Will Dabbs

Fighter pilots are invariably obnoxious extroverts. I’ve known a few. The profession selects for those particular character traits. They honestly earn that. When your job is to climb all by your lonesome into a machine filled with kerosene that will propel you faster than some bullets so you can go

The 1911 Siege of Sidney Street: a deadly London gunfight where Churchill deployed troops against anarchists.

Discover how Israel weaponized pagers and radios to take out hundreds of Hezbollah fighters in one of Mossad’s boldest covert ops.

The 2003 Bixby standoff in Abbeville, SC, left two officers dead and exposed the dangers of sovereign citizen extremism.

All proper soldiers want to come home with a good story. You’d like to be able to sit down someday with your grandkids and tell them how you rescued the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders from the clutches of some evil despot. Tragically, the real world seldom works out quite like that.

Discover Noah Adair, WWII naval heroics from Atlantic U-boats to Pacific kamikaze battles, and the family’s legacy of service.

The tragic 1866 murder of Elizabeth Ragland and frontier justice in Mississippi reveal a dark chapter of Civil War–era history.

Uday and Qusay were both crazy, but they were two different flavors of crazy. Qusay was the more cerebral of the two. He married Maher Abd al-Rashid and fathered four children. Qusay killed methodically, institutionally, and, most typically, in the shadows.

Young people perish in war. That’s what makes the practice so abjectly horrible. Kids are cut down in the prime of their lives. In the case of 1LT Mains, he was 28 years old the day he rode his B-24 Liberator in over Ludwigslust, Germany.