Category: Military History

Trench knives proved to be valuable weapons in tight, narrow, and confined, close combats in, well, trenches.

As funny as his nom de guerre sounds, General Butt Naked’s atrocious deeds during Liberia’s 14-year civil war were no laughing matter.

Israel has been bombing targets in Syria for decades that it perceives as a threat to its own security. Most famously, their 2007 raid that destroyed a North Korean-built nuclear reactor in Deir al-Zour province. A story in the Washington Post now claims that Israeli aircraft have made repeated strikes on chemical weapons productions and storage facilities within Syria.

Sometimes, you just have to do what it takes to survive, even when it means you have to wear a urine mask.

The Takuba Special Operations Task Force, comprised of French Special Operations troops has killed a key leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) for his part in the murders of six civilian aid workers and two guides in Niger in 2020.

Have you ever wondered what Oscar-Tango-Mike means? Knowing the NATO Phonetic Alphabet can answer that for you.

One fine sunny day, the USS Eldridge was in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard doing some tests when it suddenly vanished into the thin air. Then somehow a single man ended up perpetrating one of the greatest hoaxes in history.

The air war over Europe was a bloody affair for Allied pilots flying bombing missions over occupied Europe and Germany. Large bomber formations were savaged by flak and/or German fighters. Losses were so heavy that any crew that survived 25 missions were sent home. Few did. Things would soon change, however, as the P-51 Mustang […]

Using a football as an anti-tank grenade? The US Army once attempted to use Nerf balls as anti-tank grenades. Here’s how it turned out.

Israeli F-16s bomb Syria’s largest airport leaving three perfectly spaced craters 600 meters apart on the runway. This is the latest in a series of attacks by Israel on the Iranian presence within Syria.

With just forty-four men dressed as American soldiers, SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny’s commando unit wreaked havoc and confusion behind U.S. lines in the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge that began on December 16th, 1944

Historians tend to lay most of the blame for Nazi atrocities at the feat of the Waffen SS, but the “Wehrmacht” or regular army was more than capable of rapacity and mass slaughter as well. Especially the anti-partisan units the Germans sent to occupy Greece in WWII.