The first thing the Vietkong usually noticed was not a sound. It was the silence. Jungle insects would stop. Birds would vanish. Somewhere deep in the thick green hills of...
December 10th, 1941. Clark Field, Philippines. Japanese Imperial Army engineers stood around the abandoned American vehicle, pointing and laughing. After years perfecting heavy, complex military trucks weighing over 4,000 lb....
The transmission came through at 1422 hours on a Tuesday afternoon in May 1968, and it nearly got an entire company of Australian soldiers killed. An American brigadier general sitting...
New Gun Bill SF 4290 Sparks Outrage: Could Police Enter Homes Without a Warrant to Inspect Firearms? The Death of the Fourth Amendment? Minnesota’s SF 4290 Proposes Warrantless Home Inspections...
An American colonel walked into a briefing room at NewAtat expecting a routine coordination meeting. He walked out 90 minutes later having questioned everything he thought he understood about the...
December 19th, 1944. Across three combat theaters spanning 6 million square miles, American machine gunners filed 47,000 afteraction reports. The numbers inside those reports would shatter 60 years of military...
In 1941, a 25-year-old Scottish officer named David Sterling was lying in a hospital bed in Cairo with a back injury from a botched parachute jump. He had no authority,...
Hellman Province, Afghanistan, Forward Operating Base, Edinburgh. August 2008. Gunnery Sergeant Dale Harwick, Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, is standing near the wire at 0340 hours when he sees them come...
The American sergeant dropped to one knee and stared at the ground. He had been tracking what he believed was a Vietkong supply column for the better part of 3...
It was a sweltering August evening in 1945, and 10-year-old Elvis Presley was sitting on the front porch of the family’s small shotgun house in Chupelo, Mississippi, supposed to be...