Iowa National Guard Unit Watches Predator One Too Many Times, Makes Jesse Ventura’s Ammo...
Who doesn't love Predator? Two juiced up governors-to-be on screen simultaneously throwing lead at a common enemy and taking out bad guys. Its a typical late-80s action film, but the reason that it always...
The Eight Longest Sniper Shots in History
Guns & Ammo recently recapped the eight longest sniper shots on record. Dominated by Yank, Brit and Canuck shooters, seven of the eight have taken place in the last ten years (most in Afghanistan) with...
Sunday Afternoon at the Movies: The Best Foreign War Films
Growing up, Sunday afternoons were reserved by my Dad for movies featuring John Wayne or Henry Fonda going off to fight some battle. Fine pieces of American cinema showing stories from our past. One week it...
This Day in History: Black Hawk Down
On this day in 1993 (18 years ago), U.S. Forces descended into Mogadishu in Somalia to capture and extract high ranking officials in the government that overthrew President Mohammed Siad Barre and led to mass...
Revision BATLSKIN: How to Win Friends and Influence People. Or Not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS1B3y_4k8k&feature=player_embedded
Remember the Army ad where the viewer's looking a hysterical black man ranting (in a foreign language) at the camera as if someone had just killed his entire family in an airstrike? The narrator...
The Atlantic: World War II in Photos
The Atlantic has a great 20-part series of photographs from various parts of World War II running on their website. They're publishing one part every week (on Sunday) until October 30, 2011. So far...
Marines Select The Blackhawk SERPA Retention Holster
The USMC has been issuing the venerable M-12 for decades. And for almost as long, Marines have shelled out their own money for something they like better. But the Marines have now decided to...
Army’s 2011 “10 Greatest Inventions” Includes Machine Gun, 5.56 Round
Attention! The U.S. Army is a high-tech happening place these days, thanks to the fact that our soldiers are busy trying to defend people in two major operational theaters. Oh, and kill a bunch...
Learn French [Canadian] the Easy Way Avec Le M777 Howitzer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWRepcelhKs
Dude, Where’s My AK-47?
I’ll go out on a limb here and assume you’re aware that the economy’s not so hot. And that the likelihood of college grads snagging full-time employment that doesn’t require wearing a paper hat...
Libyans Disarming Libyans. Again. Still.
Why is the international media so captivated by events in the Middle East? The various countries' efforts to overthrow their governments (read: "autocratic dictators surrounded with friends with official titles") are certainly compelling narratives....