Shock & Awe. What started as a military operation with one simple aim led to a chain of events with terrible consequences.
Nuclear close calls: How the Cold War brought the world to the edge of destruction and how we seem to follow the same path once again.
The Hmeimim airbase has been the subject of a lot of attention in the past weeks with the Russian government signing a lease agreement approved by Damascus. What does it all mean? How important is...
A shadow alliance between two the globe's superpower's has lead to an ear of new cooperation in the form of a shared belief that the Kurdish people are mutually beneficial in the fight against Islamic extremism and despots in the Middle East.
Height 776 in Chechnya : 6th Company’s last stand. August 1999 marked the start of the second Chechen war. The first Chechen war of 1994-1996 had ended in humiliation for Russia. Its armed forces had...
Rare footage of a joint U.S. and Iraqi Special Operations forces hostage rescue raid, Sadr City.
The 2nd Tank Battalion conducted marksmanship qualifications during a month-long field exercise and these images are the spectacular results.
Amidst the utter destruction, chaos, and terror that has been brought upon the people of Syria, the cause of the conflict has fallen by the wayside.
During the exercise M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks and AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopters engaged older mine-resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles for practice. The targets had symbolic meaning, showing the American public and the world that the U.S. military is pivoting towards conventional warfare and away from counterinsurgency operations.
In the fight to defeat Daʿesh, air-strikes, though not a bad start, will not be enough to finish the job, and inevitably, at some point, “Boots-on-the-Ground” will be needed; but the question remained; “Who will supply them?”