Yugoslavia

Despite recognizing Hezbollah’s strength and resolve, I’ve never chosen to call it ‘fear’—a term ill-suited for instilling confidence during my tenure with Delta, where we viewed them as a formidable terrorist threat to the West.

In the heart of Sarajevo’s war-ravaged streets, I shared a dubious cup of tea with Ivan, who, amid the rubble and ruin, clung fiercely to his pride and humanity.

Bob was so much larger than life, that eventually life could no longer contain him, and he was instructed by the Almighty to take one last boat excursion, this time to Valhalla.

Instrumental in the quick recovery of both pilots were the updated procedures put in place after the Gulf War in 1990-1991.

I’m an idiot. How many times have I told myself not to chat up the owners of the corner kiosks for language training? Pick a kiosk that you don’t have to pass to get to and from your safe house; every time you pass, they will see you and wave you down to chat. If […]

Today is the birthday of Sterling Hayden, he would have been 103 years old today. Most people when they hear his name think of the crooked cop, Captain McCloskey in “The Godfather”. Working with a rival faction of Mafiosi, Hayden met his end when Michael Corleone shot him in a restaurant. He was also outstanding […]

Moe Berg was one of the more fascinating characters in the world of both professional baseball and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. After playing professional baseball for 15 years and coaching for two more, he joined the OSS and was an operative in Europe during the war. But prior to […]

The last few years have seen a significant increase in the use of hand grenades for violent crimes in Sweden. The police have responded to several gang-related incidents involving grenades, including two grenades thrown into a nightclub in May, 2015 and a grenade exploding inside a restaurant in April, 2016. In January of this year, […]

Operation Halyard was the greatest rescue mission of American airmen in our history. And it was conducted by a three-man OSS (Office of Strategic Services) team dropped into Serbia that was occupied by the Germans. The OSS operatives linked up with Serbian “Chetniks” led by General Draža Mihailović in August of 1944. This three-man Halyard […]

In a shocking turn of events that played out on live television, Slobodan Praljak, drank poison in a courtroom and died later on Wednesday, after the convicted war criminal interrupted a courtroom hearing to declare his innocence according to Croatian state media. Praliak, loudly proclaimed his innocence in front of the International Criminal Tribunal and […]

The pre-war German Army rejected Captain Theodore von Hippel’s idea of using small units of highly trained men to penetrate enemy defenses before main actions began. They felt it was beneath the dignity of true soldiers to engage in such renegade conduct and so sent the young Captain packing. Down but not out, he ended […]

His special forces sponsor, Radovan Stojicic, was gunned down in a restaurant in Belgrade in 1997, while his alleged political puppet-master, Slobodan Milosevic, died in custody in The Hague in 2006.