History

In Arthur Jackson, we find an interesting dichotomy. An accomplished warrior rightfully venerated for exhibiting a level of personal valor unimaginable to most of us normal folk, he later found himself in an unexpected dark place.

When things went a little nuts one November day back in 2004 in Fallujah, SSG David Bellavia briefly unlimbered his inner monster.

Some people seam more inclined to scrap than others. One of those curious men who seemed born to fight was Joseph Drexel Biddle.

While CPT Salomon was working to stabilize a patient, he looked up and saw a Japanese soldier slip into his tent and bayonet a wounded American.

When “Jumpin’ Joe” Beyrle first walked into that Army recruiting office and volunteered there is no way he could have imagined the places that decision might take him.

Alejo Garza Tamez’s last stand has been described in the Mexican media as having been fought with “dignity, honour, and courage.” Don Alejo showed the world that one determined man with a gun still can make a difference.

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.

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 [...]

Lord of War was a simply magnificent movie. Second only to Raising Arizona, it was my favorite Nicolas Cage film ever. Cage’s character, a Ukrainian arms dealer named Yuri Orlov, was loosely based on Viktor Bout.