Shadow Warriors: The Elite, Special Reconnaissance Regiment

Shadow Warriors: The Elite, Special Reconnaissance Regiment

They don’t wear tuxedos or sip martinis, but the men and women of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment are the closest thing the British military has to real-world secret agents—armed with cameras, carbines, and a license to disappear.

Col. (Ret) Nate Slate: Insurgency

Col. (Ret) Nate Slate: Insurgency

We were fighting a war without a front line, where cruelty was as much a weapon as any rifle, and the enemy’s strength lay in finding the weakest point to strike.

US Pulls Out of Three Forward Operating Bases in Syria

US Pulls Out of Three Forward Operating Bases in Syria

U.S. and coalition forces have withdrawn from three forward operating bases in northeastern Syria—Mission Support Site Green Village, Mission Support Site Euphrates (often called the Conoco gas-field base), and a third smaller facility—sometime in May 2025, according to the latest Department of Defense Inspector General quarterly report. These closures represent a mass exodus from the […]

Why Your Grandparents Once Rendered the Nazi Salute to the American Flag

Why Your Grandparents Once Rendered the Nazi Salute to the American Flag

In a moment that feels ripped from dystopian fiction, American schoolkids in 1940 stood with outstretched arms—Nazi-style—saluting the flag under a Pledge written by a Christian Socialist, in a bizarre collision of patriotism, forgotten history, and unintended symbolism.