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Project Azorian: The CIA’s Audacious Grab for a Sunken Soviet Sub

by Austin Lee It was one of the ballsiest clandestine ops in history: Project Azorian, the CIA mission to snatch a Soviet submarine from the Pacific Ocean’s crushing depths. The haul from the Golf-II-class K-129 was a priceless score for the Americans. The mission also prompted a rare act of …

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Undersea Sabotage: The Hidden War Beneath the Waves

by Jose Campos Explosions ripped through the Baltic Sea in 2022, far from any battlefield, silencing pipelines that carried Russian gas to Germany. Beneath the waves, vital arteries of energy and communication had been transformed into weapons. A Ukrainian man, identified only as Serhii K., is suspected of orchestrating the …

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El Salvador’s Tattoo Dragnet Flipped the Script in War on Gangs 

by Royce de Melo Some meters ahead of me on the left side of the street, two soldiers armed with M16 A1/A2 rifles approach a young man. He definitely caught their attention. As the soldiers in El Salvador calmly walk up to him, the man stops and puts down the …

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Gloves Up, Guns Down: The Cartel Truces of Boxing Night

by Heath Hansen Murders, kidnappings, shootings, and drug trafficking should slow down during the fight. The big fight between Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez and Terence “Bud” Crawford drew tremendous interest among the fans, up until the moment Crawford emerged the victor. This clash and others like it also have had a …

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Russia’s Field-Expedient Bomb Disposal: 44th Army Corps in Action

by A.R. Fomenko VIENNA BUREAU — The men move slowly in single file, scanning the forest floor. They are in Karelia, near Russia’s border with Finland. In footage from one recent patrol, the team encounters a bomb. Like their American and British counterparts, they neutralize the bomb by blowing it up. …

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The Bomb That Couldn’t Be Disarmed: The Harvey’s Casino Extortion Plot

by Jose Campos It started under cover of darkness. In the early hours of an August morning in 1980, three men in white jumpsuits rolled a steel box into Harvey’s Resort Hotel and Casino in Stateline, Nevada. They told casino staff it was an IBM copy machine. It wasn’t. Inside …

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Wrong Turn, Right Tactics: Surviving a Riot From Behind the Wheel

by Greg Chabot You didn’t plan to be there. Most people don’t. But one wrong turn, one blocked exit, or one unexpected surge — and suddenly, you’re in your car in the middle of a riot. Don’t panic. As riot season heats up, here’s what to do if you find …

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Howitzer Thunder: Marines Bring the Fire at Twentynine Palms

by Jose Campos TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — The desert air trembled as Marines unleashed the first rounds from a M777 Howitzer during Service Level Training Exercise this month. Dust plumes curled in the heat, smoke trailing each shell as it streaked toward a distant target. The SLTE is more than …

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How Drones Broke the Rules of War

by Susan Katz Keating A wave of drone attacks lit up targets on June 1 deep inside Russian territory – another clear signal that unmanned warfare is rewriting the rules in real time. But the idea of drones doing the killing – or at least the hunting – isn’t as …

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F-35s Escort Putin’s Plane Out of US Airspace: Kremlin Releases Rare Footage

Through the window of Putin’s presidential jet, two F-35’s slid into formation as they left U.S. airspace. It’s a view almost no one on Earth will ever see. America’s stealth fleet rarely shows itself—let alone escorting a Russian head of state out of U.S. airspace. History at 35,000 feet. The …

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