Warren Gray

About the author

Warren Gray is a retired US Air Force intelligence officer with experience in joint special operations and counterterrorism. He served in Europe (including Eastern Europe) and the Middle East, earned Air Force and Navy parachutist wings, four college degrees, and was a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Intelligence Operations Specialist Course and the USAF Combat Targeting School. He is currently an author and historian, with seven published books and 245 published articles.

The Russia-Ukraine Shadow War: Duel of Assassinations

As Moscow reels from yet another high-level hit, the shadow war between Russian and Ukrainian intelligence services is spilling far beyond the battlefield and into a ruthless campaign of targeted killings that risks becoming a self-sustaining spiral of retaliation.

Shooting the Walther P22Q Tactical with Suppressor

A lightweight trail companion turned utterly reliable through careful tuning and testing, my Walther P22Q has proven that even a modest .22 can deliver confidence, precision, and quiet capability when it matters most.

Red Wolf Long-Range Missiles for Marine Corps AH-1Z Vipers

A six-foot, turbojet-powered mini-cruise missile that flies nap-of-the-sea out past 200 miles for roughly the price of a JAGM, Red Wolf gives Marine Corps Vipers a way to hit ships, radars, and missile sites from well outside the danger ring and in numbers that actually matter.

Ukraine’s Drone-Killer, An-28 Aerial Gunship

A civilian Antonov turned night-fighting gunship now prowls Ukraine’s skies, proving that ingenuity and a minigun can swat down swarms of cheap Russian drones far more efficiently than million-dollar missiles.

Russia Abandons Key Island Near Kherson, Ukraine

Ukrainian forces destroyed the Konkivskyi bridge just north of Oleshky on March 15, 2025, severing a critical Russian supply route and forcing enemy units to abandon observation posts on Oleksiivskyi Island under sustained artillery and drone pressure.

Putin’s Horse Cavalry Wiped Out in Ukraine

What was sold as a modern, mechanized campaign has devolved into Russian troops riding horses and packing donkeys through a drone-infested kill zone, a bleak and unmistakable sign that Moscow’s war machine is exhausted, improvising with animals because steel, fuel, and time have all run out.

Operation Vengeance: The Yamamoto Raid

At treetop height over the Coral Sea, with fuel gauges bleeding toward empty and silence enforced by secrets that could not survive daylight, a handful of P-38 pilots flew straight into history to cut down the architect of Pearl Harbor.

The Strategic Importance of Greenland

Greenland is not a frozen backwater or a real estate fantasy, but a silent tripwire for nuclear war where minutes matter, mistakes are irreversible, and the uneasy balance between deterrence and catastrophe rests on ice, radar, and human judgment.