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The CIA Flew U-2 Spy Planes from Aircraft Carriers (medium.com/war-is-boring)
5 points by vinnyglennon on March 27, 2015 | past
Australia Once Lost a War with the Mighty Emu (medium.com/war-is-boring)
1 point by vinnyglennon on March 21, 2015 | past
When Atomic Annie Went AWOL (medium.com/war-is-boring)
5 points by vinnyglennon on March 4, 2015 | past
I Built an AR-15 in My Kitchen (medium.com/war-is-boring)
8 points by vinnyglennon on Feb 27, 2015 | past
Converted Prop Guns Are Assassins’ Weapon of Choice (medium.com/war-is-boring)
2 points by smacktoward on Feb 26, 2015 | past
‘The Imitation Game’ Distorts Alan Turing’s Legacy (medium.com/war-is-boring)
3 points by Red_Tarsius on Feb 10, 2015 | past
There’s real meaning behind the name ‘Peshmerga’ (medium.com/war-is-boring)
2 points by seivan on Feb 10, 2015 | past
The Soviets Trained to Fight Under Nuclear Detonations (medium.com/war-is-boring)
6 points by vinnyglennon on Feb 9, 2015 | past
Soviet Cosmonauts Carried a Shotgun into Space (medium.com/war-is-boring)
151 points by vinnyglennon on Feb 3, 2015 | past | 55 comments
When to Shoot a Nuclear Bomb with Your Gun (medium.com/war-is-boring)
4 points by smacktoward on Jan 30, 2015 | past
Why young men go to war (medium.com/war-is-boring)
3 points by Trisell on Jan 30, 2015 | past | 1 comment
The Thompson M1A1 Submachine Gun (medium.com/war-is-boring)
46 points by smacktoward on Jan 30, 2015 | past | 64 comments
Just Call This Submachine Gun ‘The Annihilator’ (medium.com/war-is-boring)
2 points by smacktoward on Jan 29, 2015 | past
In the 1940s, the U.S. Navy Launched Planes from Trapezes (medium.com/war-is-boring)
2 points by vinnyglennon on Jan 26, 2015 | past
Hitler’s Flak Towers Were Anti-Aircraft Castles (medium.com/war-is-boring)
2 points by vinnyglennon on Jan 20, 2015 | past
The Comedy the Pentagon Wishes We’d Forget (medium.com/war-is-boring)
3 points by smacktoward on Jan 11, 2015 | past
The U.S. Air Force Has a Spy Ship in the Persian Gulf (medium.com/war-is-boring)
4 points by vinnyglennon on Jan 1, 2015 | past
Signal Intelligence Helped Shoot Down a Third of North Vietnam’s MiG-21s (medium.com/war-is-boring)
30 points by vinnyglennon on Dec 30, 2014 | past | 17 comments
WW1 navy battles in inland East Africa, (medium.com/war-is-boring)
2 points by vinnyglennon on Dec 17, 2014 | past
A White Woman Posed as a Black Man to Infiltrate Confederate Lines (medium.com/war-is-boring)
2 points by vinnyglennon on Dec 5, 2014 | past
Here’s How the US Military Wasted Money in Afghanistan (medium.com/war-is-boring)
4 points by vinnyglennon on Dec 4, 2014 | past | 1 comment
How to nuke a submarine (medium.com/war-is-boring)
95 points by vinnyglennon on Dec 2, 2014 | past | 69 comments
How Britain Beat Germany’s Magnetic Sea Mines (medium.com/war-is-boring)
83 points by commandar on Nov 24, 2014 | past | 9 comments
History offers clues to what the U.S. Air Force’s secretive spaceplane can do (medium.com/war-is-boring)
35 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 31, 2014 | past | 11 comments
The Concrete Battleship (medium.com/war-is-boring)
1 point by vinnyglennon on Oct 22, 2014 | past
The Drones of the World Wars (medium.com/war-is-boring)
1 point by vinnyglennon on Oct 15, 2014 | past
Test an island, not a weapon: direct reason why Greenpeace founded (medium.com/war-is-boring)
1 point by vinnyglennon on Oct 6, 2014 | past
Watch the Navy’s Robotic Gunboats Swarm the James River (medium.com/war-is-boring)
3 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 5, 2014 | past
The Best Handgun Ever Stopped Attackers Cold (medium.com/war-is-boring)
2 points by smacktoward on Oct 2, 2014 | past
The Homemade (and Terrible) Kurdish Tank Army (medium.com/war-is-boring)
2 points by megafounder on Sept 27, 2014 | past

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