The Women’s National Basketball Association has officially reached its absolute boiling point. The gloves have come off, the pleasantries are dead and buried,…
The sports world loves a good underdog story. We are constantly fed the romanticized narrative of labor unions fighting valiantly against billionaire ownership…
In the history of professional sports labor disputes, the script is almost always identical. The wealthy, billionaire team owners are cast as the…
By September 1941, the standard German infantry squad advancing into Ukraine carried nine carabiner 98K bolt-action rifles, each requiring the shooter to manually…
August 11th, 1943. Somewhere on the Ukrainian step, T34s of the First Guard’s tank army race across open ground at 30 kmh. Their…
October 6th, 1941. A German PAC 36 anti-tank crew outside Men lines up a perfect broadside shot on a Soviet tank. They fire.…
On June 22nd, 1941, 3,300 German tanks crossed the Soviet frontier in three massive army groups, initiating Operation Barbar Roa. Within 6 months,…
In early 1940, VG Grabin initiated design work on a 57mm anti-tank gun at artillery factory number 92, confronting a calculation that would…
Between 1930 and 1941, Soviet military planners calculated they would need to arm millions of men in the event of a major European…
On June 22nd, 1941, the Vermach launched Operation Barbar Roa with approximately 3,000 tanks and 7,000 artillery pieces across a 2,900 km front.…