by Nikolay Shevchenko It was late evening when a cash truck pulled up in front of a fancy department store on Mozhayskoye Highway in Moscow. Leaving two partners behind in the truck, the third guard stepped over the store’s threshold to collect the cash that had piled up there throughout …

by Cliff Wade Iraq, 2006 We found ourselves in the home of an Iraqi family during a massive clearing operation in an area characterized by terrain varying between urban landscape, farmland, palm groves, and small villages. We had been clearing routes of improvised explosive devices all morning. We had been …

“GRASS IT IF YOU HAVE TO GRASS IT! HIT THE GRASS!” by Mr. Wolf The desert night air hung heavy over Kuwait International Airport as I climbed into the jump seat of the ATR-72. The twin turboprops were already whining to life, their blades slicing through the cooler evening air …

The warning arrived amid the most intense security operation Britain had faced in decades. by A.R. Fomenko VIENNA BUREAU – In the lead-up to the 2012 Summer Olympics, London was bracing for a global spotlight, and a threat environment to match. So when Michael Shrimpton claimed that the games would be …

by Greg Chabot During this time TF- 1/6 soldiers were living in three locations in the city. Troops were at the Provincial Governor’s office known as Blue Dome. And at the Civil Military Operations Center, which had Other Government Agency and Coalition Provisional Authority detachments as well as city offices. And …

During the NSSF SHOT Show this week, Aimpoint announced a significant expansion of its COA pistol red dot sight through a growing network of OEM partners. The COA optic is offered as a factory-installed package, with pistols shipping directly from manufacturers equipped with the optic via Aimpoint’s integrated A-CUT interface. …

The recipe was simple: make a fire; boil water in any metal container at hand; put the ammo in the boiling water; and cook for four to five hours. by Nikolay Shevchenko During the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Russian soldiers were often seen boiling their ammo for hours in a …

Ripped open by a grizzly and abandoned alongside a shallow grave, Glass dragged himself more than 200 miles unarmed through the 1820’s wilderness. by Jose Campos In the late summer of 1823, deep in the unmapped badlands of the Northern Plains, mountain man Hugh Glass was brutally mauled by a …

by Babatim  I couldn’t take being out of the game anymore, so off I went to touch the elephant. I had just cracked open the first beer of the afternoon when I heard the rockets coming in. Wise now to the ways of war I stayed in my lawn chair …

For nearly a decade, Aldrich Ames operated inside the CIA’s counterintelligence core while feeding Moscow the identities of American human sources. His death in federal custody closes the final chapter on a betrayal that reshaped U.S. intelligence. by Jose Campos He didn’t die in a firefight or under interrogation lights. …