How to Choose a Dress Gun Belt
Galco Holsters SB1 Dress Holster Belt 1 ¼” in Havana A belt provides the foundation of a concealed carry system. A suitable belt can enhance your carry system, while a…
London’s Spy Tunnels: The Kingsway Exchange Tunnels
Kingsway Exchange Tunnel in 2014. Photo: John Pannell from Watford, UK. CC BY 2.0. The Kingsway Exchange Tunnels are a hidden network of underground passages that stretch for about a…
The KGB: How It Influenced Russia and the World
The Lubyanka building (former KGB headquarters) in Moscow. Photo: A.Savin. CC BY-SA 3.0. The KGB was the main security and intelligence agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until its…
The Culper Spy Ring: Secret Network of Revolutionary War Spies
Major Benjamin Tallmadge, founder of the Culper Spy Ring There is nothing more necessary than good intelligence to frustrate a designing enemy, & nothing that requires greater pains to obtain.”…
Rogers’ Rangers: Leading the Way
Cropped painting of Rogers Rangers, “To Range the Woods”, New York, 1760. US Army Center for Military History Army Artist Team XXII. Rogers’ Rangers was a famous unit of colonial…
The Origins of Coffee
Silencio Calm Chaos Medium Roast Coffee. National Coffee Day is observed on September 29th in many countries, including the United States, Canada, and Australia. For many of us though, every…
Aaron Bank: Father of the Green Berets
Aaron Bank standing alongside German defectors recruited for Operation Iron Cross in WW2. Bank is at left in the first rank Photo: US Army. De Oppresso Liber” — Motto of…
OSS Dirty Tricks Department: America’s WW2 Q Branch
OSS Gallery at the CIA Museum. Photo: Central Intelligence Agency. Difficulties existed only to be surmounted, and there was no setback that a little thought and determination could not overcome.”…
The Legacy of Antonin Scalia and the Intelligence Community
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia (2013). Photo: US Supreme Court Collection. Antonin Scalia, the late Supreme Court justice who died in 2016, was known for his originalist interpretation of the Constitution…
Eugene Fodor: Travel Writer and Spy
Monument “Thank you America” to remember freedom from Nazis by US Army in May 1945. This monument takes place at important Pilsner crossing “U Práce”. Photo: Ondrej.konicek. CC BY-SA 3.0.…