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Japan, which at the start of World War II was the proprietor of the world’s mightiest aircraft carrier fleet, is…

In the 1986 science fiction movie Aliens, heroine Ellen Ripley dons a powered exoskeleton suit to engage in hand to…

On September 14, some as-yet officially unknown perpetrators launched a complex attack on Saudi Arabian oil…

Twice in the last month, the President of the United States has claimed that the Pentagon has weapons even more…

Seventy percent Americans think showering the rest of the world with tanks, ships, planes, radar and munitions makes…

A year ago, then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis ordered America’s air forces to achieve what seemed like an…

A Texas-based beer company stirred up controversy earlier this month when it was revealed to have named a beer after…

In October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis threatened to escalate into global thermonuclear war. The United States…

This week, the United States announced its intention to sell Taiwan a fleet of new F-16 fighter jets. The sale…

Late last week, America’s attention was successfully diverted from unsettling economic news by the latest shiny…

The A-10 Warthog—Cold War tank killer, terrorizer of the Taliban, ugly but fearsome duckling of American airpower,…

The sinking of the ammunition ship USS Serpens in January 1945 was the single deadliest day in the history of the…

A few days ago, on August 8, there was an explosion on a barge in the White Sea near Nyonoksa, Russia. That…

North Korea has conducted a round of long range rocket tests designed to kick down the door and destroy ballistic…

The People’s Liberation Army—the official name of the Chinese Army—still rides yaks to patrol some of the country’s…

During the Democratic presidential debates this week, candidates wrestled with a particularly thorny national…

Hello, hello, hello, my darlings! What a summer it has been so far. I heard you didn’t get that time off from work…

When it first came out in 2015, we were impressed by how close the SOTV-B managed to dress up as a Toyota Hilux, the…

The Top Gun: Maverick trailer is here, and while there is such a thing as “suspension of disbelief” and “it’s just a…

The American government has given Turkey the boot, officially removing the country from the F-35 Lightning II…