Loughgall: The Ambush That Broke the IRA’s East Tyrone Brigade
May 8, 1987, the British Army’s Special Air Service laid a deadly ambush for an IRA active service unit attacking Loughgall RUC station in County Armagh, resulting in the single greatest loss of life ...
19 Aug 3min
The Villa in Mosul: The Hunt for Uday and Qusay Hussein
July 2003, a joint task force built around Delta Force operators and the 101st Airborne converged on a villa in Mosul where Saddam Hussein’s two sons had been hiding since the fall of Baghdad. What fo...
16 Aug 3min
De Oppresso Liber: How a Beret Became a Legend”
In 1953, a small group of Army officers started wearing an unauthorized piece of headgear in defiance of their own chain of command — and it eventually became one of the most recognized symbols in mil...
11 Aug 5min
The Kill That Broke Zarqawi: How Delta and the SAS Finally Got Him
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi spent years slaughtering civilians, beheading hostages, and stoking sectarian war in Iraq while slipping through every net. In June 2006 a small Delta Force surveillance team, bac...
3 Aug 5min
The Uranium Option: SEALs, Rangers, and the Iran Contingency
Reports say U.S. planners examined a high-risk special operations mission to secure or destroy Iran’s enriched uranium using Navy SEALs and Army Rangers. We walks through what that kind of operation w...
29 Jul 4min
Operation Cactus: The Night India Airlifted a Parachute Brigade 2,000 Kilometers and Ended a Coup in Hours
In November 1988, roughly 80 Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries from PLOTE seized key points in the Maldivian capital and tried to overthrow President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. India answered the distress call ...
27 Jul 5min
Under Fire: Navy Airman Ryan Blackwell’s Tactical Survival
When an active shooter turned a military installation into a combat zone, Navy Airman Ryan Blackwell found himself staring down the barrel of a weapon. Drawing on base-level readiness and pure instinc...
20 Jul 44min
