Category: History

Kissinger’s last viable chance at a controlled transition was killed not on the battlefield but in the moral theater of international politics, clearing the path for a far more violent and uncompromising outcome.

A retired Air Force intelligence officer challenges the official account of United Flight 93, arguing that the evidence, eyewitness testimony, and timeline discrepancies point to a far more troubling possibility, that the aircraft may have been brought down by U.S. fighters in the final minutes of 9/11.

Paul Kern, a WWI soldier, never slept again after a head injury, staying awake for 40 years while living a full, active life.

Operation Epic Fury has turned into a regional confrontation with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps at its core. As the conflict spreads across multiple fronts, President Donald Trump faces the difficult task of weakening an institution designed to survive long wars.

The rise of Mojtaba Khamenei reflects a shift inside the Islamic Republic from clerical authority to security rule. His leadership may strengthen Iran’s hardline institutions while narrowing any remaining path toward diplomacy.

On a frozen Afghan peak in thigh-deep snow, Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman charged two bunkers under machine-gun fire, kept fighting after mortal wounds, and left behind a drone-recorded last stand that still sets the standard for Special Tactics.

A reader’s recommendation led me to revisit Charles Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions & The Madness of Crowds, and the book offers a powerful framework for understanding how financial pressure and crowd psychology are driving the current turmoil surrounding Iran’s collapsing rial.

During World War I, the Canadian Corps earned a reputation for aggressive trench raiding and tactical deception, using routine and psychological disruption as deliberate tools to unsettle German forces along the Western Front.

Designed for discreet KGB carry rather than battlefield firepower, the ultra-thin Soviet PSM pistol traded stopping power for concealment, mystique, and a lasting reputation as both spy gun and status symbol.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was not improvisation but doctrine. Four years later, the war reveals how restoration politics and instability became instruments of state survival.

Four years into the Ukraine war, the conflict remains defined by attrition and energy pressure as Russian forces sustain offensives and Kyiv relies on Western support; meanwhile, tensions rise in the West Bank after a mosque arson during Ramadan, and scrutiny grows in Washington as a former ICE official calls the agency’s training program “broken.”

U.S. Marines of India Company, building on earlier 19th Special Forces groundwork, held the knife-edge terrain of Afghanistan’s Pech Valley at FOB Blessing through relentless patrols and sustained combat, proving that small units could pressure Taliban heartland even in the war’s most unforgiving ground.