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Number 3: Top Gun | Is this 1986 romantic-military drama really a war movie? Let's look at the story: Did Maverick and Iceman go head-to-head with enemy MiGs at the height of the Cold War? Yes. Did they blow them out of the sky or make them bug out? Yes. And was this arguably the best military recruiting tool for Generation X? (checks notes)...Yep - winner for director Tony Scott, and producers by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer.

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Number 8: Glory | The 1989 Civil War film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards and won three, including Denzel Washington for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Private Trip.

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Number 11: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | The 1964 film directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the USSR and the US.

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Number 12: Black Hawk Down | Directed by Ridley Scott in 2001, it is based on the 1999 non-fiction book of the same name by Mark Bowden, chronicling the events of a 1993 raid in Mogadishu by the U.S. military aimed at capturing faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid, and the ensuing firefight, known as the Battle of Mogadishu.

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MSNBC political analyst and former Time magazine managing editor Richard Stengel claimed Thursday, May 21, 2020, that the First Amendment doesn't protect misinformation surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. (screengrab via MSNBC)

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President Trump joked on May 21, 2020, that he wouldn't mind sending a few reporters into space during a press conference Thursday outside the White House. (screengrab via CBS News)

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Well, it wasn't so bad. (Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times)

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Illustration on Communist strategy by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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Football Closed Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Michael McKenna is the president of MWR Strategies. He was most recently a deputy assistant to the president and deputy director of the Office of Legislative Affairs at the White House. Mr. McKenna has joined The Washington Times as a columnist.

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In this file photo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press briefing at the State Department on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, in Washington. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

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Kazakh Control of Virus Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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FILE - In this April 27, 2019, file photo Sean Spicer attends the 2019 White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington. Former White House press secretary Spicer is now a member of the U.S. Naval Academy’s Board of Visitors. Spicer was sworn in Monday, Dec. 2, during a board meeting in Annapolis, Md. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)