Tales born in the confusion of battle can sometime...  ...ke any other strange tale. For all these reasons, war is full of urban legends, like the one about the...  ...The stories began to circulate during the Chechen Wars , when men would tell of a group of women hired as...  ...io transmissions from the women,...

Egyptian woman kisses policeman who refrained from...  ...Image: tolaire.comWe of countries not ravaged by war , stifled by poverty and rife with lack of human r...

Dolphin used by the U.S. military to perform mine...  ...S. military to perform mine clearance in the Iraq war Sadly, regardless of how barbaric it may be, war is a scourge of humanity that has yet to be eradi...

This mega-post is a combination of several lists f...  ...as Alvin York, who initially tried to avoid World War I by applying for conscientious objector status....  ...nt on to become the most decorated soldier of the war and earned the Medal of Honor for capturing 132 G...  ...E GREEN BERETS (1968)At the height...

Cracked has given us lists of heroic wartime figures quite a few times in the past, and now th...  ..., re-enlisted as a private in time for the Korean War . At Hell Hill, he killed seven enemy soldiers and...

Germany, Austria and Italy are standing together i...  ...month, The Meta Picture posted the story of World War I simplified into a bar fight, with each country...  ...story if you already know what happened in World War I. This retelling has been around for a few years...  ...njoyed this, you might also want to...

Women have been fighters ever since fighting was i...  ...ver allowed, much less invited, to participate in wars and revolutions. But there were always some who t...  ...he credit they deserve. This list has a few women warriors I bet you’ve never heard of, like the Gree...  ...t-strong fleet in the ultim...

[http://youtu.be/0Z38VrjdE_I] (YouTube link)This short film will keep you on the edge of your seat until about two-thirds of the way through, when it makes you breathe a sigh of relief and go all aww. Then in the last se...

In many wars war was over. Most of these can be attributed to slow...  ...re, and the difficulties were only greater during wartime . But that wasn't the only reason the fighting did...  ...idn't stop. Sometime it was hard to define when a war...

In 2005, Jim Sheeler wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winnin...  ...d by the juxtaposition of the eternal stone-faced warrior and the disheveled modern military wife-turned-wi...  ...ories and images that bring home the real cost of war