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U.S. Space Force Launch at Cape Canaveral

The First U.S. Space Force Launch Is Today

Watch the new military branch live stream the satellite launch

U.S. Air Force HADES directed energy weapon

The US Military Is Getting Serious About Laser Weapons

George Hood

Health & Fitness

How George Hood Set a World Record by Planking for Over 8 Hours

The Greenbrier

Inside the American Resorts Used to Detain Axis Diplomats

Army dog on a leash

Inside the World of a Military Dog Contractor

Unexploded U.S. WWII Bombs Near Tesla's German Gigafactory

Tesla’s Latest Challenge Is Unexploded WWII Bombs in Germany

Doris Miller in 1943

Navy to Name Aircraft Carrier for Pearl Harbor Hero Doris Miller

President Donald Trump watches the game during the Army-Navy game on December 14, 2019 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia PA.(Photo by Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Officials Investigating After “White Power” Gesture Seen at Army-Navy Game

Vasa

Warships Tied to Swedish Vessel Vasa Discovered Underwater

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

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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

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

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