Cooperative Threat Reduction Program — You want to do WHAT for Russia?
Russia and its nukes and chemical weapons “a brand new problem in those days – brand new to history, really, requiring new thought,” Carter said.
Military History
Declassified: U.S. Military’s Secret Cold War Space Project Revealed
We were doing something that was exciting and important. We’re going to also do something very important for national security. We are going to go look behind the Iron Curtain … defend the nation while doing the exciting things of manned spaceflight.
Bill Seeks to Recognize the OSS, Predecessor to the CIA
A bill making its way through the U.S. Congress is seeking to bestow Congressional Gold Medal status on the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the World War II predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM). On June 13, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 69 creating […]
Yesteryear’s Suicide Bombers : Japan’s Ohka Model 11, “Cherry Blossom”
During WWII, as the Imperial Japanese suicide pilots boarded their aircraft, they were told that they were honorable and were to be reward . . . While American service-members provided these pilots with a more realistic title – Baka, Japanese for “fool” or “idiot.”
Special Forces Interceptor, WP-18 : The World’s Fastest Naval Vessel
The WP-18 can be fitted out with a retractable remote weapons mount with a 30mm cannon. Uniquely for this type of craft, small SAM or SSM launchers in the bow. Two retractable Rheinmetall ROSY (Rapid Obscuring System) soft-kill systems are also carried in the bow. A retractable EO mast is also fitted.
‘Lone Survivor’ Uncovered: The Ambush at Sawtalo Sar
How much of Marcus Luttrell’s “Lone Survivor is fact, and how much is fiction?
The Incredible Tale of Two SEALs Bound by Blood and the Medal of Honor
Norris refused to abandon the downed pilots, even after initial failure, and went behind enemy lines over and over again, using daring, subterfuge, and ingenuity to execute his mission.
WWII Through an Army Surgeon’s Eyes
The Second Auxiliary Surgical Group arrived in Northern Africa shortly behind the invading force of Operation Torch during World War II. They were a group of surgical teams without nurses and without a headquarters, and therefore without consistent direction or organization. Paul A. Kennedy, M.D., a surgeon in a mobile general surgical team, was by turns […]
D-Day Anniversary: The day we knew we were going to win
The United States faces daunting international challenges. Uncertain strategic objectives, questionable alliances, and fuzzy policy goals make it seem as though we are spread too thin everywhere to be effective anywhere. It seems that this is new to our times—that our challenges were much simpler in other eras—but during the chaotic years of World War […]
Spoils of War: Black market robust for military artifacts stolen from public displays
In the predawn hours of May 1, thieves towed away a World War I-era cannon from outside the Veterans Memorial Hall in Richmond, Calif. — where the artillery piece had stood for 70 years — and later sold it to an unsuspecting buyer. It was an audacious caper, but not an uncommon one. American war […]
Watch: Unnarrated Original D-day Footage – 72nd D-Day Liberation of Normandy Observed
“The allied army, more specifically, the American Army, they came to liberate, not to conquer,” van den Brink said. “That’s what it says in the Coleville cemetery, where 10,000 Americans are resting forever.
Nazi History Hunters Say Hitler’s Secret Nuclear Bombs Lie Under Thuringian Forest
They hunt for jewels and gold, the long-hidden plunder of Nazi lore. Now hobby historians in Germany believe they have an urgent case of potentially catastrophic proportions — secret nuclear bombs. Deep inside the Thuringian Forest, 70-year-old Peter Lohr and two friends have been scanning the surface with “earth radar” and “geomagnetic” technology after one […]
