War

by Robert Fallon The men of Easy Company could hear the hill before they owned it. Machine guns hammered from above. Rifle fire cracked across frozen Korean ground. The Chinese troops dug into the high ground had the advantage every infantryman wants. They had elevation, cover, and clear fields of …

“So this is how it ends. We were trapped.” Hunted by Russian drones, targeted by tank fire, and cut off from escape, a foreign volunteer recounts the day he expected to die in Ukraine. by Jonathan Stumpf A loud bang, a metallic clang, then blue smoke pours into the small …

In a span of weeks, Sergeant Roy Elderkin converted a group of polo players, Foreign Legionnaires, soldiers, and civilians into highly effective mounted infantry.  by Gatimu Juma The shooting started at 20 yards. Six mounted infantry from a new unit, Grey’s Scouts, were riding through thick Rhodesian thornbush when the …

by Susan Katz Keating It was the largest amphibious assault in the history of warfare, and one of the most decisive military missions of modern times. The outcome of WWII rested upon the success of D-Day – a mission that was long in the making, and shrouded in secrecy until …

by Jose Campos Who fought, where they landed, and how Allied forces cracked Hitler’s Atlantic Wall on June 6, 1944. The Plan Operation Overlord was the largest amphibious invasion in history. Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded more than 156,000 American, British, Canadian, and Allied troops who would …

How do you learn to fly a kamikaze drone? In Russia, one answer lies inside a secretive training program run by Octagon, a drone school linked to remnants of the Wagner Group. Though Wagner technically no longer exists, Octagon claimed to continue running combat drone courses in Russia, even after Wagner …

In January 1943, Soviet infantry crossed the frozen Neva River under direct fire to reopen a land corridor into the starving city. by A.R. Fomenko VIENNA BUREAU – The soldiers lay motionless in the snow at the edge of the ice, their weapons beside them. The men of the Soviet 136th …

by Susan Katz Keating America’s fight in Southeast Asia began before our country knew that a war was unfolding, on a single night when two men were the first to die by enemy fire in Vietnam. It happened on July 8, 1959, in Bien Hoa, some 20 miles outside Saigon. …

The ANZAC landing on April 25, 1915, marked the opening of the Gallipoli campaign in World War I. by Jose Campos Bullets snapped off the shale walls of Shrapnel Gully. Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, stretcher bearer with the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, led his donkey along the narrow track. A …

A classified outpost near Khe Sanh was overrun in the fog. Special Forces Staff Sergeant Jon Cavaiani stayed behind to direct the evacuation and defend Hickory Hill. by Jose Campos He lay beneath a dead man, covered in blood.  Around him, enemy soldiers worked their way through the wreckage of …