Military History

Live Your Myth In Occupied Cyprus

The horrific news shook the Turkish command post on the Saint Hilarion hill, just north of Kotzakaya. The 1st Commando Battalion ordered to counter-attack with two companies in front and a third in support.

Members-Only Early Look At “Among Heroes” – Coming May 2015

I originally published this a while back for our Team Room members and also wanted to share this with our regular members. Team Room members get a lot of access to our writers and we often share work in progress with the TR. It’s a great community to belong to, and don’t forget our annual […]

The Warsaw Uprising 1944

“Each citizen has to be killed, we shall take no prisoners. Warsaw shall be erased from the face of the Earth and served as a deterrent for the whole Europe.” These are the words of Adolf Hitler after he had been told about the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, which began on August 1, 1944. […]

Navy SEAL Delivery Vehicles (SDV): Warriors Below The Surface – Part Three

September 1985, SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV) Team Two, Little Creek, Virginia: “Amphibious assault was a tactic employed during wartime hundreds maybe even thousands of years before the existence of ballistic submarines, SEAL Delivery Vehicles (SDV) and the Dry Deck Shelter (DDS). Homer described several waterborne assaults in his epic poems The Odyssey and The Iliad. […]

North Korea & KOJE-do: Lessons Forgotten

On May 7, 1952, the North Korean Senior POW on the Island of Koje-do requested the presence of the camp commander at the gate to his compound, #76. Brigadier General Francis Dodd obligingly showed up. Prior to this date, a number of American guards had been kidnapped and ultimately released. On April 2nd, MP officer […]

Last Stand At Lang Vei (Part One)

The PT-76 was an amphibious tank design developed by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. Armed with a relatively small (for the era) 76 mm gun and intended to spearhead river crossings, it took up station with several units occupying the Warsaw Pact countries for a potential thrust into western Europe. Yet, against NATO […]

Operation Medusa 2006, Canadian-led Offensive in Afghanistan

Currently, Canada is involved in 14 operations worldwide. Although most of them are with the U.N., we have served for more than 10 years in Kandahar, Afghanistan where fighting occurred on a daily basis. We participated in almost all of the U.N. peacekeeping missions since the 1970s, making us one the largest contributors to the […]

Operation Claymore: The Day The Empire Struck Back… Hard

After Great Britain was driven from continental Europe in disgrace, it realized that the offensive capabilities it wanted to employ against Germany must be tried elsewhere. Thus, after winning the battle of Britain, it shifted its main weight of forces to fight in the deserts of North Africa. The ensuing struggle eventually caused some cheer […]

Know Your Roots, USAF Rescue

The Air Force knows it’s tough to be the littlest brother in the service. The Marines, Army and Navy all get to trace their roots back 238 years and some-odd days, and regularly lord it over their youngest sibling, 66 year and one month-old Air Force. To put things in perspective, if the Marines, Army, […]

Decima MAS: The Most Successful Frogmen In History

The story of Italy’s Decima MAS (Decima Mezzi d’Assalto, or 10th Assault Vehicle Flotilla), is a peculiar tale regarding Axis Special Forces in World War II. On one hand they were the best combat frogmen produced by any nation during the conflict. On the other, the courage and innovation they brought to the history of […]