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According to the U.S. Flag Code, you shouldn’t let the flag touch the ground or hang it upside-down. While there’s no express prohibition about reversing the image, it’s probably a safe bet you shouldn’t do that, either.

If things had gone a bit differently in the French and Indian War, we’d all be speaking French right now.

9. James McAvoy, Tom Hardy, Simon Pegg, Michael Fassbender, Colin Hanks, Dominic Cooper, and Andrew Scott were among some of the up-and-coming actors who appeared in it.

An estimated 35,000 German soldiers died in Estonia during World War II while fighting Soviet troops.

The ships are considered the graves of thousands of sailors.

Researchers took inspiration from nature's masters of disguise.

The U.S. Coast Guard has a unique job in the military, with a role in law enforcement and a role in war.

With Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’ winning critical acclaim, the world’s attention is once again focused on the historic events recounted in the film.

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Is the secret to building an unsinkable aircraft carrier hiding in your ice cube tray?

On December 24, 1955, the red telephone at the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center started to ring. When they picked up the phone, a little girl asked an unexpected question: “Are you really Santa Claus?”

Service animals and working military dogs are still permitted, as are authorized visitors on bicycles.

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An IED took all four of his limbs. A team of 12 surgeons needed 14 hours to replace two of them.

The U.S. military studies everything from uniform button placement to traveler's diarrhea to organ transplants with the same intense rigor.

Brigadier Sir Nils Olav is the most highly-decorated bird in the world.

The press started with: "Did you get the black-eyed peas when you got home?"

The Navy wants to reduce its dependence on GPS.

James Bond wasn't the only spy with cool gadgets in the 20th century.

War heroes comes in all shapes and sizes—and species.

Residents of an East London neighborhood got quite a surprise earlier today when police knocked on the door to say a decades-old bomb had been discovered in the area.

Everyone from New England Patriots’ coach Bill Belichick to Tupac Shakur has supposedly read the 2500-year-old text’s 13 chapters on the 13 aspects of warfare.

While some World War II soldiers were storming the beaches of Normandy, others were busy drafting posters to school soldiers on the dangers of venereal diseases.