Opinion & Essay
After living in and reporting from Ukraine the last nine years, conflict journalist Nolan Peterson h...
Twelve years ago, I saw one of my fellow Marines survive a sniper’s bullet to the head. I’m realizing now that I was fortunate to have been there to witness it.
This paramedic's stethoscope was an extension of his ears through the nearly five years he spent on ...
How a one-way ticket to Costa Rica and a panic attack forced a Marine sniper to stop chasing the dragon and start facing it.
The Crown Victoria Police Interceptor is quickly becoming a thing of the past. As the last remaining...
The man who built this magazine from the ground up is saying farewell, but our mission here remains the same.
For years, my brothers and I had been trained to take lives in the most violent ways possible; now, I was using my experience to try and save lives.
Mileage may vary when it comes to Joseph Heller’s Catch‑22, but I rarely find a fellow service member who’s read the book who doesn’t at least find the material recognizable in their own experiences.
Rory Hamill later described it as a moment of clarity. A moment when the image of his children flashed through his mind.
The sound of gunshots echoed through the school, bouncing off the walls like a demon roaring just ar...
As I watched the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan, I realized that my own generation o...
I could feel the tension as I walked into our impromptu San Antonio command center. We were preparing to announce our intention to go public the following day.
I fucked up. That’s what I thought as I sat in Iraq with US troops in March 2020, confined to the air base at Erbil International Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan with no going in or out.
Black Rifle Coffee Company was born from a desire to be free of government service. The founders of this company reached a point where we needed to replace a commander’s intent with personal drive.
Don’t let this moment go to waste / you don’t know when the feeling will happen again. I can’t keep myself from repeating the lyrics in my mind.
Afghanistan used to haunt my dreams. Now it hurts my heart.
The Arizona-based tech and weapons company Axon Enterprise announced plans on Thursday, June 2, to d...
KYIV, Ukraine — The Russian drone orbited over the Ukrainians’ position all day. Denys Antipov, a fi...
We’re at 10,188 feet on the mountain when I start to worry. The numbness in my toes has crept into my ankles and is now climbing up my shins toward my knees.
An all-new Punisher series is coming to the Marvel Universe in March of 2022, and with it comes a ma...
KYIV, Ukraine — When the clocks strike midnight this evening, it will mark a new year — and for Ukra...
When I was about 6 or 7, I discovered my dad’s pictures from Vietnam. In them, he and Marines from his infantry company — posed around the An Hoa Basin — were in the prime of their youth.
I was already awake with my usual insomnia around 2:30 in the morning on Thursday, Dec. 16, when I heard a loud, frightening bang.
The day after Gen. Colin Powell died at 84, I was eating chili at a dingy bar in Austin, Texas, when...
In April 1961, several retired French generals, aided by a coterie of active-duty colonels and their...
Do you remember the Battle of Ia Drang? The words echoed loudly in my memory after a journalist frie...
As soon as the United States announced a final withdrawal date from Afghanistan, I knew the elite Af...
In the pitch dark, I looked out across the Jalalabad flight line. It was 11 years later, I wasn’t in...
The Global War on Terror is nearly two decades old, and somehow the Air Force still hasn’t acquired ...
As the US National Defense Strategy seeks to counter China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific region, the US Navy has a lot of challenges ahead.
Glancing down at the park map wadded in my fist, I studied the road names. My vision blurring, I struggled to read the words as they danced rhythmically with my heartbeat.
War. It’s an experience that I craved from the first time I had memories.
In the war zone of eastern Ukraine, Avdiivka’s civilians have lived under the shadow of shelling and rockets and gun battles for more than seven years.
May 4 is International Firefighters’ Day. After his first day on the job as a new firefighter in Asheville, North Carolina, Mike Schoeffel, wrote this essay about what he saw and felt.
Power belts, eye protection, and hand grenades — oh my! And all the sergeants major said, “Hell yeah!” While the staff sergeants rolled their eyes. Let me explain.
Even as a small girl growing up in Australia’s countryside, I knew April 25 was a day not to cry or ...
In 2003, as the 75th Ranger Regiment shifted its attention to the war in Iraq, C Company of the 2nd ...
Trench warfare is a true test of a soldier’s grit. The thing is, there’s no escaping the danger.
CORSICANA, Texas — We are flying on “jump run,” cruising at about 100 mph in a World War II vintage ...
Nearly two decades into a war on terror, American service members and veterans enjoy strong public s...
The recent bill passed by the House of Representatives, known as the George Floyd Justice in Policin...
Two days before we were blown up by an insurgent IED in Ramadi, my teammate got a letter from his da...
Eugene Goodman never expected to find himself fighting for his life again, but as he ascended the st...
The F-35 has been a favorite whipping boy of defense critics for many years now. Recently, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen.
Last week, I traveled to Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego to document the arrival and start of r...
Super Bowl Sunday is a day of parties, drinking, and chicken wings for most Americans. For me, it’s ...
The other day I received one of those compliments that makes a reporter uneasy. An Iraq war battle buddy called me “the only newsman he ever trusted.
KYIV, Ukraine — I walk alone on a gray winter day. The bare branches bend in the cold wind.
