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By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Jun 17, 2020

Analysis

Kim Jong Un has quietly built a 7,000-man cyber army that gives North Korea an edge nuclear weapons don’t

"This is not hacking; this is cyber warfare"

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Feb 26, 2020

History

A legendary Navy pilot recounts how he earned three Distinguished Flying Crosses in a single week

In one week of that career, naval aviator Chuck Sweeney earned three Distinguished Flying Crosses, awarded for "heroism or extraordinary...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Dec 12, 2019

News

Pentagon investigators say a senior DoD official sexually harassed women on his staff

Guy Roberts, the former assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical, biological defense programs, resigned in April, USA Today reported...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Dec 9, 2019

Military Tech

The US military is testing water-penetrating bullets so Navy SEALs can shoot from underwater

A new weapon being tested by the U.S. military could give special operators a more lethal edge by allowing them...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Dec 9, 2019

Analysis

More US contractors have died in Afghanistan than US troops, but the Pentagon doesn’t keep track

The Department of Labor's report indicates that 1,774 civilian contractors have died in Afghanistan since the beginning of the war....

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Dec 5, 2019

News

A missing Canadian ex-soldier was reportedly smuggled across the US border and is hiding with a neo-Nazi group

Former Canadian Army Reserve Master Cpl. Patrik Mathews, 26, was first identified as a member of The Base by Winnipeg...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Dec 3, 2019

Analysis

North Korea’s promised ‘Christmas gift’ to Trump could be a missile test capable of striking the US

North Korea has again lobbed a vague year-end threat at the Trump administration, saying the United States can expect a...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Nov 27, 2019

News

The ‘Fox & Friends’ host who persuaded Trump to pardon troops accused of war crimes levels a warning at Pentagon leaders

President Donald Trump's decision to pardon or reinstate the rank of three warfighters accused or convicted of war crimes went...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Nov 12, 2019

News

The Navy canceled a routine Black Sea patrol after Trump complained that it was hostile to Russia

Christopher Anderson, an aide to former Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, testified that the White House cancelled a Navy...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Nov 11, 2019

Entertainment

A former British paratrooper explains how he prepared ‘1917’ actors to fight WWI’s most devastating battles

Paul Biddiss, the military technical adviser on the upcoming World War I movie 1917, taught the actors everything they needed...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Nov 8, 2019

History

7 never-before-seen artifacts from the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden

The National 9/11 Memorial and Museum's new exhibit, Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden, tells the decades-long story of the...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Nov 1, 2019

News

Russia just tested an ICBM near the site of its deadly nuclear missile accident

The Russian military successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from its new Borei A-class submarine, the nuclear-powered Knyaz Vladimir, or...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Oct 18, 2019

News

Turkey allegedly used chemical weapons on the Kurdish civilians Trump left vulnerable in Syria

The United Nations is investigating the possible use of chemical weapons in the conflict in northeastern Syria. The Kurdish Red...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Oct 15, 2019

Analysis

US officials reportedly considered pulling nuclear weapons out of Turkey, effectively ending the US-Turkey alliance

"I think this is a first — a country with US nuclear weapons stationed in it literally firing artillery at...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Oct 8, 2019

News

US commander who oversaw defeat of ISIS: 11,000 Kurds died fighting by our side. Now we’re screwing them over

"This policy abandonment threatens to undo five years' worth of fighting against ISIS and will severely damage American credibility and...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Oct 4, 2019

Military Tech

The Navy just blew the hell out of an old frigate with its new ship-killer missile in a message to China

"LCS packs a punch and gives potential adversaries another reason to stay awake at night."

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Sep 26, 2019

Military Tech

The Pentagon’s nuclear weapons are facing a $1 billion setback thanks to a faulty $5 part

An official with the National Nuclear Security Administration told lawmakers that a $5 commercial capacitor it had tested for the...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Sep 18, 2019

News

McRaven: China’s massive military buildup is a ‘holy sh*t’ moment

"We need to make sure that the American public knows that now is the time to do something"

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Sep 10, 2019

News

Air Force F-35s and F-15s obliterated an Iraqi island ‘infested’ with ISIS fighters

On September 10, US and Iraqi forces dropped 80,000 pounds of munitions on Qanus Island, in Iraq's Salah-al-Din province, to...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Jul 24, 2019

Military Tech

The Air Force’s secretive new B-21 stealth bomber is ready to take flight

The Air Force's new B-21 Raider is set to fly sometime in December 2021

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Jun 17, 2019

Leadership

McRaven reveals his biggest fear during the planning of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden

During an interview to promote his latest book, Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations, PBS reporter Judy Woodruff asked...

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Kim Jong Un has quietly built a 7,000-man cyber army that gives North Korea an edge nuclear weapons don’t

A legendary Navy pilot recounts how he earned three Distinguished Flying Crosses in a single week

Pentagon investigators say a senior DoD official sexually harassed women on his staff

The US military is testing water-penetrating bullets so Navy SEALs can shoot from underwater

More US contractors have died in Afghanistan than US troops, but the Pentagon doesn’t keep track

A missing Canadian ex-soldier was reportedly smuggled across the US border and is hiding with a neo-Nazi group

North Korea’s promised ‘Christmas gift’ to Trump could be a missile test capable of striking the US

The ‘Fox & Friends’ host who persuaded Trump to pardon troops accused of war crimes levels a warning at Pentagon leaders

The Navy canceled a routine Black Sea patrol after Trump complained that it was hostile to Russia

A former British paratrooper explains how he prepared ‘1917’ actors to fight WWI’s most devastating battles

7 never-before-seen artifacts from the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden

Russia just tested an ICBM near the site of its deadly nuclear missile accident

Turkey allegedly used chemical weapons on the Kurdish civilians Trump left vulnerable in Syria

US officials reportedly considered pulling nuclear weapons out of Turkey, effectively ending the US-Turkey alliance

US commander who oversaw defeat of ISIS: 11,000 Kurds died fighting by our side. Now we’re screwing them over

The Navy just blew the hell out of an old frigate with its new ship-killer missile in a message to China

The Pentagon’s nuclear weapons are facing a $1 billion setback thanks to a faulty $5 part

McRaven: China’s massive military buildup is a ‘holy sh*t’ moment

Air Force F-35s and F-15s obliterated an Iraqi island ‘infested’ with ISIS fighters

The Air Force’s secretive new B-21 stealth bomber is ready to take flight

McRaven reveals his biggest fear during the planning of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden