Year: 2021

In this episode of Learning Military, we are going to review the National Defense Strategy. Last released in 2018, this government document released by thr Department of Defense under then US Defense Secretary Mattis, showcases […]

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2.053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos […]

Soyuz 1 was a crewed spaceflight of the Soviet space program. Launched into orbit on 23 April 1967 carrying cosmonaut colonel Vladimir Komarov, Soyuz 1 was the FIRST crewed flight of the Soyuz spacecraft. From […]

A Podcast all about fighter planes, military aircraft, and aviation history. We will look at the pilots, designers, engineers, and maintainers who have flown or worked on some of the most iconic aircraft in history. […]

What The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in 1949 to provide collective security against the threat posed by the Soviet Union. It has two official languages, English and French.

On September 22nd 1979, the sensors aboard the U.S. Vela Satellite picked up a distinctive signal somewhere in the vast expanse of the South Atlantic ocean. It was a mysterious “double Flash” of blinding light. […]

A group in Amarillo, Texas, watches everything military that flies over. But back in March of 2014, they spotted a ‘flying Dorito’ aircraft, something they’d never seen before. The Air Force has not confirmed this […]

The Lockheed U-2 might well have been created in the 1950s for the coldwar but it is still going strong 65 years on and has existed beyond the developments of the Lockheed SR-71 and spy […]

The Russian Military has built a network of bases and stations along its northern coast in recent years, while developing new weapons that could hit North America! With the changing of world tensions we absolutely […]

In December of 2020 the cybersecurity company ‘FireEye’ discovered a massive hack that affected over 18,000 customers of SolarWinds. As hundreds of companies and government agencies scrambled to unravel the extent of the intrusion, the […]