IDF: The Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Northern Shield to expose and neutralize cross-border attack tunnels that Hezbollah dug from Lebanon into Israel. Just hours into the operation our troops exposed and neutralized a 600 foot Hezbollah attack tunnel, which began under a civilian building in southern Lebanon, was dug through solid rock, and extended …
By David Vergun, Army.mil “All those bad memories surged forward again,” said James C. McNaughton, who served as command historian for U.S. Army Pacific from 2001 to 2005. THREE MISSIONS At the time of the attack, 43,000 Soldiers were on active duty in Hawaii, where they were tasked with three primary missions, the first …
TALKING TO GIFTED CHILDREN By Eeben Barlow author Executive Outcomes I was recently asked to speak to some very smart schoolkids—gifted children—and to give them some of my ‘lessons in life’. Most of these lessons are well known but I tried use my life’s journey to illustrate the lessons I have learned (often the very hard …
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It was 6 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, when six Japanese carriers launched a first wave of 181 planes composed of torpedo bombers, dive bombers, horizontal bombers and fighters toward Hawaii. The Japanese aircrews achieved complete surprise when they hit American ships and military installations on Oahu shortly before 8 a.m. More than 90 ships …
On February 21, 1942, just 76 days after the tragic attack on Pearl Harbor, Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn (pictured) was found guilty of spying and sentenced to be shot “by musketry” in Honolulu. What was a German national doing in Hawaii in the days leading up to the attack? What exactly did Kuehn do to …
Mad Mike In 1964-1965, Colonel Mike Hoare led 300 ‘Wild Geese’ across the Congo to crush a communist rebellion, rescue 2 000 nuns and priests, beat Che Guevara … and become a legend. Once described as the “best bloody soldier in the British Army”, Hoare settled in South Africa after World War II living dangerously …
SOF with author CHRIS HOARE, son of ‘Mad Mike’ Hoare Author bio Chris Hoare is a journalist in South Africa and the eldest son of ‘Mad Mike’. With unique access to Mike and his story, it took him about 12 years, working between times, to research and write this authoritative and referenced biography. How is …
Back on my own time and my own dime by Mitch Utterback, Retired U.S. Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel A Veteran in Transition On Dec. 30, 2016, I arrived in Mosul, Iraq and reunited with soldiers of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces I had not seen in nearly nine years. I returned as a retired soldier …
Published on Dec 13, 2013 A quick mini-documentary on the 2 P-40B Warhawks that got airborne during the attack on Pearl Harbor and scored multiple kills. Flown by Ken Taylor and George Welch they were able to attack Japanese aircraft of the second attack wave. courtesy Maxsmodels
SOF Friend, Former Marine and Bravo Company founder Paul Buffoni and his team specialize in M4 Super Store. AR-15, M16, M4 Specialists. Due to BCM’s smashing success, they needed a much larger factory. Larry sits down with Paul Buffoni, the owner and CEO of Bravo Company USA, to talk about BCM’s brand new facility and what …
