A few hundred Australians against 5,000 Chinese soldiers. The odds 1 to 10. A vertical assault on a fortress that the Americans couldn’t…
“Don’t Step In Their Tracks”—Why US Green Berets Were FORBIDDEN From Following Australian SAS Patrol
1967, a classified briefing room in Vietnam. 12 American Green Berets, the most elite soldiers the United States had to offer, receive an…
The Rogue Allies: How Australian SAS HIJACKED US supply convoys to build their own “Illegal” arsenal
March 1967, a US Army convoy vanishes three miles off its designated route. 14 crates of M16 rifles gone. Eight cases of claymore…
One sentence from a declassified afteraction summary kept showing up in different forms, whispered in unit bars, hinted at in memoirs, and carefully…
They called them Maang, the jungle phantoms. And if you were a Vietkong fighter in Puaktui province, those two words were the last…
“Throw That Trash Away” —What the SASR Commander Told a Green Beret About His US-Issued Survival Kit
Five words. That’s all it took to humiliate the most elite soldier America had ever produced. A green beret, a graduate of Fort…
Jacob Thornton started digging into the hillside behind his cabin in March 1876. And by the time neighbors realized what he was building,…
Neighbors laughed at his underground shelter beneath his cabin until his firewood stayed dry. October rain hit the Willilamett Valley like it always…
North Dakota Territory, October 1883. Lars Hendrickson, a Norwegian immigrant who’d claimed 160 acres near what would become Pembina, was doing something his…
Thomas Whitmore carved his first foot into the limestone hillside on a Tuesday morning in June 1885, and by noon half the men…