August 1945, Bugenville Island. The war was over, but 23,000 Japanese soldiers refused to surrender, and one Australian commander had to make an…
Midappril 2003, the lead tank commander of the third armored cavalry regiment is rolling towards Al-Assad air base at the head of a…
The map on the Kremlin wall showed unit positions that no longer existed. Red flags marked armies already encircled near Viasma. Blue arrows…
The 163rd Motorized Division crossed the Finnish border like a parade. Brass instruments gleamed in the pale Arctic sun. Propaganda trucks groaned under…
It was the most insulting phrase an American officer could hear from an ally. In September 1967, a decorated US Army Lieutenant Colonel…
March 1965, Borneo. Four SAS men lie motionless in pitch black jungle, 8 m from an Indonesian patrol, holding their breath for 3…
October 1982, Northern Norway. When a fourman Spettznaz patrol discovered an abandoned British position during NATO exercises, they expected to find standard military…
17 seconds. That is how long it took a fourman special air service entry team to clear a compound in eastern Baghdad. From…
In November 2001, eight men jumped from the back of a C130 cargo plane into the freezing Afghan night sky. They were falling…
In 1988, soldiers from Russia’s Spettznaz stood on a training field in Alaska facing American special forces operators. It was one of the…