Category: War Stories

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

Do you know which conflict is considered the shortest war in history? Read this story about how the British held island of Zanzibar off the coast of German-controlled Tanzania became the flashpoint for a war that lasted just thirty-seven minutes.

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.

Panic is a by far a deadlier and more contagious “virus” that COVID can ever be!

Since it was very dark it was therefore difficult to judge the distance to the tops of trees and the ground.

How can the best-of-the-best in the U.S. Army be determined? And what does Brian have to do with it?

We examined the Taliban campsite again and did our best to work out exactly what they’d been doing there. It clearly was not a makeshift or impromptu site.

Ernest Hemingway is a household name, but many don’t know that he used his custom boat, Pilar, to hunt enemy U-Boats in his spare time.

On Veterans Day we remember those who when their country asked, “Who will give their very lives to defend us?” raised their hands and said, “Here am I, send me.”

Fires, corruption, and doing the right thing.

Need some extra motivation in your day? Then listen to “Thunderstruck” the best war song ever, and go ahead and smash your day.

Israel’s Shayetet 13 is considered one of the best trained Special Operations units in the world, its activities are shrouded in secrecy.