Warren Gray

Flying low and hard over the Somme on April 21, 1918, the Red Baron chased a green Camel into Australian guns until Sergeant Cedric Popkin’s cool 200 round burst sent a single .303 round through his heart and the legend hit the beet field eight seconds later.

By carving through refineries, rail, and bomber bases deep inside Russia, Ukraine’s DeepStrike drone campaign is strangling the Kremlin’s war machine at its fuel line and showing how precision hybrid warfare can wreck an empire’s logistics without inviting nuclear catastrophe.

In seventeen days of September 1918, Frank Luke burned a path across the Meuse, torching hydrogen dragons under flak and fighters, dropping three more in flames on his last mission, and dying with a .45 in his hand.

Facing Kaliningrad, Belarus, and a live war next door, Poland is pushing its F-16s to the Viper standard with APG-83 radar, Viper Shield, and standoff punch to hold the line while F-35s spin up.

Standing on Little Round Top’s granite spine for the fifth time, I can still trace where Chamberlain’s exhausted 20th Maine pivoted on cold steel and, against repeated assaults, shattered the Alabama charge and saved the Union flank.

Three fully armed Russian MiG-31s knifed six miles into Estonian airspace toward Tallinn, only to be met by Finnish Hornets and Italian F-35s that herded them out—a brazen, ill-timed probe likely to trigger NATO Article 4 talks and stiffen Western resolve at the worst moment for Putin.

The so-called “Española” brigade—born from Russia’s football hooligan underworld—has become both a neo-Nazi mercenary force and a combat testbed for Moscow’s newest assault rifles in Ukraine.

Born out of the ashes of the Munich Massacre, GSG 9 became the model of modern counterterrorism—disciplined, lethal when required, and a direct inspiration for America’s Delta Force.

Russia’s illegal militarization of Wrangel Island transforms a UNESCO wildlife sanctuary into a forward outpost of Arctic imperialism, threatening both the environment and U.S. national security.

US greenlights $850M ERAM missile sale to Ukraine, boosting long-range strikes while keeping pilots out of Russia’s dense air defenses.

A Ukrainian Yak-52—once a humble trainer—now screams low over Kherson with a rear-seat gunner and a shotgun, turning the sky into a drone-killing skeet range.

From the moment Erieye lit the Super Flanker at 150 miles, our silent Viper stalked in, loosed a single AIM-120C, and wrote a new line in this war’s air combat ledger.