The American officer arrived on foot. No vehicle, no radio, no unit. He had walked out of a collapsing front line through the…
During the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese government filed a formal diplomatic accusation against the United States. Not for Napom, not for Agent…
Arlington National Cemetery, the most sacred ground in the American military. The Sentinels of the Old Guard walk their post 24 hours a…
When people talk about the weapons of the Vietnam War, they usually mention helicopters, napalm, and the M16 rifle. And those were indeed…
16 seconds. That was all it took for a four-man entry team to clear a reinforced compound on the edge of Rammani. 16…
The night air in Bakuba Diala province was still and thick with tension. Four men from the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment prepared…
In the summer of 1966, at a dusty American military compound in Bian Hoa, South Vietnam, a United States Army colonel looked across…
In 1988, soldiers from Russia’s Spettznaz stood on a training field in Alaska facing American special forces operators. It was one of the…
December 1939, Collar River, Finland. A Soviet patrol of 12 soldiers moves carefully through the snow-covered forest. The temperature is 30° below zero.…
Sometime around 2002, on a forward operating base in Afghanistan, an American sergeant issued an order that no one in his unit had…