MILITARY
Chelsea Manning's Final Plea to Be Seen
On the heels of a last appeal to President Obama for clemency, Manning tells Broadly about her struggle for visibility and justice.
LGBTQ Canadians Sue Government for Decades-Long Witch Hunt
A former sailor said he was strapped to a polygraph machine and forced to admit he was gay.
The Truman Show: 55 Hours Aboard US Aircraft Carrier Harry S. Truman
"A lot of people lose their shit out here."
Driving a Tank Is a Bizarre Power Trip
Why would anyone want to drive a decommissioned tank around the countryside of what used to be East Germany? Why not?
People Show Us Their Old Love Letters
Why save a piece of paper that's been filled with ephemeral emotions?
Photos of Fresh-Faced New Army Recruits in Training
What you learn from watching army rookies spend three months surviving in the wilderness and coming to terms with death as an occupational hazard.
A US Military Base Could Kill Off Japan’s Last Dugongs
The Japanese island of Okinawa is the last holdout for dugongs. Now Camp Schwab is set to build new runways over their feeding ground.
We Asked a Military Expert What the Hell Putin Is Up to in Syria
Sure, we'd all like to see Putin take on the Islamic State in a steel cage—but we asked an expert what he wants, realistically.
Revealed: The Former US Military Top-Brass Working for Companies Profiting from Drone Warfare
There's a revolving door between the US army and the companies paid multi-million dollar contracts to support drone warfare.
The Dangerous Lives of Colombian Mangrove Clam Collectors
Because of the agility required, many of the collectors are children.
The US Military Euthanised or Abandoned Thousands of Their Own Canine Soldiers at the End of the Vietnam War
After the war ended, the US military marked their dogs as "expendable surplus equipment," leaving them to the South Vietnamese or euthanising them.