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BURNS HARBOR, Ind. The Navy says it will commission its new USS Indianapolis combat vessel at a northwestern Indiana port Saturday. The ceremony marking the ship's entry into the Navy's active fleet is set to begin at 10 a.m. at Burns Harbor along Lake Michi…

There are about 5,000 members of the U.S. military, mostly airmen, stationed at the huge, strategically located air base in Incirlik, Turkey, northwest of the Syrian border. The American forces at Incirlik are also the custodians of about 50 B61 nuclear bomb…

Author’s preface: About 18 months ago the distinguished American historian and scientist, Noam Chomsky, directed my attention through emails to Otto Skorzeny’s ‘My Commando Operations’, a book on which the below article is largely based upon and, a little la…

On April 9, 1942, the United States surrendered Bataan to the Imperial Army of Japan in the very heart of the six bloody years of World War II. It was the largest surrender in American history 75,000 troops since the surrender that ended the Civil War eighty …

Despite years of spiraling relations with Turkey, the United States has myopically continued to store an estimated 50 nuclear bombs in the country. Even now, after Turkey launched a devastating offensive on Oct. 9 against Americas Kurdish allies in Syria, dis…

Key point: The plane broke a speed record for transcontinental flight. Contrary to most other planes designed and used in World War II, Lockheeds P-38 Lightning had twin booms ending in vertical stabilizers and rudders. The pilot sat in a span between twin e…

Key point: The fast kamikaze plane could kill, but it was too little, too late. It is a fallacy that Germany was the only nation to develop combat jets in World War II. In truth, while Germany had the most advanced technology, all of the major powers had jet…

Technically, we didnt know that those 50 or so warheads were still at Incirlik until the Times report confirmed it this week. Its general American policy to neither confirm nor deny the specific location of nuclear weapons on vessels and storage sites oversea…

Photograph Source: Cover of the book Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War When did the Cold War begin? In 1917! When, if ever, did it end? Never! What is its most dramatic moment? The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki! Who …

Straddling two continents, Turkey has one of the most powerful armed forces in Europe or Asia. Over four hundred thousand strong, Ankaras armed forces are divided into the Army, Air Force, and Navy. A Special Forces Corps exists and is subordinate directly to…