Iran and America’s Complicated Recent History
On June 13, explosions—probably from Limpet Mines—hit two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The United States has blamed Iran. On June 20, Iran shot down one of the United States’ Navy RQ-4 Global Hawk...
21 Jun 20191h 21min
War Robots, AI Targeting in Megacities, and Other Things We Learned From the US Army
China and America are two of the world’s great powers. Their economies are intertwined, their military’s powerful, and their soft power spreading across the globe. And tensions are rising. Neither sid...
14 Jun 201932min
Navy Pilots Keep Seeing UFOs Because They're Real
Flying saucers. Little Green Men. UFOs. Over the past few years, reports from US Navy Pilots of strange flying objects has been hitting the pages of America’s newspapers. And no, not just the tabloids...
7 Jun 201931min
America Once Planned to Nuke the Moon
The Soviet Union sent Sputnik into space in 1957. By 1958, thanks in part to the work of famed scientist Carl Sagan, the Pentagon had a plan to show the commies what for by nuking the moon. Thankfully...
31 Mai 201932min
ICYMI: Why QANON Matters And Why It Won't Go Away
Conspiracy theories are as old as the republic. Actually, they're a lot older than OUR republic. In every country, in every culture, people believe powerful forces are colluding in ways they know noth...
24 Mai 20191h 18min
America's War In Somalia Is Heating Up Again
Civilian casualties are a fact of war. The Pentagon, we’re told, does its best to minimize them but war is messy and it’s impossible to achieve the number zero. Unless you’re talking about Somalia. Am...
17 Mai 201934min
Japan's Surprisingly Large Military
On paper, Japan is no longer a military power. Article 9 of the Japanese constitution states that “the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of ...
10 Mai 201938min
Romanticizing History Can Be Worse Than Repeating It
The cliche goes that those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. But history is more than just a memory and a lesson, sometimes it’s a tool and a weapon. Some pundits are concerned that his...
3 Mai 201935min
