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…
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…
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…
The Only Cure for the Absurd
“For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.” — Acts 17:28 The only way to overcome the absurd emptiness of this world is to become truly Christian,…
Colonel Dick Ellis: Architect of Modern Intelligence Agencies
Charles Howard “Dick” Ellis Colonel Charles Howard “Dick” Ellis CMG CBE TD was an extraordinary figure in 20th-century intelligence, with a life story that traverses continents, governments, and crucial moments…
Numbers Stations: Broadcasting Secrets
Soviet SWL A. Kozlow (URS3-108-B) with his short-wave receiver KUB-4. Broadcast receiver SI-235 on foreground. Borisoglebsk city, 1941. Numbers stations are one of the most intriguing phenomena of shortwave radio.…