Some might argue that the first tales of espionage ever put to print are in the Old Testament, but as a genre, spy stories — fiction and nonfiction — appeared alongside the emergence of the world’s first great powers. At the turn of the 20th century, ...
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‘In the Blood’: How Jack Carr Used His Time as a SEAL Sniper To Create His Most Action-Packed Book
Since Jack Carr’s debut novel The Terminal List first hit shelves in 2018, the retired Navy SEAL has released a sequel to his James Reece series of military thrillers annually. His latest, In the Blood, is on sale now, and Carr is upping the action. ...
‘The Yank’: New Book Recounts Recon Marine’s Journey Into the IRA
The sun crested the horizon beyond South Armagh, Ireland, casting a sheet of pink and yellow light over the surrounding fields. Lying in the cold, wet grass, John Crawley rested his cheek against the buttstock of his rifle. A patrol of British ...
Silence & Light’s Brad Thomas: Retired Operator Turned Emerging Rock ’N’ Roll Star
Being musically inclined from the time he can remember, Brad Thomas feels he was destined to pursue a career in music. But he put that destiny on hold to serve an even greater purpose — joining the military. Thomas knew he wanted to be part of the ...
5 Times Air Force Vet George Carlin Proved He Was Way Ahead of His Time
The legendary comedian George Carlin died 14 years ago this week. An Air Force veteran, Carlin began his career in entertainment after leaving the service in 1957 with a general discharge. (Though he served in the military for just three years, he ...
5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know: ‘Black Hawk Down’
Black Hawk Down, Ridley Scott’s blockbuster celebration of the modern American war machine, hit theaters just four months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The coincidental timing meant that the film premiered to audiences brimming with patriotism ...
John Wayne and ‘The Longest Day’: 5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know
It’s been 78 years since Allied forces took to the skies and beaches of Normandy, France, in the first major step toward the liberation of Europe. In the nearly eight decades since that monumental undertaking, countless movies and television shows ...
Tim Kennedy Reveals What the Fall of Kabul Was Really Like in New Memoir
Green Beret. Sniper. Combat veteran. Television star. Cop. Firefighter. Professional UFC fighter. These are just some of the many titles that apply to Tim Kennedy. And now, with the release of his new memoir, Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically ...
‘Kenobi’ Series Originally Had an Even Darker Vision of Darth Vader
Disney’s new Obi-Wan Kenobi series has officially hit the halfway point, and one thing is kyber-crystal clear: Darth Vader is out for blood. Everyone’s favorite Force-choking villain is back with a vengeance. And yet apparently this version of Vader ...
Coffee or Die Magazine Wins 3 Journalism Awards for 2021 Afghanistan, Ukraine Reporting
The Military Reporters & Editors Association (MRE) announced the winners of its 2022 journalism contest on Thursday, June 2, recognizing journalists in 11 categories, with three honorable mentions. The recipients of this year’s awards come from a ...
How ‘Stranger Things’ Reminded the World of the Vietnam War’s Forgotten Agent Orange Casualties
The highly anticipated fourth season of Netflix’s smash hit Stranger Things is finally streaming, and fans are raving. Sitting at an impressive 91% fresh from both critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, the latest installment of the nostalgic ...
‘We Own This City’ Is Actually a Critique of the War on Drugs
There’s a tragic moment in the final episode of We Own This City when Baltimore Police Detective Sean Suiter, played by Jamie Hector, makes the fateful choice to take his own life and stage it as a line-of-duty death. Suiter, shown momentarily hiding ...
Jodie Foster Leads Cast of HBO’s Arctic-Based ‘True Detective: Night Country’
Jodie Foster will star in the leading role of the next installment of the HBO anthology True Detective. The two-time Oscar-winning actress will play Detective Liz Danvers in the fourth season of the show, titled True Detective: Night ...
‘Heroes Live Here’ — Marine Corps Veteran’s Book Is a Love Letter to Camp Pendleton
For Marine Corps veteran Amy Forsythe, Camp Pendleton always felt like home — a place from which she'd stepped off for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and to which she returned months later, exhausted and relieved to see the familiar hills, palm ...
The Goodfella: A Look Back at Ray Liotta’s Best Movie Roles
Ray Liotta, the famous actor best known for his roles in crime dramas, died Thursday, May 26, in the Dominican Republic at the age of 67. He leaves behind a daughter and a fiancee. Liotta caught his big break in Martin Scorsese’s 1990 gangster ...
The True Story Behind ‘Jaws’ and the Man Who Bagged the Largest Great White
As Americans watched the fighting of World War I unfold overseas, a sensational story out of New Jersey temporarily ripped the war from the headlines. An enormous shark of unknown origin had finally been caught off the coast of New Jersey. The ...
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ — Why You Need To See the Year’s Best Action Movie in Theaters
The sequel to the 1986 smash-hit Top Gun has been decades in the making, but after years of delays, the air-combat movie is finally soaring into theaters this week behind a promotional blitzkrieg led by Tom Cruise. Every poster for the new ...
50 Years Later, Kid From ‘Jaws’ Named Police Chief on Martha’s Vineyard
The young prankster from Jaws — seen scaring Amity Island beachgoers with a fake great white dorsal fin — is all grown up, and he will soon be made a police chief on Martha’s Vineyard. Nearly 50 years after starring in the iconic hoax scene from ...
Chris Pratt Is a SEAL on the Warpath in New ‘Terminal List’ Teaser
Chris Pratt emerges from the surf, ready to deliver violent retribution in the new teaser for The Terminal List. The latest trailer for the upcoming Amazon Prime series, starring Pratt and Taylor Kitsch, just dropped, and it looks brutal. The two ...
Jon Bernthal Professes Love for Police While Promoting HBO’s ‘We Own This City’
Jon Bernthal delivers one of television's most accurate and humanizing performances of a corrupt cop in HBO’s new hit-miniseries We Own This City. The Hollywood A-lister, best known for his roles in The Punisher, Fury, and The Walking Dead, spent ...
Sound & Fury: The 10 Best War Songs Ever Written
Just about every generation in America has its own war, and its own war songs along with it. While most of the American public will never directly experience war, they can get some sense of what combat is like through art, photography, and ...
Marine and Author Phil Klay on His Latest Book and Endless War
Nearly a decade after Phil Klay’s debut book Redeployment won the National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the bestselling author and Iraq War veteran returns with his first venture into ...
Air Force Hijacks ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ To Recruit Future Fighter Pilots
Fans are screaming for Top Gun: Maverick to hit theaters in a couple of weeks after years of delays. The long-awaited sequel stars Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, and Jennifer Connelly, and will also see Val Kilmer return as Iceman, although it's unclear ...
‘Revision of a Man’: Army Vet Uses Poetry To Tackle Manliness in the Modern Age
By traditional standards, Matt Smythe is as manly as they come. If he weren’t a dedicated father, he might live alone in a cabin in the woods or on a mountain. That doesn't arise out of a disdain for other people, but his insatiable desire to be ...
U2 Frontmen Hold Surprise Subway Station Concert in War-Torn Kyiv
Bono and the Edge, frontmen for the Irish rock band U2, performed a surprise concert in Ukraine yesterday. The two rock stars traveled to Kyiv, where they put on a concert in the Khreshchatyk metro station to show solidarity with the embattled ...
When Val Kilmer Claimed To Understand War Better Than Veterans
Actors are often known for their unorthodox behavior. Just look as far as this week's MetGala and you won’t need any more convincing that actors aren’t like the rest of us. Wild outfits and peculiar lifestyles are nothing new when it comes to ...
Leading From the Front: 5 Excellent Military Movie Leaders
Hollywood often portrays military leaders as crotchety old men, incompetent snot-nosed kids, or authoritarian assholes that just get in the way. Spot on! We’re kidding. Well, mostly. (We’re looking at you senior leaders who continually fail to ...
5 of the Best Movie Dogfights To Hold You Over Until ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
In less than a month, Tom Cruise will finally soar back into theaters in Top Gun: Maverick, and if you’re anything like us, you’ve probably been chomping at the bit to see some badass dogfights. With Maverick getting pushed back several times ...
‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ — First Look Reveals a Nunchaku-Wielding Keanu Reeves
Everyone’s favorite dog-avenging action hero is back, and this time he’s toting an iconic Okinawan weapon: nunchaku. Keanu Reeves seems to have found the role he was made for in the form of John Wick. The 57-year-old Canadian actor has starred in ...
Viking Legend Behind New Movie ‘The Northman’ Also Inspired ‘Hamlet’
At 6 feet 4 inches tall, Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård’s towering figure makes for a perfect on-screen Viking berserker. In Robert Eggers’ new film The Northman, Skarsgård dons his wolfskin and teams up with Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, Nicole ...