A “Devil in Baggy Pants” – Paratrooper Takes Out 2 Tanks with His Bazooka in Market Garden – Awarded MoH
Truly heroic individuals, like police officers and firefighters, rush toward danger, not away from it. But in wartime, all personnel must head toward risk, making…
Sea King Helicopter Staff Exposed to Asbestos – Warnings Ignored
For decades, the dangers that asbestos poses to the human body have been well documented. However, it seems that the British Ministry of Defense may…
Fit Bits a New Military Security Nightmare
The modern mania for sharing information and uploading everything, especially personal fitness goals, to the web has turned into a nightmare for many otherwise security-conscious…
What If We Had to do D-Day All Over Again: What Would it Look Like Today? – Video
In hindsight, peering through a modern lens, it’s easy to claim that the Allies were somehow destined to win World War II because their cause…
All Apache Helicopters Get Emergency Retrofit for US Army
The US Army has ordered emergency retrofits on AH-64E Apache helicopters in order to verify that the fasteners on their rotor blades are not defective.…
Tejas MK1 Fighter Completes India’s First In-Air Refueling
The Indian defense capability took a big step forward with the successful air-to-air refueling of the Tejas MK1 fighter aircraft by an IL-78 MKI tanker.…
War Crime? Utah Camp Guard Opened Fire on German POWs After War was Over
Prisoners of war come part and parcel with the human institution of warfare. If an enemy combatant surrenders, he (or she) is to be accorded…
Strange but True: Former Russian Officer Was One of the Union’s Great Leaders in the Civil War
Ivan Turchaninov was born in 1822 in the Don River region of southern Russia, and graduated in 1841 from the Imperial Military School in St.…
U-Boat Wreckage Found – Crew Claimed They Were Attacked by Sea Monster
All throughout naval history, there have tales of mysterious monsters and other such oddities reaching out from the watery abyss to claim ships and sailors…
Eighty Years of Rocket Science and We’re Still Getting it Wrong
The advent of rocket technology in 1944 changed the face of warfare and set the stage for the Cold War, defining the second half of…
Aircraft Carriers Rule the Seas! – DOD Videos
Aircraft carriers and associated technology have advanced considerably since their humble origins in the First World War. In 1910, pilot Eugene Burton Ely was the…
Disastrous Rapido Crossing – How has History Judged General Mark Clark?
It has been said that some men who achieve greatness are not necessarily great men. That can refer to moral turpitude; it can refer to…