Why Mossad’s Retrieval of Eli Cohen’s Watch Matters

The daring recovery of Eli Cohen’s wristwatch by Mossad serves as a poignant reminder of the agency’s unwavering dedication to honoring its fallen heroes, symbolizing not just a piece of history, but a deep, enduring connection to their legacy.

Watch: 1965 Naval Aviation Crash Landings “Safety is Your Business”

Classic US Navy training video. Naval aviation safety film includes Douglas A-4 Skyhawk footage, and clips of several bad landing crashes, including several carrier landing crashes (a Grumman F9F Panther, a Douglas A-1 Skyraider, formerly AD Skyraider, and two Vought F7U Cutlass crashes, one on land and one on the USS Hancock in 1955). Featured […]

Pakistan and India: The Kashmir dispute

The conflict between Pakistan and India is often overlooked — like many conflicts that have been going on for decades, it’s easy to slip out of the limelight when it sounds like the same news is getting reported over and over. However, the Pakistan-India tensions have had some serious fallout: they have had massive tank […]

A Misaligned, Misguided, and Misunderstood History: The Vietnam War

It is July 1965, and President Lyndon B. Johnson has made the decision to send troops into Vietnam. U.S. strategy in Vietnam demands a necessary escalation of force. American policy, stemming from Cold War doctrine, and events in Vietnam since at least 1954 have gone unchecked for too long. Yet, U.S. policy is destined to […]