The Alamo Scouts emerged from one of the most demanding and complex theaters of World War II, the vast and unforgiving Southwest Pacific. By late 1943, Allied forces under General Douglas MacArthur were pushing steadily northward along the New Guinea coast, preparing for the eventual return to th...
Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is an editorial, and the topic is the wave of drones, license plate readers, and other technology moving into patrol work, and what actually changes officer capability versus what just moves money around. Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air...
I have worked with Dr. Will Dabbs for much of my career as an editor and consider him to be both an exceptional contributor and a good friend. No matter the deadline or the assignment, I always know that I can count on him to deliver a well-rounded, thoroughly researched and — most importantly ...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a gun Walther never built, made by a man who spent forty years building guns nobody built. John V. Martz served in the Navy during the war, put in twenty five years as an aircraft sheet metal man at McClellan Air Force Base, and started mes...
Epson and BenQ are household names among the casual tech set and those who like to get outdoors, but you will not find the same recognition for Soundcore or its Nebula line. Soundcore is Anker’s brand for audio, putting out some portable speakers and headphones on the market and Nebula is their...
“It was scary, you know? The damnedest thing…” The old Marine flicked at a bright yellow tie he was wearing. “We were ordered to take Atabrine to prevent malaria. Most of us did that but it tended to turn our eyes and skin a bright yellow. And then a rumor started that the stuff would Rea...
For more than a century, infantry units have fought under an unforgiving reality: When you’re humping a ruck through non-cooperative terrain and you run face-first into an entrenched bunker, fortified machine-gun nest or enemy light armor, your options for immediate heavy fire support are painf...
NIST’s review of firearm microstamping research found significant disagreement over whether the technology can reliably produce repeatable, legible markings. The findings arrive as California moves toward a conditional 2028 mandate for semiautomatic pistols.
Getting troops and equipment across the battlefield is a vital part of every theater operation — Soldiers and their kits, as well as spare ammunition and other supplies, all need to arrive quickly, with nothing left behind — or risk jeopardizing the mission. The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle a...
During the morning of March 24, 1945, more than 9,000 men of the US 17th Airborne Division landed behind German lines on the east side of the Rhine. While the Wehrmacht was in deep trouble, many of their units remained effective, and any available Panzers could pose a significant threat to the fr...