Category: Military History

Vasily Zaytsev has gone down in history as a master sniper and his tactics still have a lot to teach to modern-day snipers.

The British Royal Marines Commandos have a long and illustrious history. These are some facts you may not know about them.

The lionization of Yamamoto by Japanese propaganda had put a huge target on his back. And now he was within range.

Her courage was never questioned, and “her brain worked with the speed and smoothness of skates on ice.”

Explore 15 badass military mottos around the world and discover the stories behind these mottos that inspire soldiers.

Things went awry right from the start. But the hardy SAS commandos soldiered on despite the accumulating obstacles.

The legacy of Wild Bill Donovan and his Glorious Amateurs is still alive and strong in the U.S. Special Operations Command and the CIA.

So many things could go wrong with Operation Thunderbolt. Yet, it was a success — but the mind behind it had to pay the ultimate prize.

Today, we would call Joshua Chamberlain, the rhetoric professor with a stutter, a nerd. How wrong would we be!

Never again would the Confederates venture into Northern territory. From that point, until the war’s end, they’d be fighting a defensive war.

On July 4, 1976, while the United States was celebrating its bicentennial, a small group of Israeli Special Operations troops was carrying out one of the most brilliant hostage rescue operations in history.  Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu — the brother of the incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — was the Commander of the […]

It was at that very moment that Nasser decided to seize the Suez Canal and expel the last remnants of Western imperialism from his country.