In 1982, a young British paratrooper was dug into a freezing observation post on the hills above Goose Green in the Faulland Islands.…
The first thing the Vietkong usually noticed was not a sound. It was the silence. Jungle insects would stop. Birds would vanish. Somewhere…
December 10th, 1941. Clark Field, Philippines. Japanese Imperial Army engineers stood around the abandoned American vehicle, pointing and laughing. After years perfecting heavy,…
The transmission came through at 1422 hours on a Tuesday afternoon in May 1968, and it nearly got an entire company of Australian…
New Gun Bill SF 4290 Sparks Outrage: Could Police Enter Homes Without a Warrant to Inspect Firearms?
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An American colonel walked into a briefing room at NewAtat expecting a routine coordination meeting. He walked out 90 minutes later having questioned…
December 19th, 1944. Across three combat theaters spanning 6 million square miles, American machine gunners filed 47,000 afteraction reports. The numbers inside those…
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…
Hellman Province, Afghanistan, Forward Operating Base, Edinburgh. August 2008. Gunnery Sergeant Dale Harwick, Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, is standing near the wire at…
The American sergeant dropped to one knee and stared at the ground. He had been tracking what he believed was a Vietkong supply…