Almost five decades since its introduction to the world, the F-16 Fighting Falcon, or “Viper” for its operators, remains an ...

The attack on Venezuela was premediated and unsurprising except in one, significant respect: U.S. officials, most notably the garrulous president, did not mask their motives, minimize the violence, or ...

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THERE is something alien—different, distant, disconcerting—about the voice, the technology. A herd of sheep has been decimated. 6000 of them. The field. Journalist has named the cause: nerve gas. Now, ...

Social-media sites (which the country only partly stifles) carry rumours of a tussle between factions of the party that are ...

The Eighth Army commander reversed the order after meeting General Douglas MacArthur. The ever-aggressive Ridgway saw an ...

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The plane used by the U.S. military to strike an alleged drug-smuggling boat off Venezuela last fall was painted to look like ...

The Suomi KP/-31 was one of the lesser-known and yet most influential submachine guns of the Second World War. It was the ...

Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. […] ...

“The War Powers Act is Unconstitutional, totally violating Article II of the Constitution, as all Presidents, and their ...