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by Alex Quade Diyala Province, Iraq — Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha (A-Team) 072 rolled into the village. It was dead quiet. Nothing moved. Suddenly, “squirters”—people running away from the village and cars leaving at a high rate of speed. Clearly, something of interest was in that village. A-Team Commander …

by Jose Campos They knew the enemy was coming. On that day in March 1971, Army 1st Lt. Brian Miles Thacker and his seven-man team braced for the inevitable. But when the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) launched their assault, it was not a question of whether the firebase would fall …

by Jose Campos SIERRA BLANCA, Texas – The arid landscape outside Sierra Blanca has long been a favored corridor for human smuggling and narcotics trafficking, exploited by organized criminal networks. Now, with U.S. troops in the field, the human part of the landscape has changed. Under orders from U.S. Northern …

Review by Greg Chabot I’m always looking to upgrade my EDC when it comes to edged weapons. Preferring a fixed blade over folders it can sometimes be difficult to find a knife that has mounting options and ease of concealability that a folder can give. I believe I have finally …

by Carole Engel Avriett Excerpted from Midnight in Ironbottom Sound, by Carole Engel Avriett. Editor’s note:  Early on September 5, 1942, the US Navy’s USS Gregory was sunk by Japanese fire near Guadalcanal. One sailor, Mess Attendant 2nd Class Charles Jackson French swam for hours through shark-infested waters while towing …

Book Review by Heath Hansen John Lechner’s Death is Our Business is an intense, no holds barred journey through the history of the most notorious Private Military Companies (PMC) in the world. Yevgeny Prigozhin, once a small time criminal, selling hot-dogs on a street corner and in time growing his …

by Susan Katz Keating Yes or no; Да или нет? Did a Russian assassination team inflict the mysterious Havana Syndrome on American targets, as reputable journalists allege; or has an innocent unit been framed, as Moscow would have us believe? To anyone looking for answers, here is one Red flag …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating What next? Will the protest movement form nationwide soviets? Will they establish a Cheka, to punish and eliminate “enemies of the people?”  It started with petty acts of vandalism that could be dismissed as random mischief. But the anti-Tesla movement has grown into something far more …

by Susan Katz Keating Drones repeatedly are showing up on modern battlefields. But drones in warfare are nothing new – and have a surprisingly long history. During the Civil War, both Union and Confederate forces used a primitive type of drone, attacking the enemy via balloons filled with explosives. Although …

by Hooligan I hoped to shoot the first VC I saw who poked his head over the wall, and at least get his AK to defend myself.  All this while the enemy machine guns were firing and mortars going off. It started out as just another boring Ash & Trash …