By Ethan Brown The following is an excerpt from: “Visual Friendlies, Tally Target Volume I: Invasions (Chapter 20: The Birth of Digital Close Air Continue Reading
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Black People Can’t Swim: The True Story of a Special Forces Combat Diver
By Damone Brown The following is an excerpt from Black People Can't Swim: Finding the Faith to Defy Your Odds by Damone Brown. A man is not Continue Reading
Excerpt from Costa’s War
By Mark Rubinstein Editor's Note: This excerpt from Mark Rubinstein’s Costa’s War follows a young soldier’s arrival in Vietnam in 1968 and the Continue Reading
The Navigator and the Aviator
My friend lent me a book to read. It's called The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, by Wade Davis (House of Anansi Press). Continue Reading
Explosions and Rude Awakenings in Ramadi
(Editor's Note: The following is the first chapter from Jared's book It'll Buff Out.) Chapter 2: Rush OP Hawk Ramadi, Iraq September 29, Continue Reading
The Mighty Moo: The USS Cowpens in WWII
Editor's Note: The Mighty Moo: The USS Cowpens and Her Epic World War II Journey from Jinx Ship to the Navy’s First Carrier into Tokyo Bay by Continue Reading
There Is Merit in the Admiral’s Reading List
By Bruce D. Kowal It is a marvelous tradition of the chiefs of our armed forces to publish a professional reading program, a reading list for Continue Reading
When Ike Overtook Churchill
By Jonathan W. Jordan Editor’s Note: This excerpt and image from Ike and Winston by Jonathan W. Jordan are published with permission from Continue Reading
When Heroes Crack
I've been sick the last a few days. It's been just a cold, cough, and sinus infection, but it's been enough to keep me down. My wife, Karin, has Continue Reading
Opening Pandora’s Box
Editor’s Note: What follows is a preview of The Adler Compound—a grounded military thriller by veteran author Andy Barker that leans hard into Continue Reading
Sell Me Softly
I hate self-promotion. I abhor the soul-crushing humility that asking for help requires of me. Yet, for the last several weeks, I found myself asking Continue Reading
When the Win Finally Counts
For years, it felt like I was running a hundred miles per hour in the wrong direction. I’d work twice as hard going the wrong way to somehow still end Continue Reading