The thing about fighter jets is that just about every developed nation in the world has some, and while the capabilities of these aircraft vary greatly from platform to platform, it’s hard to withhold the awe you experience seeing any one of these purpose-built aviation marvels … [Read more...]
Alex Hollings
Watch: 360 degree video shows what it’s like to hitch a ride dangling under a Blackhawk
Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction (SPIE) flights offer a unique way to get troops into and out of terrain that a helicopter may not be able to land on. To the untrained observer, SPIE flights might look like a helicopter simply lowers a rope, warfighters clip on with … [Read more...]
The Andrée Expedition: A tragic tale of Arctic exploration and mankind’s indomitable spirit
It can sometimes be easy to lose perspective when talking about historical events. Once timelines stretch beyond the horizon of our own recollection, they tend to get fuzzy. Most people would be surprised to know, for instance, that Cleopatra's lifetime was actually closer to … [Read more...]
Check out this insane GoPro footage of a jumpmaster saving a skydiver that had a seizure mid-jump
Skydiving for sport or recreation is among the most popular ways mankind has devised to laugh in the face of our own mortality. As insane as it might sound to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, somewhere in the neighborhood of 350,000 jumpers execute close to 3 million jumps … [Read more...]
Prepper Paradise: A bit more than a million dollars could buy you this entire military installation
Mankind has always harbored a macabre fascination with the end of the world. Doomsday predictions litter humanity's history, and for each new prophet promising the end of days, you could find a disappointed congregation, maligning the world's existential persistence when his … [Read more...]
Darkness and confusion may be the biggest killer in future wars—will anyone be safe?
Today's world, while safer for most than at any other time in human history, is ripe with burgeoning conflict, simmering just beneath the surface. Civil wars and regional spats in nations like Yemen and Syria draw powerful militaries into proxy-conflicts. Looming concerns about a … [Read more...]
The problem with military leadership, as told by 3 monkeys and a step ladder
The military is made up of all sorts of people. The good, the bad, and the ugly all find their ways into uniforms, and although much of the training service members undergo is intended to improve upon our abilities to lead, some aspects of good leadership are innate and … [Read more...]
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