“Gli australiani non andarono, così andarono i britannici” — La pattuglia nel deserto che cambiò il Nord Africa. hyn
Six weeks. That’s how long a British major with sand in his boots and a sun compass he’d built himself was given to create a military unit from nothing. Six weeks to recruit men, find vehicles, scavenge weapons, learn to…
Perché il “peggior generale” d’America era l’unico che potesse battere Rommel. hyn
March 6th, 1943. A dust-caked motorcycle messenger flags down an American general riding alone near Casablanca. The message is urgent. Get to Tunisia immediately. The American second core has been devastated. Its soldiers scattered across 85 miles of Tunisian desert,…
Cosa disse Patton al generale nazista che definì il suo esercito “dilettanti” . hyn
February 1943. The wind howling through the jagged peaks and deep treacherous valleys of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia carries the metallic stench of burning steel, the agonizing cries of the wounded, and the bitter suffocating taste of total American…
“La notte in cui sentirono che i Gurkha stavano arrivando” . hyn
La notte in cui sentirono che i Gurkha stavano arrivando Maggio 1982, porto di Southampton. L’alba era grigia, piatta, senza colore. Sembrava che il cielo stesso trattenesse il respiro. Su una passerella metallica, 650 uomini salivano lentamente verso la pancia…
Labour given bombshell warning over migrant hotel and cash support – ‘not far enough’
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will revoke European laws to automatically provide arrivals with support. Labour given bombshell warning over asylum support (Image: Getty) Labour’s plan to boot foreign criminals and migrants caught working illegally out of asylum hotels doesn’t go far…
UK-France migrant bill to soar past £1.3 BILLION after Labour agrees new deal
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will give Paris £500 million to pay for an increase in police patrols, a new vessel and more. France is being given another £660m to stop Channel migrant crossings (Image: AP) Labour will give France another “astonishing”…
Cosa dissero le Forze Speciali USA quando il SAS australiano operò da solo nella provincia più letale dell’Afghanistan. hyn
September 2008, Urusan Province, Afghanistan. 4 in the morning and the valley was the color of ash. No moon, no sound except the crunch of boots on dry rock and the low idle of diesel engines barely held above a…
L’operatore della Delta Force che vide 6 uomini del SAS ripulire un edificio disse che non dormì mai più allo stesso modo. hyn
4 minutes and 19 seconds. That is how long it took six men to enter a three-story building in Mosul, move through four rooms, kill four armed men, and come back out with a high-value target alive, restrained, and under…
“Vi uccideremo tutti fino all’ultimo!” urlò. Il comandante SAS aprì il suo taccuino e disse: “Nomi?”. hyn
The video was 43 seconds long. In it, a man stands in front of roughly 60 armed fighters somewhere in northern Mosul, January 2005. He is not hiding his face. He is not lowering his voice. He looks directly into…
“Vi fate chiamare uomini rana?” — Quando lo SBS superò a nuoto e in combattimento i SEAL. hyn
Six men swam 9 km through contested waters, reached a fortified oil platform, and extracted two high-value targets in under 4 hours. 3 weeks earlier, a 24-man SEAL Team Six element, supported by two nuclear submarines, a destroyer, and assets…