The Badge Nobody Can Take From You Twice- Navy Seals
Every insignia is a confession dressed up as a decoration. This one was built from an eagle, a pistol, an anchor, and a god’s weapon, and it still gets pulled off a man’s chest when he stops earning i...
27 Aug 4min
The Death of Imad Mughniyeh: How a Car Bomb in Damascus Ended a 25-Year Manhunt
On February 12, 2008, Hezbollah’s chief of international operations, Imad Mughniyeh, was killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria, in an operation widely attributed to a joint effort between Israel’s M...
23 Aug 3min
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
Seventeen Seconds Near Ramadi: The Delta Force Rescue That Ended Without a Shot
In June 2004, A Squadron of Delta Force executed one of the cleanest hostage rescues of the early Iraq War, freeing four captives in roughly seventeen seconds with no shots fired. This episode reconst...
9 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
