Military History

On that brutal Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor, Captain Mervyn Bennion stayed on the burning bridge of West Virginia with his guts torn open, still fighting for his ship and his men long after any reasonable man would have let go.

Drawing on the overlooked grit of Revolutionary War hero John Stark, General Don Bolduc has forged a leadership style grounded in blunt honesty, shared risk, and an uncompromising commitment to his troops.

November has repeatedly served as war’s decision month, delivering hinge battles from El Alamein and Guadalcanal to the Somme and Fallujah that either broke enemy momentum or forced conflicts into their endgame.

Grimes Davis rode through the dark like a man convinced Providence had tapped him on the shoulder, turning a doomed garrison’s last breath into one of the boldest jailbreaks the war ever saw.

The Legion was never built to last; it was a stopgap of anger, idealism, and broken men thrown together under fire, and its dissolution only makes official what the front line knew years ago.

From a cotton field in Arkansas to a tank deck in Vietnam, Nicky Bacon showed how a squad leader with a forged signature and a spine of steel can hold a fight, save his people, and keep serving long after the shooting stops.

The extraordinary exploits of the OSS Maritime Unit and the relentless bravery of men like Walter Mess laid the foundation for the modern Navy SEALs, blending raw ingenuity with a fearless spirit that still defines America’s most elite warriors today.

Ukraine and Russia are locked in a grinding stalemate where neither can win outright, yet both refuse to accept the cost of defeat as the political ground beneath them steadily erodes.

Russia’s elite “Green Beret” recon paratroopers have the training, gear, and reputation to shape the battlefield, yet in Ukraine they’ve been squandered by a leadership stuck in blunt, Soviet-style frontal assaults that bleed the VDV for no real gain.

A young lieutenant on Cemetery Ridge refused to fall back even as his own body failed him, choosing to stand by his guns and hurl steel into the teeth of Pickett’s Charge until the last breath left his lungs.

What happened in that stairwell is less important than what came after: a cottage industry of self appointed referees who profit from shredding another man’s service while preaching a code they no longer live by.

Rob O’Neill’s $25 million defamation suit is more than self-defense; it is a hard line in the sand against the vet-on-vet outrage economy that treats brotherhood like clickbait.