and all of his men would go down to the base and grab the ammunition and bring it up to the top of the mountain. And Bob, being as competitive as he was, he would grab the biggest one. It was like 96 lb. >> At 6:30 in the morning, more than 500 mortar rounds…
Six men, no backup, 60 m behind enemy lines. They called them LRPS, pronounced lurps, and they ran the deadliest missions of the Vietnam War. These small teams achieved kill ratios as high as 400 to1. They operated in what one veteran called a silent netherworld of dark green shadows where error could mean death….
Somewhere in the operational archives of the Vietkong Regional Command for Fuktui Province, there exists a series of field reports from late 1967 that read less like military intelligence and more like campfire horror stories. Unit commanders across the province were filing nearly identical complaints, and the tone was bordering on panic. Their patrols were…
In 2009, a classified afteraction report landed on the desk of the commander of joint special operations command at Bram Airfield. The document contained a single statistical comparison that made senior Pentagon officials physically uncomfortable. Over the preceding 12 months, a unit of roughly 150 Australian operators had neutralized more high-V valueue Taliban commanders in…
In January 1991, General Norman Schwarzoff sat inside his command bunker in Rayad, Saudi Arabia, and made one thing absolutely clear. He did not want special forces anywhere near his war. Schwartzkov had 750,000 troops at his disposal, the largest coalition force assembled since World War II. He had stealth bombers, precisiong guided missiles, and…
In late 2001, a small group of Australian soldiers landed at a dusty forward operating base in southern Afghanistan, 90 kilometers southwest of Kandahar. The base was called Camp Rhino, and it was the first tow hold the Americans had won in the entire country. These were not regular soldiers. They were operators from the…
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