2024 General Service Unit Headquarters, Ruaka, Nairobi, Kenya. Eight armored vehicles rolled through the compound gates in a single file. They are not elegant. They are not fast. They do...
October 7, 1973. Just past sunset, the southern escarpment of the Golan Heights, 1 km west of Kibbutz El Al, a Syrian mechanized brigade is rolling downhill in the dust....
December 7th, 2024. A dust road in the Kursk Oblast on the wrong side of the Russian border for a Ukrainian paratrooper to be alive on. A driver with the...
A tank gun is just a tube. What actually decides whether that tank wins or loses is what you load into it. And throughout history, armies got that choice catastrophically...
May 1940, a dusty road outside Amiens, northern France. Private Thomas Matthews is lying behind a low stone wall with a rifle across his arms that no one in his...
There is a photograph in the Imperial War Museum archive that I keep returning to. It was taken in June 1982 somewhere between San Carlos and Port Stanley on the...
It is the morning of the 11th of June, 1940 and the harbor at Valletta is still. The limestone walls of the Grand Harbor glow amber in the early light....
Alexandria, Egypt. The summer of 1940, an officer of the Royal Signals walked into a Chevrolet dealership on the waterfront and asked to buy trucks. Not military trucks, civilian trucks....
Dunkeswell Aerodrome, Devon, 2001. A company that built forestry tractors just won a contract to supply vehicles to the SAS. Not BAE Systems, not General Dynamics, a firm of fewer...
Tesla Under Pressure Following High-Profile Crash and Troubling Allegations From Employees The Silent Killer: How Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” Hype is Costing Lives The Florida heat was oppressive, but it was...