Saddam Hussein

In a move reminiscent of the early stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the U.S. Army has compiled a new deck of cards. This time around, however, the deck doesn’t include the top-men of the Baathist party and Iraqi military and intelligence apparatus, but the more important weapons systems in the Iranian arsenal. According to the […]

Editor’s note: The heightened tensions with Iran offer an opportunity to examine the ups and downs of an undeclared conflict that has been going on for over 40 years. This falls into the light category.  When propaganda efforts go wrong, the effect can be hilarious indeed. Last year, as the Iranian government was celebrating the […]

After days of waiting, Iran has finally responded to the killing of its top covert operations general with a mass ballistic missile attack against U.S. bases in Iraq and Jordan. On Tuesday night, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard’s Corps (IRGC), an elite branch of the Iranian military, unleashed dozens of missiles targeting three U.S. bases in […]

On the evening of December 13, 2003, in the small Iraqi town of ad-Dawr outside of Tikrit, elements of Task Force 121, and the US Army’s 4th Infantry Division captured former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Hussein hid in a spider hole and was found by a Delta Force operator. The operation was named after the […]

On December 13, 2003, at 2030 hours local time, HVT #1, Saddam Hussein, was found and captured in the town of ad-Dawr, Iraq, by a joint service and combined arms force of nearly 600 soldiers, sailors, and airmen from various conventional and special operations elements.  Operation Red Dawn, one of the largest man hunts in […]

Kuwait, 1990 — Four divisions of the Iraqi Republican Guard and Iraqi Army SF units flood into Kuwait. Airports are seized, fighters are screaming overhead, and Kuwait forces are quickly overwhelmed. Kuwait aircraft are shot from the sky, and almost their entire Navy is sunk. Some Kuwaiti forces have more success than others in delaying […]

Many of our readers fought in this war and don’t need a rundown of events, but as the days stretch on, it draws further and further away. Many of today’s youth may be too young to remember — today’s 18-year-olds were only three years old at the beginning of the war. On March 20, 2003, […]

As the White House and the Kim regime play a game of chicken with each other the media is once again ramping up for a full-scale freak out about North Korea.  Remember the last one a few months back?  Yeah, nothing happened, just like every other time.  There are some new and important developments this […]

A former US Army flight surgeon and Tennessee State Sen. is reportedly the frontrunner for President Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Army pick, according to sources cited by The Military Times. Mark Green, a former Ranger-qualified soldier who deployed to Iraq with the legendary 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), is well-known for his interrogation of then-Iraqi President Saddam […]

The featured photo shows US Air Force F-15s and F-16s flying over burning Kuwaiti oil wells that were set ablaze as Saddam Hussein’s invading Iraqi Army retreated in the closing days of Operation Desert Storm. Below are additional images from Operation Desert Storm Watch Actual Footage of US Army Apache Helicopter Strikes During Desert Storm […]

When Yazan Fadhli introduces himself to people and mentions that he’s from Iraq, his homeland conjures questions about the Islamic State, sectarian violence, chemical weapons and car bombs. Yet the area he’s from is considered the cradle of civilization, the birthplace of mathematics, astronomy and medicine, and the site of wave upon wave of great […]

Condoleezza Rice reportedly criticized former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld  in an email to Colin Powell for his handling of the war in Iraq, according to emails seen by Buzzfeed News. “First, we didn’t invade Iraq to bring democracy — but once we overthrew Saddam, we had a view of what should follow,” Rice said in an […]