There is a moment in special operations that every soldier dreads more than a firefight. It is the moment of recognition. When you are deep in enemy terrain, moving silently...
Here is what a senior American special operations commander wrote in a classified internal memo in the spring of 2006. He did not write it for public consumption. He wrote...
The temperature was 4° C when the contact report came in. Not the kind of cold that reminds you to put on a jacket. The kind of cold that has...
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 couldn’t start. Operation Tetris. 6 years of...
November 2001, the Hindu Kush Mountains, northern Afghanistan. High above the jagged snowdusted peaks, the hum of American Predator drones and the distant roar of B-52 Strata fortresses signaled a...
She Cut My Hair While I Slept So I Wouldn’t “Overshadow” the Bride—But I Had a Plan for the Wedding She Cut My Hair While I Slept So I Wouldn’t...
In January 2005, American soldiers arriving at a forward operating base in Iraq were given a simple briefing about the British operators they might encounter on the compound. Don’t look...
On September 2nd, 2008, in a valley in Uruguan Province, Afghanistan, an Australian SAS trooper named Mark Donaldelsson was running beside a convoy of vehicles that were being shredded by...
There’s a moment in every war that almost nobody talks about. Not the beginning, not the big battles that fill documentaries. I’m talking about the quiet ending when the war...
Spring of 1,945. Across Germany, the night sky glowed with towering columns of fire. The Third Reich collapsed under the roaring thunder of artillery and the fleeing footsteps of those...