Brain Buckets, Tin Hats, and Steel Pots: Helmets Have Improved Over Nearly a Century of Use
It’s hard not to get a sickening feeling, staring at photographs of all the gallant young soldiers, resplendent in their …
Military History
The Christmas Truce, 1914
The Imperial War Museum photograph captures the oddity of the Christmas Truce, where British and German troops met in no …
Hitler’s Winter Blunder
On Nov. 8, 1941, Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels published an article in the magazine Reich that called …
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 …
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 …