Developed in close cooperation with experienced combat veterans and current Tier 1 Polish Special Forces, Direct Action recently released the first product in their long-awaited combat uniform line the VANGUARD Combat Trousers. Direct Action’s Vanguard® combat uniform is at the forefront of military garment design and specifically developed to interface...
A lot of people have seen a headline like this recently and leapt to the conclusion that the US Army has already selected its Next Generation Squad Infantry Weapons, and awarded the contract for them to New Hampshire based SIG SAUER. However, as is so often the case in these...
Robert Mugabe is dead at last! Let's hope that the people of Zimbabwe can expunge his putrid legacy and restore their country to peace, justice, and prosperity.
At 4:30 a.m. local time on the 5th of September 1972 eight tracksuit-clad members of the 'Black September' Palestinian terrorist group - carrying duffel bags loaded with AKM assault rifles, Tokarev pistols, and grenades - scaled a two-meter chain-link fence leading into the Munich Olympic Village and took 11 members...
The Imperial Japanese Army developed an airborne paratroop force in the late 1930s, but the program did not receive much attention by the Imperial General Headquarters until review of the success of similar German paratroop units during the Blitzkrieg of 1940 and the capture of Crete in 1941. Japanese Army...
Thanks to our friends at SPARTANAT.com we can bring you this special report. Article originally published in German language on SPARTANAT.com For many people, learning to jump out of a completely functional aircraft is either a dream to pursue by joining the military - or just remaining an impossible dream....
August 16, 1940, marks the date of the first official U.S. Army parachute jump at Ft. Benning, Georgia. Although the US lagged behind other nations in the development and deployment of Airborne Forces, US airborne units went on to fight valiantly on every front in WWII, and were critical to...
Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of southern France, was originally supposed to be launched simultaneous to the invasion of Normandy - thus catching the Nazi forces in France and Western Europe between the horns of a two-pronged assault. However, due to there not being enough ships, aircraft, crews, and materiel to...
Today, 75 years ago: August 15, 1944. U.S. paratroopers from the 517th PIR patrol a road after landing in Southern France during Operation Dragoon. Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil) was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France on 15 August 1944. The operation was initially planned to be...
This week marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of Provence, on August 15, 1944 - just two months after the famous Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6. The invasion involved 400,000 troops from the US, France (including from former colonies), Britain, and Canada. The assault was...