A pre-World War II US Navy plan for a modular floating platform has developed into a key lifeline in Gaza and at disaster sites around the world.
America’s newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, has been deployed to the Red Sea to counter the Houthi threat to shipping there.
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Part of the rationale for acquiring nuclear-powered subs is to counter China’s growing military influence. But the US navy still remains much more powerful than China’s.
Photos claiming to be UFO evidence are often doctored or otherwise ambiguous.
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While UFO videos might seem compelling, they’re rarely backed up with evidence. A sociologist explains why claims of alien life gain traction through both social and mass media every few years.
A Marine amphibious assault vehicle takes part in a 2019 joint U.S.-Philippines exercise.
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About 10% of the Oath Keepers are active-duty military, and around two-thirds are retired military or law enforcement.
It should be obvious to this diver that this is a shipwreck and not a reef, but what about to someone looking at a image of this spot taken from an aircraft?
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It’s difficult to tell a shipwreck from a natural feature on the ocean floor in a scan taken from a plane or ship. This project used deep learning to get it right 92% of the time.
As tensions in the disputed waters mount, it’s important to understand how this conflict began and what international law says about freedom of navigation and competing maritime claims.
A soldier stands guard at the damaged entrance to Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Florida, Oct. 11, 2018, after Hurricane Michael.
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A new look at detailed data about Civil War skirmishes along the Mississippi River reveals another key to the Union’s victory.
Numerous officers who served in the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet are caught up in a massive bribery scandal.
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A massive scandal implicating senior US Navy officers highlights what bribery is and how it happens. A law and ethics scholar at the US Naval Academy can’t say much more than that, though.
An apparently unidentified object detected on a Navy plane’s infrared camera.
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During a military mission, whether in peace or in war, the inability to identify an object within an area of operation represents a significant problem.
Beds with patients in an emergency hospital in Camp Funston, Kansas, during the influenza epidemic around 1918.
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The most expensive defense program in world history has yielded a multi-role fighter plane that is an inelegant jack-of-all-trades, but master of none.
A visitor pauses at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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An Army veteran and professor of rhetoric explores poetry written by veterans about a divisive holiday born of the Civil War.
American troops drive French Renault FT tanks to the battle line in the Forest of Argonne, France, September 26, 1918.
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