August 14th, 2006. Bakuba, Diiala Province. The air is 48° C and it tastes like someone set fire to a landfill. Staff Sergeant…
The air inside the kill house smells of concrete dust and the chemical afterburn of blank rounds. Somewhere behind the ballistic glass of…
In 2006, inside a bunker came the Death Star at Balad Air Base in Iraq, a British special air service officer stood in…
On May 5th, 1980, millions of people across Britain sat in their living rooms watching either a John Wayne Western on BBC 1,…
Private Danny Grieve, second battalion, the Parachute Regiment, 22 years old and 11 months into his first operational tour, was lying face down…
Five men sat in the dirt outside a hanger at Bram Air Base, and not one of them said a word about what…
October 2003, Helmond Province, Afghanistan. The Chinuk dropped the joint task force 3 kilometers east of the target compound at 0217 hours. 12…
Imagine a jungle camp buried so deep in the Indonesian interior that the sun never touches the forest floor. In the center of…
A single ammunition report buried in the classified archives of United States Special Operations Command tells the entire story better than any war…
March 18th, 1962. Elvis Presley walked into a small Memphis church on a Sunday evening, seeking answers to questions that had been haunting…