Afghanistan

He stepped into the open, phone in hand and grit in his teeth, trading the last of his cover for a handful of breaths for his teammates — the kind of small, brutal choice that carves a quiet legend out of an ordinary life.

Where we lived with villagers and tied bottom up security to district and provincial governance, VSO and ALP held ground the centralized model could not, and when support was cut the Taliban wasted no time reclaiming the countryside.

We won the battles in Afghanistan and still lost the war because Washington pursued an unsuitable, unfeasible, and unacceptable project to remake a tribal society while Congress abdicated and our generals saluted.

Polish GROM storms the battlefield like a crack of thunder—swift, unyielding, and impossible to ignore.

MARSOC operators once hunted Taliban on motorcycles, turning enemy tactics into a deadly advantage in Afghanistan’s remote hills.

On August 30, 2021, the US ended its longest war as troops left Kabul, the Taliban celebrated, and history came full circle.

In the hands of a well-trained crew the M252 81mm mortar is a whispering killer that can rain fire nearly six kilometers away with steady, deadly grace.

Extortion 17 wasn’t brought down by some grand conspiracy or hidden failure—it was a tragic, rare hit by enemy fighters who happened to be in the right place at the right time with a lucky shot.

Clint Romesha didn’t fight for glory—he fought for the guy next to him, in a godforsaken valley that the brass called indefensible and he turned into a proving ground for grit.

Twenty years later, Operation Red Wings isn’t some sanitized tale of heroism—it’s a gut-punch reminder that war is messy, men are mortal, and sacrifice doesn’t come with a soundtrack.

This isn’t immigration reform—it’s moral cowardice dressed up as national interest, tossing our Afghan brothers and sisters to the wolves after they carried our water through two decades of war.

The U.S. decision to lift bounties on top Taliban leaders—just days after the release of an American hostage—raises serious questions about whether Washington is quietly shifting from a stance of pressure to one of pragmatic negotiation with a regime still designated as a terrorist organization.