August 2025
Baptism of Fire: The First Rangers in North Africa
By the fall of 1942, the newly formed U.S. Army Rangers had completed their grueling training in Scotland. Volunteers had been pushed to their limits at the Commando training center, learning night raids, amphibious assaults, demolitions, and small-unit tactics. Now it was time to find out if the experiment worked. …
Before the Rangers: America’s Need for Elite Infantry
In modern war films and documentaries, elite soldiers moving silently through the darkness have become a familiar image. Small teams striking deep behind enemy lines. Fast assaults on critical targets. Soldiers trained to operate where conventional forces cannot. Today, the United States Army Rangers are synonymous with that kind of …
The Great Raid: How the 6th Rangers, Alamo Scouts, and Filipino Guerrillas Pulled Off WWII’s Boldest POW Rescue
Date & place: January 30, 1945, Pangatian POW camp near Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. Why this raid had to happen In late 1944, as U.S. forces returned to Luzon, intelligence and survivor reports warned that the Japanese were killing prisoners rather than letting them be liberated, the Palawan massacre on …