Today is the 83rd anniversary of the Japanese attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, which marked the entry of the US into World War II (and ultimately sealed the fate of the Axis, since they simply were no match for US industrial might ( Read more... )

There's an old saying: "never do an enemy a small injury ( Read more... )

Iran has sent drones and missiles to attack Israel in retaliation for the death of several of their military leaders. I've heard that some of them were intercepted and destroyed, but I have no idea what has happened to the others, whether they were duds or they caused damage ( Read more... )

Mr. Putin's War is rapidly approaching its third year, and we're well into the third month of the war in Gaza that started with the abomination that was the 10/7 attack on Israel. Now it looks like we may soon be looking at a third war ( Read more... )

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Today is the eighty-first anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which brought the US into World War II. Although today we tend to think of Japan as the land of incredible cuteness, in those days the Japanese Empire was an aggressive military powerhouse, determined to show itself the equal to the Western powers by bringing all East ( Read more... )

The mention of Coralville, Iowa at the beginning of this article is what caught my attention. Just a few weeks ago we were doing a convention in that city, so of course I would be curious about just how it would relate to dinosaurs. As it turns out, the Army Corps of Engineers did some flood control work there, and in the process they discovered ( Read more... )

Recently the Navy revealed video evidence of an encounter between some of its F/A-18 pilots and an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (what used to be called a UFO, but renamed to avoid the woo-woo connotations of that term). This included cockpit data that showed something shaped vaguely like a Tic-Tac that could maneuver in ways that no known ( Read more... )

or why Russia is facing a massive morale problem. The senior generals at the Ministry of Defense are acting as if it's still the Soviet Union, in which soldiers' lives can be spent like water and the people back home can be given the mushroom treatment, with glowing propaganda and the knowledge that questioning it can get you sent to the GULAG. ( Read more... )