Category: Military History

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.

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.”

We drove up to Quincy together to support a campaign stop and left as three men instead of four, after a device that should have gone off the night before waited for Ken Foster the next morning.

When the second Black Hawk went down and the city closed in, Gary Gordon did not hesitate, he asked to be put on the ground, knowing exactly what it might cost and choosing it anyway.

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.

Hammerhead Six is a hard, practical lesson in how small Special Forces teams won ground in Afghanistan by mastering culture, accountability, and relationships instead of relying on firepower alone.

After an MH-60S Seahawk sank nearly four miles into the Philippine Sea in January 2020, the U.S. Navy executed a record-setting deep-water recovery in March 2021 to retrieve critical components for the mishap investigation and prevent sensitive equipment from remaining on the ocean floor.

A field watch with real Pacific-theater lineage and A-11 DNA, the Praesidus Pacific Front line of timepieces are built to be worn daily, not displayed, quietly carrying forward a small piece of history.

As African nationalism surged and London hardened its demands, Southern Rhodesia found itself trapped between a promise of gradual reform and the gathering certainty that compromise was slipping beyond reach.

From a 1958 request for one Army bomb tech on standby to today’s global JEOD VIPPSA mission, EOD’s quiet partnership with the Secret Service has stood watch over presidents and candidates for decades.

Franklin D. Miller’s Medal of Honor was forged in the chaos of a SOG reconnaissance mission gone wrong, where discipline, loyalty, and relentless action under fire turned a near-annihilation into a survival story that still sets the standard for how a man carries himself when everything collapses.

Read the exclusive account of what kinds of gear SOG recon teams carried during their top-secret missions into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam.