Alex Hollings

The Marine Corps taught me that sometimes becoming a better man means keeping your word, swallowing your pride, and charging into a frozen Vermont lake wearing a pink nightgown.

America once seriously considered sending special operators behind enemy lines with backpack-sized nuclear weapons, a Cold War plan that somehow managed to be both ingenious and completely insane.

Motivation gets you fired up, but discipline is what drags your ass under the weights on the days you'd rather stay in bed.

A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier explains range procedures to Panamanian counterterrorism security forces Jan. 30, 2018, during joint combined marksmanship training in Panama City, Panama. Marksmanship training is necessary before combined forces conduct interoperability training.

When recounting the stories of Vietnam, we have a tendency to focus the experiences of the ground troops, fighting their way through unforgiving jungles — but the fighting going on above their heads was also surprisingly hard on American forces. While the air conflict should have been one-sided (or so it seemed on paper) many […]

Project Iceworm was a Cold War fever dream made real: a secret nuclear missile base buried beneath Greenland's shifting ice, along with a toxic legacy that may not stay buried forever.

You could easily make a list of amazing facts about the SR-71, but here are three facts about it that even a few aviation nerds may not know.

Sandboxx News makes the complex approachable. Bridging the gap between academic expertise and practical boots-on-the-ground experience, we remove the mystery from conflict and highlight the importance of military service and deterrence-reinforcing technology.

Sandboxx News makes the complex approachable. Bridging the gap between academic expertise and practical boots-on-the-ground experience, we remove the mystery from conflict and highlight the importance of military service and deterrence-reinforcing technology.

Trying to trace America's special operations units back to their roots can be a daunting task, in part because of how we perceive the missions these elite war-fighters carry out. Unconventional warfare may sound like a term describing a manner of fighting that lies outside the traditional methodology employed by the United States military, but the fact of the matter is our nation was forged on battlefields where American patriots employed non-traditional methodologies and mindsets in order to snatch victory from a foe with superior numbers and equipment. In many ways, unconventional warfare has long been an American convention; we simply provided the tactic with a formal organizational structure and began tailoring training to that end in an official capacity in the early 1940s.