Loose Rounds #5 - Field Rations
Members of the military oftentimes talk about how little they need to get by. Without the creature comforts the everyday person may come to expect. But there's one thing they've needed from the first ...
18 Jun 201834min
Loose Rounds #4 - Communications
Until someone invents a solution to time travel, distance on the battlefield will define how wars are fought. Communications have attempted to solve for this problem since wars first began: first with...
18 Mai 201835min
Loose Rounds #3 - Logistics
Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. Right? In the third episode of the series, Adin and Staffer discuss the incorporation of logistics into professional militaries and how, in some wa...
16 Apr 201839min
2.9 - The Once and Future Sniper
What's the quality that defines a sniper? Is it the pulling of the trigger? The skilled stalking of their target in the hours or days prior to making a shot? The mathematical and physics-based knowled...
9 Apr 201834min
Loose Rounds #2 - Blood Transfusions
For something so central to our lives, the role of blood wasn't something we could explain for much of our history. We knew it was important, and when someone was bleeding out on the battlefield, you ...
19 Mar 201835min
2.8 - The White Feather
In the Vietnam War, snipers returned to some of their earliest environmental roots while simultaneously reaching the pinnacle of their development: taking part in long missions, independently, where h...
5 Mar 201833min
Loose Rounds #1 - Mortars
In our first episode of Loose Rounds, a mini-series produced in partnership with Nammo, we discuss the humble mortar. You know, the tubes that fire grenade-looking munitions into the air? It turns out...
19 Feb 201838min
Loose Rounds Trailer
On War Stories, we often focus on what's happening at the proverbial tip of the spear: the latest and greatest, at least for the time, weapons platforms, how militaries shifted their fighting styles t...
12 Feb 20185min
