Memphis, Tennessee. April 1973. Elvis Presley sat in his Graceland office at 2 in the morning, staring at a document that would explain…
December 19th, 1944. Verdun, France. 16 senior Allied commanders sit inside a freezing operations room. Just 50 m to the north. The Battle…
December 16th, 1944. If General George S. Patton had not made one phone call, if he had not spoken four impossible words, the…
There is a moment in special operations that every soldier dreads more than a firefight. It is the moment of recognition. When you…
Here is what a senior American special operations commander wrote in a classified internal memo in the spring of 2006. He did not…
The temperature was 4° C when the contact report came in. Not the kind of cold that reminds you to put on a…
That’s how it’s done, mate, said one of the SPS operators to the Yanks. This is how the SPS finished what the Yanks…
November 2001, the Hindu Kush Mountains, northern Afghanistan. High above the jagged snowdusted peaks, the hum of American Predator drones and the distant…
In January 2005, American soldiers arriving at a forward operating base in Iraq were given a simple briefing about the British operators they…
On September 2nd, 2008, in a valley in Uruguan Province, Afghanistan, an Australian SAS trooper named Mark Donaldelsson was running beside a convoy…