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Guy D. McCardle is a sixteen-year veteran of the United States Army and most recently served as a Medical Operations Officer during OIF I and OIF II. He holds a degree in Biology from Washington & Jefferson College and is a graduate of the US Army Academy of Health Sciences. Guy has been a contributing writer to Apple News, Business Insider, International Business Times, and Medical Daily. He has over 8,000 answers and more than 30,000 followers on Quora, where he is a top writer on military topics. McCardle is the Managing Editor of the SOFREP News Team, a collective of military journalists.
Every war brings forth a new, signature way of killing and maiming combatants. Perhaps one of the most devastating weapons in history was mustard gas because not only did it cause an agonizing death, but it also had a profound intent of demoralizing your enemy.
Moscow’s ambassador to Washington has told the United States to stop sending additional arms to Ukraine. He warns that large western deliveries of weapons will pour more fuel on the fire and cause additional deaths on both sides of the conflict.
Ukrainian Special Forces operating behind enemy lines have been smashing supply columns and hobbling the Russian offensive for two months now.
An American citizen and former Marine, Willy Joseph Cancel, has died in Ukraine while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, according to the man’s family. His is the first known death of a US citizen fighting against Russian aggression in Ukraine. He was 22 years old.
Why should you want to know more about the AT-4 anti-armor weapons systems we are sending to Ukraine? Well, for one thing, we are sending over 6,000 of them. So that’s a lot of destructive power headed their way.
More precisely known as the FGM-148 Javelin or Advanced Anti-Tank Weapon System-Medium (AAWS-M), Javelin missiles are part of the multi-billion-dollar military aid package being sent to Ukraine.
Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, has confirmed that Russian forces have fired two missiles into the downtown region of his city.
With the Russian withdrawal from the capital to point east, many displaced residents return to their homes weeks after fleeing for safety. The roads are jammed with citizens in a hurry to get back, but there now is an added attraction that they did not pass on the way out; scores of destroyed Russian vehicles
A video of a Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber aircraft spiraling out of control, apparently over Ukraine, made its rounds on social media yesterday.
Moulage. The art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of simulating real-world experience for emergency medical training.
Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned gas company, said Wednesday that it has cut off the supply 0f natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria. This move will almost certainly escalate economic tensions between Moscow and the West over the war in Ukraine. Russia announced in a statement yesterday that it shut off the gas supply to Bulgaria’s Bulgargaz […]
A large fire erupted in the early hours of the morning near the area of the Druzhba oil depot, an oil storage facility outside the city of Bryansk just 96 miles northeast of its border with Ukraine. Some reports indicated it could be a possible attack by Ukrainian forces.
