The Marine Corps is rolling into the future, stripping armor assets, and streamlining their approach...
Airpower
How an F-22 pilot scared Iranian fighters away with just one sentence
In 2013, an Iranian fighter pilot was closing with an American drone in international airspace...
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The Thing: How the KGB used kids to plant a bug in the US embassy
A few weeks before the end of World War II, a delegation of youngsters from...
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How does China’s defense spending really stack up against the US?
The Chinese military's rapid expansion and modernization efforts in recent years are certainly expensive, but...
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The incredible (and unique) firepower of the US Army’s Night Stalkers
The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment is the U.S. military’s premier rotary-wing special operations unit....
Military Affairs
The future Marine Rifle Squad as explained by a machine gunner
The Marine Corps does a lot of things well. One of those things is to...
Gear
The APC9K: We get hands-on with the Army’s new SMG
In July of 2021, I wrote an article about the Army's latest submachine gun, the...
Special Ops
‘First Casualty:’ A Gripping account of the CIA in Afghanistan after 9/11
In the spring of 2002, roughly eight months after the 9/11 attacks, I had returned...
Airpower
Why did the F-14 Tomcat retire decades before its peers?
In the 1970s, the United States had three revolutionary fighters enter service in the F-14...
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Makin Atoll Raid: The first submarine commando raid in history
Almost 80 years ago, U.S. special operations forces conducted the first-ever submarine-born commando raid. On...
