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Vasa

Warships Tied to Swedish Vessel Vasa Discovered Underwater

Where military history meets maritime archaeology

The Pentagon

Did Trump Help Microsoft Win a $10B Defense Contract Over Amazon?

Old floppy disk

US Military Phases Out Floppy Disks for Nuclear Arsenal

AM General Jeep Gladiator Extreme Military-Grade Truck

Jeep Made a Military-Grade Gladiator With the Company Behind the Humvee

The Pentagon Department of Defense

Amazon May Become One of the Largest Defense Contractors Overnight

Musician Tom DeLonge attends A Conversation With Tom DeLonge at The GRAMMY Museum on October 13, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rebecca Sapp/WireImage)

Navy Confirms UFO Videos Posted by Blink-182's Tom DeLonge Contain "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena"

Special Forces triathlon

Health & Fitness

I Survived the Special Forces Endurance Race From Hell

Ship graveyard

US Navy Task Force on Climate Change Is No More

Surveillance balloons

The Latest Technology That’s Tracking Your Every Move? Surveillance Balloons.

Drone

Air Force Debuts Anti-Drone Technology

Beluga Whale

Is a Beluga Whale Working for the Russian Navy?

"Simple Sabotage" extended to factories, (Getty Images)

“Simple Sabotage” — The CIA’s Guide for “Rascally Spies”

Early 1940s Indo-China. (Getty Images)

The “Free-Wheeling” Amateur Spies of WWII Indochina

Belfast,Ireland early 1970s, when the laundry launched. (Getty Images)

Why the British Military Ran a Laundry Service and Massage Parlor

Looking to the sky for military weaponry is a thing. (Getty Images)

Rods From God: A Space Weapon to Make Thor Jealous

Libyan chief of state Muammar al-Qaddafi attends a 1981 graduation at the women's military academy in Tripoli. The academy opened in 1979 during Qaddafi's push to include women in Libya's armed forces. (Photo by Christine Spengler/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

“No One Is Safe”: Hunting the Libyan Hit Squads of the 1980s

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Caricature of Ulysses S. Grant inebriated. (Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

How Ulysses S. Grant Came to Be Seen as a Failure

During World War II, Fort Hunt was known only as P.O. Box 1142. (Getty)

Inside the Secret WWII Training and Interrogation Base in the Shadow of D.C.

A KGB badge lays on a closed KGB identity book. (Getty Images)

The Unsolved Case of Accused Spy Felix Bloch

Soviet Union and United States of America flags. (Getty)

Inside the CIA’s Secret Cold War Program to Spy on a Soviet Embassy

Computer hacker (GETTY IMAGES)

US Hacker Squads Constantly On the Attack in New Cyberwar Strategy

A safety glass with a bullet hole through the glass. (Getty Images)

How the Assassination of a CIA Station Chief Became a Greek Tragedy

33 new Vatican Swiss Guards recruits prepare to be sworn in during a ceremony at St. Damaso courtyard on May 6, 2018 in Vatican City, Vatican. The annual swearing in ceremony for the New Papal Swiss Guards takes place every year on May 6, commemorating the 147 soldiers who died defending Pope Clement VII on the same day in 1527 during the sack of Rome. (Photo by Alessandra Benedetti - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

How the World’s Smallest Military Force Has Survived for 500 Years

The British actor Edward Fox, left, as the titular character, checks the precision rifle made by the Irish actor Cyril Cusack in the film The Day of the Jackal. Genova, 1973 ( Getty Images)

Real-Life “Jackal” Revealed “Killing De Gaulle Was Only the First Step”

CONSEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR TESTING IN KAZAKHSTAN (Photo by Alain Nogues/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

How to Make an ‘Atomic Lake’ (Nuclear Bomb Required)

Benedict Arnold was a traitor

The CIA’s Long, Failed Quest to Get Inside the Mind of a Traitor

These paratroopers, members of US Paramarine troops, take a practice jump -- similar to what carpetbaggers may have been required to do -- in 1943. (Getty Images)

In the Air With Operation Carpetbagger, a Secret WWII Mission

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Confessions of a Soviet Assassin

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