National Museum of Intelligence and Special Operations Receives $10 Million Gift from The Starr Foundation
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Society announced a $10 million lead gift to the National Museum of Intelligence and …
Military History
Activating War Plans Rainbow 5 and Indigo 3
September 1941 was a watershed month for neutral America’s military policy. Prior to June 1941, in an acknowledgment of Japanese …
DARPA: The Innovation Icon at 60
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an “innovation icon.” It has created many breakthrough technologies that have revolutionized …
Retreat, Hell! We Just Got Here!
In 1918, World War I was in its fourth year. Imperial Russia had succumbed to the Communist Revolution and capitulated …
X-20 Dyna-Soar Spaceplane Was Decades Ahead of Its Time
Decades before the space shuttle, U. S. Air Force officers and scientists were working on the Dyna-Soar, a single-pilot, reusable …
DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 1958-2018
Faircount is honored and delighted to aid DARPA in celebrating their 60th Anniversary this year with the release of DARPA: …
Dr. Christian Lambertsen
During World War II, one of the greatest of the many great challenges facing the Allies was the means of …
Operation Torch: YBSOB Decoded
One of the most critical issues facing the Allies in 1942 was where to open a second front in the …
William J. Donovan and the Office of Strategic Services
“Strategy, without information upon which it can rely, is helpless. Likewise, information is useless unless it is intelligently directed …
The Americans on D-Day | Photos
On the anniversary of D-Day, we bring to you a selection of photographs as seen in The Americans on D-Day: …