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by Greg Chabot “Would I trust my life to this upper?” Here’s the verdict. The AR15 family has been around since 1956 and is a battle proven design. It has always used the direct impingement system which is very reliable and simple, with the one caveat being the bolt and …

by Susan Katz Keating Graphic combat imagery circulating through exile networks raised a darker possibility. The money may have mattered less than identifying who would give it – and who would not. “What do you make of these, Jocko?” I slid the packet across the table as he set down …

The Gustav gun needed a crew of 2,000 men to operate it. The German Schwerer Gustav rail gun was the largest artillery piece created during the Second World War and was the only Nazi wonder weapon to be used in combat against the Russians. The concept of the super gun …

by Austin Lee In the pre-dawn haze of June 13, 1933, a quiet field near Magenta, Italy erupted into chaos. A bell-shaped craft, 10 meters wide, tore through the night sky. Its metallic hull glowed like molten starlight before slamming into the Earth and leaving a smoldering crater. Locals whispered …

by Susan Katz Keating China and other foreign actors are using Ukraine as a testbed, deploying cut-outs and deniable assets to gather real-time data on drones, intelligence sources told Soldier of Fortune. The grainy figures moved across the screen, creeping through murky terrain like shadows come to life. A blip …

by Susan Katz Keating The investigation into Fancy Bear and Boston’s hidden seams continued with a meeting, a sealed envelope, and an old warning from Northern Ireland. It’s not a bomb. It can’t be a bomb. I stood by the window, watching the envelope from across the room. It lay …

by Cliff Wade It was the kind of place where a man earned his name on a bracelet for all eternity.  Iraq, September 2007 In an attempt to win over hearts and minds, we would sometimes be tasked with delivering humanitarian assistance (HA) to local villages or neighborhoods. We would …

by Susan Katz Keating It wasn’t the bombs that kept bringing me back. It was the warnings. “It’s an old story,” I said. “It’s not.” He wasn’t arguing. He was correcting. “The Boston office is working it,” he said, leaning forward. “I’m telling you.” We had been talking for 20 …

by Susan Katz Keating The war did not end when Saigon fell. It moved home, where those who fought in the jungles, skies, and waters of Southeast Asia reshaped American law, medicine, and culture. Fifty-one years ago today, the last American helicopters lifted off a rooftop in Saigon. The war …

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. …