The CIA’s ‘Freedom Fighter’s Manual’ Is One of the Lamest Comic Books You’ll...
The Central Intelligence Agency’s Freedom Fighter’s Manual has to be one of the most curious works of propaganda the U.S. government has ever published. For one, it’s a comic book. But that’s not the...
View ArticleJFK Had a Secret Nuclear Fallout Bunker in South Florida
Originally published on April 27, 2015. In December 1960, the SeaBees — the U.S. Navy’s construction force — supposedly began the mundane task of building a munitions depot behind the Coast Guard...
View ArticleTwenty-five German Prisoners Escaped from a Phoenix POW Camp During World War II
During World War II, the United States held 400,000 Axis prisoners of war in some 500 POW camps. Some of these camps were located in the Midwest and Great Plains areas, but the majority were in the...
View ArticleThe CIA Battled the Kremlin With Books and Movies
Originally published on May 2, 2015. During the Cold War, Moscow’s Ministry of Culture was a master of censorship. The Kremlin’s cultural bulwark screened non-Russian films, suppressed literature and...
View ArticleOn Sale Now — A Civilian Squad Machine Gun
For almost 30 years the M-249 Squad Automatic Weapon has been the go-to light machine gun for U.S. Army infantry squads — and Marine Corps squads, too, until recently. And now you can walk into your...
View ArticleWorld War II Just Might Have Saved ‘Gatsby’ and Fitzgerald
American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald died of a massive heart attack in 1940 at the age of 44. At the time, he was living in relative obscurity. He earned a solid living selling short stories to The...
View ArticleYa a la venta una ametralladora de pelotón civil
Durante casi 30 años la M-249 Squad Automatic Weapon ha sido la ametralladora ligera utilizada por los pelotones de infantería del Ejército de Tierra estadounidense, y hasta hace poco también por los...
View ArticleKey West Declared a Faux War on the United States in 1982
Originally published on April 3, 2015. The people of Key West, Florida don’t take kindly to bullies, especially federal bullies. When Washington blocked the only road to the mainland, the islanders...
View ArticleHezbollah May Come Out of the Syrian Civil War Stronger Than Ever
When Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah confirmed in May 2013 that Hezbollah had joined the Syrian Civil War on the side of Pres. Bashar Al Assad’s embattled government, it marked a major political and military...
View ArticleUnderwater Firearms Are a Thing, and Russia Is Really Into Them
The Soviet Union began developing underwater guns nearly 50 years ago. The idea — to arm commando frogmen and other combat divers for underwater engagements, however rare and unlikely these subsurface...
View ArticleLas armas de fuego subacuáticas son una cosa, y Rusia está de verdad en ello
La Unión Soviética empezó a desarrollar armas subacuáticas hace casi 50 años. La idea era dotar a los hombres rana de los comandos y a otros buceadores de combate de un arma adecuada para un...
View ArticleWho Wants a Flamethrower?
Flamethrowers are among the most brutal and horrifying weapons of modern warfare. They strike terror in enemies and are often a frightening weapon even for their own users to wield. Allied and Axis...
View ArticleAntiquated Helicopters Protect America’s Nuclear Missile Sites
The U.S. Air Force’s 450 silo-based Minuteman III ballistic missiles represent the entire land-based leg of America’s nuclear deterrent. The Minuteman missiles are a big deal. So why is missile-field...
View ArticleThe U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System Was an Expensive Failure
In 2007, the U.S. Army began embedding anthropologists and other social scientists in combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan. It called the initiative the Human Terrain System. HTS aimed to improve...
View Article¿Quién quiere un lanzallamas?
El lanzallamas se encuentra entre las armas más espeluznantes y despiadadas de la guerra moderna. Siembra el terror entre el enemigo y suele presentarse como un arma temible incluso para sus propios...
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