March 2002, Paktia Province, Afghanistan. A US commander, fresh off watching Australian SASR troopers move through mountain terrain that had just swallowed American…
1968 Fuokto Toy Province, Vietnam. American soldiers who served there describe a pattern they could never fully explain. Australian SAS patrols would vanish…
Four nations called the target unreachable. Britain sent what was left. The target was reached. Britain had not been the first choice. The…
Sunday, 29 April 1945, 10 miles northwest of Munich, Germany. Units of the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division enter Dachau, the first…
April 1940, Norway German troops enter the country, and within weeks military defeat turns into a system of control built on fear,…
Sunday 22 June 1941. At dawn, German forces attack the Soviet Union and begin a war that is fought not only against…
The desert does not forgive mistakes. It does not negotiate, does not slow down, and does not care how well trained you are.…
There are operations that governments deny happened. There are missions that never officially occurred, that never appeared in official records, that were never…
Two men in a fiberglass canoe worth,00 penetrated a defensive perimeter that three nuclear attack submarines, 17 surface combatants, and a carrier strike…
September 1968. Beverly Hills, the Estes Zipper Motor Company on Wilshire Boulevard. Cheap Thrills had just gone to number one. Janis Joplin had…