Hanging Out With an Armed Militia at the Local Recruiting Post
Originally published on July 24, 2015. A motley group of men wearing khaki and camouflage stood guard outside a U.S. Army recruiting office. They toted shotguns, pistols and assault rifles. Pizza boxes...
View ArticleLa historia de combate del condón
Un simple condón, compañero del soldado estadounidense en esas apasionadas noches de permiso desde que el ejército empezó a distribuirlos en los años 1930 como barrera contra las infecciones. Sin...
View ArticleWomen Pilots, Who Flew During World War II, Denied Rest at Arlington National...
First Lt. Elaine Danforth Harmon, a Women’s Airforce Service Pilot, or WASP, was one of many women who served their country when it needed them the most. More than 70 years after Harmon flew military...
View ArticleThe U.S. Army’s Failed Quest to Create Floating Tank Divisions
Amphibious assaults are the domain of the U.S. Marines, not the Army. But there was a period in history when the Army tried to out-do the Marines in hitting the beach — including planning how to deploy...
View ArticleObama to Reinforce Europe With More Troops, Tanks and Artillery
After a week of escalating tensions, Russian tanks and paratroopers, backed by artillery, helicopter gunships and fixed-wing warplanes, flood across the Estonian and Latvian borders. Despite NATO’s...
View ArticleHow the 1st Special Forces Group Got Its Own Whiskey
The U.S. Army’s elite 1st Special Forces Group has the distinction of being among the first American military units to fight and take casualties in Vietnam. Now it’s the first special operations unit...
View ArticleThe U.S. Army’s Warplane Recognition Guide Is Hilariously Wrong
The U.S. Army publishes an official “Visual Aircraft Recognition” manual whose purpose, according to the manual itself, is to “assist the user in the technique of identifying friendly, hostile or...
View ArticleYes, the U.S. Army Still Needs Paratroopers
Once again, Army Times, in an apparent desperate bid for clicks, dragged up and flogged a dead horse — this time, questioning whether the Army still need its airborne forces, including the 82nd...
View ArticleSecretive U.S. Spy Plane Crashes in Iraq
When Talal Abdulqadir woke up on March 5, he probably didn’t expect his farm in northern Iraq would end up crawling with American troops guarding a crashed aircraft. In an instant, the green field...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Is Finally Designing Combat Gear for Women
As women begin to serve in all combat roles across every branch of the military, the Pentagon is making new efforts to ensure that their troops’ fertility — and prospect of having kids — is intact,...
View ArticleThe Pentagon’s Rape Hypocrisy Is Painfully Obvious
U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, a California Republican, is introducing federal legislation that would require the U.S. military to do more to stop rape. The Mandating America’s Responsibility to Limit Abuse,...
View ArticleActually, Paratroopers Are Obsolete Without Armored Vehicles
Airborne units have many who defend their current and future relevance. One of them, Crispin Burke, did so here at War Is Boring. That said, he missed the case reformists have made. Simply put,...
View ArticleU.S. Army Scout Copters Head to South Korea for One Last Mission
With tensions at a recent high, the U.S. Army is sending the last of its OH-58D Kiowa Warrior scout helicopters to the Korean Peninsula for one more mission. After decades of service in war zones...
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 ArticleThe U.S. Army Is About to Double Its Howitzer Range
On March 19, U.S. Marine Corps staff sergeant Louis Cardin, a field artilleryman assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, died during an attack on Fire Base Bell outside of Makhmur, Iraq....
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