we have witnessed the atrocities in Iraq (Saddam Hussein), Balkan Region (Slobodan Milosevic), 9/11 attacks, Afghanistan (Al Qaeda terrorists and the Taliban), and now Syria/Iraq Daesh (ISIL), and a resurgent Russia seeks to instigate a Cold War 2.0.
At the beginning of World War II, the United States was the only nation that equipped its soldiers with semi-automatic rifles as their standard issue service rifle — in this case, the M1 Garand. These semi-automatic rifles provided greater firepower as they did not require the rifleman to manually cycle the weapon’s action as with earlier […]
The cold war brought about some incredible technological advancements on both American and Soviet fronts. Things that make our way of life today possible were once inventions intended to keep us one step ahead of the reds. Indeed, we have our decades long staring match with communism to thank for things like Dynamic Random Access […]
In February 1945, a small group of personnel assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime spy agency, scrambled to prepare for a particularly risky mission: inserting a team of agents deep behind Nazi lines with the goal of gleaning crucial enemy information. For a host of reasons, the proposed operation seemed like a suicide mission. […]
Secrets and spies The word ‘propaganda’ might suggest some form of misinformation – yet in boosting morale during World War Two, the British government had to maintain a careful balancing act. While employing a range of psychological tricks, they had to be seen to be as truthful as possible. “The Ministry of Information (MOI) had […]
High on the foreboding Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia, within the Arctic Circle, lies an incredible Soviet submarine graveyard near the Russian naval base of Olenya Bay. Attached to the closed town of Gadzhiyevo in Murmansk Oblast, the base represents one of the most bleak naval facilities on the planet, home to abandoned Cold War-era […]
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