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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 …

by Sean “Sako” Sakinofsky It is probably one of the most debated topics in regard to camouflage patterns and fatigues. How did Tiger Stripe Pattern Camouflage come into being? Its origins are not American but rather French and Vietnamese. It sounds more like a cuisine than combat fatigues. However, all …

by Gatimu Juma With civilians trapped and time running out, French Foreign Legion and Belgian paratroopers jumped into Zaire in 1978. The French segment was known as operation Bonite. CAPE TOWN BUREAU – The doors opened in the skies over Zaire, and the Legionnaires stepped into empty air. Below them …

by Robert M. Kurtz Excerpted from Mercenaries, Gunslingers, and Outlaws: Two Years as a Security Contractor in Iraq. Whoever set up the last IED that directly targeted my vehicle showed a little more ingenuity than usual. We were somewhere just outside of Bagdad; all the convoys seem to run together …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating The images are so gruesome I won’t post them. But they’ve been flooding my inbox, as if I didn’t already know that men are getting chewed up on the battlefields of Ukraine and Russia. These particular images come from a social media account that claims to …

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 …

The crew of Little Eva bailed out of their B-24 Liberator over northern Australia in 1942. They spent the next four months trying to get out through flooded wilderness, tidal coastline, and river country. Not everyone made it. by Jose Campos The trees caught him hard enough to stop the …

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 …

The Germans thought they were under attack by an entire force. In reality, the chaos came from a lone Canadian moving through the dark. by Jose Campos The Germans heard him before they saw him. Grenades detonating one after the other in the dark, machine gun fire, the crackle of …

by Susan Katz Keating What began as questions about activity in Boston evolved into a wider Soldier of Fortune investigation involving operational warnings, networks, and patterns hiding in plain sight. Some stories don’t arrive fully formed. They come in pieces: a source leaning forward across a table, a sealed envelope …