Marine Corps Fight Club: Marines Use Wargaming to Hone Cognitive Skills In warfare, outthinking the enemy is a critical component to outmaneuvering them. In order to best tip the scales of victory...
12 Retro Video Games to Bring You Closer to Your First Sergeant (If That’s Something You Want) Here are 12 games to shake the dust off to try to put yourself in your salty senior noncommissioned officer’s worn-out old...
These Fitness Video Games Might Actually Help Your PT Score You do some workouts, take some steps, throw some imaginary balls, and the game gives you a quick burst of dopamine to keep...
5 Video Games Worth Using as ‘Hip-Pocket Training’ There’s a thing in the Army called hip-pocket training. It’s training, usually at the noncommissioned officer (NCO) level...
Advocates and Gaming Companies Want More Research on Gambling Addiction in Military The group behind the 1-800-GAMBLER hotline has asked Congress to fund federal research on problem gambling among troops and...
How Tabletop War Games Build Strategy and Community Where modern games such as “Risk” reduce the complicated mechanics from those early games to make them easier to play...
The 10 Best Video Games to Drop You into Medieval and Fantasy Warfare Want to enjoy a nice weekend of castles, damsels and armored himbos? Grab a controller and pull up a chair; we’re going to...
What if Future Wars Were Fought by Mercenaries and Giant Robots? “MechWarriors 5: Clans” and its new expansion, “Ghost Bear: Flash Storm,” imagines intergalactic combat in 3050 with a...
An Alternate-History Channel on Reddit Is Gaming Out a Shockingly Realistic Second US Civil War Alternate history is fiction that imagines what would be different if some specific event was changed. A new alt-history...
'Call of Duty: Black Ops II' Is Coming True in Weird Ways Black Ops players are noting some weird coincidences between the 2025 in the game and the real 2025, such as stock-market...
The US Military Will Risk Everything for Its Own. Here’s Why The rescue of downed U.S. airmen in Iran shows why “leave no one behind” still defines the military, and why it matters for...
These Actors Grew Up as Military Children. It Shaped Everything These 10 actors were raised in military families. Their upbringing didn’t just shape their lives—it still influences how they...
You Took Separation Pay Years Ago. Now the VA Wants It Back From Your Disability Check. Under federal law, a veteran cannot receive both separation pay and VA disability compensation for the same period of service...
Could the US Bring Back the Draft? Who Would Be Called First — and Who Qualifies Could the U.S. bring back the draft? Here’s how Selective Service works today, who would be called first and why only about...
3 Big PCS Changes Are Coming at Once. Here’s What Service Members Need to Know Before Peak Season. In 2026, three major changes are affecting military household goods moves: a new permanent agency to run the system, the end...
