For over forty years the M1 tank has been a world class fighting vehicle. But what you might not know is that the M1 should not have been built!
Ed Nash has spent years traveling around the world. Between June 2015 and July 2016 he volunteered with the Kurdish YPG in its battle against ISIS in Syria; his book on his experiences, Desert Sniper, was published by Little, Brown in September 2018.
In 2021, I was fortunate enough to spend some time on the island of Grenada in the Caribbean. Located around 90 miles north of Venezuela, like many of the countries in the region, Grenada is a sleepy tropical island where the people are friendly, the beaches are...
In the mid-1930s, the world’s major air forces recognised that the rapid advances made in aerodynamics and engines in the first half of that decade meant that they needed to update their fighter fleets as a matter of urgency. This led to some of the most famous...
The attack helicopter equipped with anti-tank guided weapons is one of the greatest threats on the modern battlefield to conventional armoured forces. While the earliest examples were not exactly the most efficient, they laid the groundwork. And then, in 1972, the US...
