US Air Force X-37B secret spaceplane lands after 780 days in orbit ~space spaceflight.military Article 423 words 13 votes
How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac ~humanities.history Article 2163 words, published Oct 18 2019 4 votes
Medieval Fighting Techniques - Mounted vs Foot (Lance vs Polearm & Sword) ~humanities.history Video 36:41 4 votes
The secret mission to seize Nazi map data: How a covert US Army intelligence unit canvassed war-torn Europe, capturing intelligence with incalculable strategic value ~humanities.history Article 4641 words 9 votes
US Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system ~tech Article 341 words 14 votes
More bad news for Norwegian Air as the airline loses Norway's biggest single customer contract to domestic rivals SAS ~transport Article 415 words, published Oct 14 2019 4 votes
If we have to choose between compromise and genocide, we will choose our people (Op-ed by commander-in-chief of the Kurds) ~news syria russia Article 810 words 10 votes
Twelve hours. Four Syrian hospitals bombed. One culprit: Russia. ~news syria russia Article 1491 words 12 votes
Long shot: The story of a Kurdish sniper ~humanities nsfw Article 5673 words, published Jan 1 2019 7 votes
Finland halts arms exports to Türkiye and condemns military operation in Syria ~news finland syria Article 463 words 12 votes
Turkey begins military offensive in Syria, days after Trump announced pullback of US troops ~news syria usa Article 16 votes
Norway decides against participation in NATO missile defence system ~news norway russia politics Article 216 words 7 votes
Whistleblower accuses largest US military shipbuilder of putting ‘American lives at risk’ by falsifying tests on submarine stealth coating ~news usa Article 1242 words 9 votes
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crashes at Hartford airport; at least seven reported dead ~news usa.ct.hartford Article 869 words 17 votes
Sweden's navy HQ is returning to a vast underground cold war fortress designed to withstand a nuclear attack – seen as a defensive move against a resurgent Russia ~news sweden.musko politics russia Article 661 words 8 votes
US Navy Surface Action Group consisting of a cruiser, three destroyers, and a helicopter strike squadron are operating in the Arctic waters surrounding Iceland ~news iceland usa Link 7 votes
The 1963 sinking of the Thresher killed 129 men and became history’s deadliest submarine disaster ~humanities.history Article 1516 words 5 votes
Army warns soldiers about 'incel' threat at Joker movie: Report (It's based on a tip from the FBI) ~movies Article 467 words 7 votes
Down to seven vets, Pearl Harbor survivors' group in California holds final meeting ~humanities.history Article 1461 words 15 votes
Pentagon will deploy US forces to the Middle East after Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia oil facilities ~news usa iran saudi arabia Article 16 votes
US drone strike kills thirty pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan ~news afghanistan usa Article 624 words 8 votes
Intersections in real time: the decision to build the KH-11 KENNEN reconnaissance satellite ~space spaceflight.military Article 7177 words, published Sep 9 2019 5 votes
Charles Koch has spent a fortune pushing the American government to the right. Now his foundation is promoting a vision of US power shared by many progressives: restraint ~misc politics Article 2963 words 4 votes
Danish government announced that it plans to boost military contributions to a number of missions around the world ~news denmark politics Article 1347 words 6 votes
Amateurs identify classified US spy satellite based on Tweet ~space satellites spaceflight Article 805 words 11 votes
Denmark honours Bernhard Arp Sindberg who rescued thousands of Chinese during the Japanese imperial army's orgy of violence in Nanjing in 1937 ~humanities.history Article 1005 words 6 votes
Navajo code talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories ~humanities.history Article 926 words, published Nov 27 2017 11 votes
Inside America’s dysfunctional trillion-dollar fighter-jet program ~tech Article 4600 words, published Aug 21 2019 8 votes
Norwegian researchers say data may point to second blast at Russian test site ~news norway russia Article 1027 words 8 votes
US patriotic correctness will doom us all – Drew Magary on the Trump administration’s troopification of everything ~misc politics Article 1957 words 8 votes
Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge ~humanities.history Link 4 votes
The US Navy will replace its touchscreen controls with mechanical ones on its destroyers ~tech Article 646 words 16 votes
The actress who left the stage to become an American Civil War spy ~humanities.history Article 1648 words 8 votes
Chinese armed police truck convoy rolls into Shenzhen, across the harbour from Hong Kong ~news hong kong china.shenzhen Link 26 votes
“We are essentially the ships that the Navy forgot”: As tensions heat up in the Persian Gulf, the US Navy’s minesweeping fleet may be too old and broken to do their job ~news usa Article 2592 words 9 votes
Women at war: Why do we still struggle with the idea of female soldiers? ~life.women Article 1613 words 8 votes
India rescinds Kashmir’s autonomous status. Troop surge and media blackout in effect ~news india pakistan Article 2522 words 27 votes
Camp Century – Secret Cold War base shifts through Greenland ice ~humanities.history Article 559 words 6 votes
Facebook connected her to a tattooed soldier in Iraq. Or so she thought. ~tech social media facebook Article 3443 words, published Jul 28 2019 5 votes