Will Dabbs

On 18 July 1944, an officer in the Irish Guards named LT John Gorman commanded a section of three M4 Shermans out looking for trouble as part of Operation Goodwood.

Read about a Hebrew-language action drama produced in Israel called Fauda. Fauda means “Chaos,” and it stars Lior Raz, who witnessed chaos.

Bruce Carr’s exploits would make a fantastic movie, but I’m afraid nobody would believe it was real.

He was going to transform this daily parade into a gory resistance spectacle. To do so, he required a seriously crazy pilot. His first choice was Flight Lieutenant Alfred Kitchener Gatward.

We guys do take our sports seriously. The psychosocial impetus behind this curious phenomenon is indeed fascinating.

Bad things happen in war, and atrocities have been part of institutionalized killing ever since men lived in caves.

Estimated reading time: 11 minutes On 6 August 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets dropped the first atomic bomb from the B29 Superfortress Enola Gay on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This weapon, an enriched uranium gun-type design designated “Little Boy,” exploded 1,500 feet above the ground and had a nominal yield of around 15 kilotons. That [...]

There is a fellowship intrinsic to military service that is tough to describe to those who have not lived it. For starters, we were all so terribly young.

Warlords, drug kingpins, or just garden-variety criminals can make life a living hell for good folks who just want to go about their business.