In the Shadow of the Hindu Kush: The CIA’s Early Post 9/11 Afghan Missions
Members of Team Alpha at Karshi Khanabad (K-2) Air Base, October 16, 2001. Mike Spann, the first American casualty of the war, stands far right. The team is equipped with…
The Third Road
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and…
The 13th Department Top Secret KGB Assassination Unit
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MEDITATION: Quest for Fire, The Need to Do Valuable Things
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RTS Tactical Level IIIA/HG2 Body Armor Compression Shirt
RTS Tactical Level IIIA/HG2 Body Armor Compression Shirt Guest post by Frank, current LEO and SWAT Recently, I was sent the RTS Tactical Level IIIA/HG2 body armor compression shirt (hereafter…
MEDITATION: Chariots of Fire, Gallipoli Running, Memories, War, Youth, and Glory
Do you remember getting that lump in your throat because you were nervous before executing something? That kind of feeling came from getting on stage in front of people to…
The Avro Vulcan: A Cold War Icon
Avro Vulcan – Last Flight over Farnborough 11th October 2015, Photo credit: Alastair Barbour / CC By 2.5. The Avro Vulcan, officially the Avro Type 698 Vulcan, was a strategic…
Operation CROSSBOW: Countering the V-Weapons
The La Coupole V-2 launch site at Wizernes in France was destroyed by bombing before it could be brought into use. Photo by Clare Wilkinson / CC By 2.0. Operation…
Watcher Secrets: MI5’s WWII Advice to New Recruits Revealed
Major Samson, an officer at Latchmere House, MI5 Intelligence Centre in World War II. Photo courtesy Imperial War Museums. The newly declassified British Security Service (MI5) World War Two “watcher”…
Operation JUNGLE: MI6’s Covert Baltic Mission
Three German Silbermöwe-class motorboats, used during the last phase of Operation Jungle. Operation JUNGLE was a daring and clandestine program conducted by the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly referred…