Speed kills distance. Germany’s entire strategic doctrine, the Blitzkrieg that had swallowed Poland in 27 days, France in 46, Yugoslavia in 11, was designed to outrun the problem of supply. Strike fast, live off captured fuel and food, collapse the enemy before your own logistics broke down. It was a brilliant solution to a genuine…
Three words that ended with Challenger 2 main battle tanks crashing through the perimeter wall of the Alge police station with warrior infantry fighting vehicles burning in the streets with crowds of more than a thousand Iraqis throwing petrol bombs at British soldiers. and with 20 operators of a squadron 22nd special air service regiment…
The infantrymen of the first and second companies, supported by the mortar and machine gun crews of the fourth company and the storm gashutz assault gun battalion, went on the offensive. At some distance from the infantry, tanks from the fourth company took up positions. Their armor was painted with white letters G, indicating that…
Collins would later set down his account of these years in Killing Rage, published by Granter Books in 1997. The book described in pros that Resist sentimentality throughout the mechanics of IR intelligence work in South Armar and across the border areas. the targeting, the surveillance, the authorizations, the faces of the men he helped…
The German staff predicted Third Army would grind to a halt at the San River. The pause would give Vermach forces time to regroup, establish defensive positions, perhaps hold through winter. The mathematics were irrefutable. What Yodel didn’t know was that American logistics officers were already planning something unprecedented, a continuous convoy system that would…
Among them was an Obersturmführer with a face as cold as the landscape. During a tense, makeshift interrogation in a frozen tent, this officer didn’t look like a man who had lost. He looked like a man who had enjoyed the war too much. When questioned about the Malmedy massacre, where over 80 American POWs…
By early March 2002, the United States had been hunting these groups for months without managing to deliver a decisive blow. The geography of the region played directly into their enemies’ hands. The Hindu Kush mountains created valleys so deep and terrain so broken that conventional military advantages became almost meaningless. The Americans knew that…
The numbers did not make sense. He had come to learn the secret. And what he wrote in his report after these 14 days would shake the agency for years. No CIA officer had ever trained with the Australian SAS in the field before. Hayes was the first. Langley had pulled strings to make it…
What they have not calculated, what no one on the Eastern Bank has properly calculated is what is happening on the other side of that black water in the hours before dawn. Because on the western bank in the darkness and the river mist, American combat engineers are already working. They are not building a…
What those soldiers experienced in Britain between 1942 and 1945 was not perfect and it was not simple, but it was real and it changed them in ways that the United States government spent years trying to suppress because men who have experienced being treated as full human beings do not quietly go back to…
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