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Black Hawk Down - The Battle of Mogadishu 1993
On 3rd October 1993, amid the ongoing Somali Civil War, American forces of Task Force Ranger received a tipoff on the location of a meeting of Mohame…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Putin's 1st Invasion, The Russo-Georgian War 2008
On the 7th of August 2008, Georgian military forces moved into breakaway region of South Ossetia, hoping to capture its capital of Tskhinvali. Under …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Propellers to Jets: The Korean War Dogfights That Changed Air Combat Forever
The Korean War saw significant changes in military aviation in a short period. In June 1950, the aerial war began with piston-driven aircraft of the …
3 months ago
The Commando Raids That Shook Hitler - Operations Claymore and Archery
In March 1941, Operation Claymore, the first large-scale commando raid on Nazi occupied-Europe, was launched against the Lofoten Islands in Norway. T…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Assassination That Started The Soviet-Afghan War
On 27 December 1979, Soviet Spetsnaz commandos backed up by operatives from the KGB’s counterterror units Zenit and Grom attacked the Tajbeg Palace, …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Battle of Peleliu: Taking Bloody Nose Ridge (Part 3)
The Battle of Peleliu grinds on as the Marines of the 1st Marine Division continue to fight the Japanese garrison dug into Bloody Nose Ridge. The fig…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Battle of Peleliu: Across the Airfield (Part 2)
The Battle of Peleliu enters a new deadlier phase as US Marines cross the airfield and fight into the Urmurbrogol Mountain to take the island of Pele…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The Battle of Peleliu: D-Day (Part 1)
In the early hours of 15 September 1944, the guns of an armada of United States Navy warships open fire on a tan, craggy-looking island in the Pacifi…
4 months ago
The Russian Invasion of Crimea 2014
On 27 February 2014, armed and masked men with no insignia or identification begin to appear in Simferopol, the capital of the Autonomous Republic of…
4 months, 1 week ago
Stopping Rommel in the Desert - The First Battle of El Alamein
After defeats at the Battle of Gazala and the fall of Tobruk, the British 8th Army is in full retreat into Egypt at the end of June 1942. Defensive p…
4 months, 2 weeks ago