Category: War Stories

Paul Kern, a WWI soldier, never slept again after a head injury, staying awake for 40 years while living a full, active life.

Guido’s sterling sense of humor and ease of nature made even the most mundane tasks seem like grand comedic escapades, forever immortalizing him in the playful cartoons I sketched throughout our years in Delta.

CSS Virginia crushed wooden Union ships at Hampton Roads, proving ironclads would dominate naval warfare and reshape global sea power forever

A struggling Special Forces officer finds healing through an unlikely friendship with a decorated Green Beret veteran haunted by a wartime memory.

During World War I, the Canadian Corps earned a reputation for aggressive trench raiding and tactical deception, using routine and psychological disruption as deliberate tools to unsettle German forces along the Western Front.

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.

A veteran writes about the soldiers he couldn’t save as a way to carry the weight of their loss and keep himself standing.

BROTHERS rips Yaël Sion out of the warm, so‑called safety of the team, strips her down past rank, résumé, and operator ego, and dares you to suck it up and ride shotgun while she bleeds, breaks, and still brings unholy hell to the world that cut her loose.

Perhaps SEAL Team SIX forgot their clown car as they could barely lead a VIP to the local airport without disastrous results.

In a bold and controversial move, Marcinko transformed his operators into skilled pilots, acquiring civilian planes for rapid response to hijacking crises, embodying the essence of a self-sufficient, covert unit.

In this riveting fourth interview of the series, “Demo” Dick Marcinko recounts the birth of SEAL Team Six during the aftermath of Operation Eagle Claw, detailing his role in crafting this elite unit from the ground up under the directive of Admiral Thomas B. Hayward, against the backdrop of a critical period in U.S. military history.