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Iraq After the US Military Withdrawal: Militia Disarmament Will Decide the Outcome

Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has set June 2027 as the deadline for bringing the Popular Mobilization Forces under state authority. Five factions have reportedly...

Seth FrantzmanOctober 14, 2026

F-14 Tomcat Above US Navy Aircraft Carrier

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The Navy Built 2 Aircraft Carriers That Flew. The 785-Foot Airships USS Akron and USS Macon Carried Biplane Fighters Inside Their Hulls, and Within 4 Years Both Were on the Ocean Floor

In the early 1930s the Navy’s first aircraft carriers to fly, the 785-foot helium airships USS Akron and USS Macon, carried up to five...

Steve BalestrieriOctober 13, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

The Navy Built Only 1 Submarine With 2 Nuclear Reactors. USS Triton Circled the Globe Underwater in 1960 and Was Decommissioned After Less Than a Decade, Then Scrapped

USS Triton (SSRN-586) was built as a radar picket to run ahead of carrier groups, so the Navy gave it two Westinghouse S4G reactors,...

Brandon WeichertOctober 13, 2026

Iowa-Class USS Wisconsin. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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1 North Korean Gun Hit 55,000-Ton Navy Iowa-Class Battleship USS Wisconsin in 1952. She Answered With All Nine 16-Inch Guns, and the Ships Beside Her Signaled 2 Words: ‘Temper, Temper’

Off Songjin in March 1952, a single North Korean 152 mm gun scored a direct hit on USS Wisconsin, wounding three sailors and nothing...

Steve BalestrieriOctober 13, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

Soviet Nuclear Submarine K-278 Komsomolets Had an Escape Capsule That Separated as She Sank. Only 1 Man Inside Survived the Ascent, and 42 Sailors Died in the Norwegian Sea in 1989

Built with a titanium pressure hull at Sevmash, the Soviet K-278 Komsomolets reached 1,020 meters, a depth no NATO submarine could follow and still...

Brandon WeichertOctober 13, 2026

US Navy Nuclear Attack Submarine Similar to USS Thresher

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An Investigation Found Navy Nuclear Attack Submarine USS Thresher Most Likely Sank Because 1 Pipe Joint Was Brazed Instead of Welded. 129 Men Died in a Chain of Failures That Took Minutes

On April 10, 1963, the world’s most advanced submarine told the rescue ship USS Skylark it was having “minor difficulties,” tried to blow ballast,...

Caleb LarsonOctober 13, 2026

Skipjack-Class Submarine US Navy Submarine File Photo

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An Investigation Found the Most Likely Cause of the Loss of Navy Nuclear Attack Submarine USS Scorpion Was an Explosion Outside the Hull From One of Her Own Torpedoes. It Stayed Classified Until 1993

USS Scorpion (SSN-589) sent its last message on May 21, 1968, and never made Norfolk. A Court of Inquiry’s “most likely” cause, an “explosion...

Stephen SilverOctober 13, 2026

USS Forrestal (CV-59) US Navy Aircraft Carrier

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An Investigation Found Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Forrestal Had Unstable Bombs on Its Flight Deck Because the Ammo Storage Was Full. Then 1 Rocket Fired by Accident, and 134 Sailors Died

At 10:52 a.m. on July 29, 1967, an electrical fault fired a Zuni rocket across the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal...

Isaac SeitzOctober 13, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

China’s New ‘Flying Wing’ Xi’an H-20 Stealth Bomber Is Now Frozen In a Development ‘Doom Loop’

China’s H-20 program began in 2016, yet as of 2026 there is no confirmed test flight or deployment. The United States went from the...

Caleb LarsonOctober 12, 2026

US Army General George S. Patton Creative Commons Photo

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George S. Patton’s Most Powerful Quote About Going Into Battle and War Is Simple: ‘All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty’

“All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence...

Christian D. OrrOctober 12, 2026

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Iraq After the US Military Withdrawal: Militia Disarmament Will Decide the Outcome

Aerospace & Defense

The Navy Built 2 Aircraft Carriers That Flew. The 785-Foot Airships USS Akron and USS Macon Carried Biplane Fighters Inside Their Hulls, and Within 4 Years Both Were on the Ocean Floor

Aerospace & Defense

The Navy Built Only 1 Submarine With 2 Nuclear Reactors. USS Triton Circled the Globe Underwater in 1960 and Was Decommissioned After Less Than a Decade, Then Scrapped

Aerospace & Defense

1 North Korean Gun Hit 55,000-Ton Navy Iowa-Class Battleship USS Wisconsin in 1952. She Answered With All Nine 16-Inch Guns, and the Ships Beside Her Signaled 2 Words: ‘Temper, Temper’

Aerospace & Defense

Soviet Nuclear Submarine K-278 Komsomolets Had an Escape Capsule That Separated as She Sank. Only 1 Man Inside Survived the Ascent, and 42 Sailors Died in the Norwegian Sea in 1989

Aerospace & Defense

An Investigation Found Navy Nuclear Attack Submarine USS Thresher Most Likely Sank Because 1 Pipe Joint Was Brazed Instead of Welded. 129 Men Died in a Chain of Failures That Took Minutes

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An Investigation Found the Most Likely Cause of the Loss of Navy Nuclear Attack Submarine USS Scorpion Was an Explosion Outside the Hull From One of Her Own Torpedoes. It Stayed Classified Until 1993

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An Investigation Found Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Forrestal Had Unstable Bombs on Its Flight Deck Because the Ammo Storage Was Full. Then 1 Rocket Fired by Accident, and 134 Sailors Died

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China’s New ‘Flying Wing’ Xi’an H-20 Stealth Bomber Is Now Frozen In a Development ‘Doom Loop’

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George S. Patton’s Most Powerful Quote About Going Into Battle and War Is Simple: ‘All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty’

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