The 2015 film Battle for Sevastopol is the true story of how Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a female Soviet sniper who killed more than 300 Axis soldiers during World War II, became a gal-pal of the first lady of the United States. That’s a topic so compelling in and of itself that it’s worth putting up with Battle…
Happy Flag Day America!
On This Day In History in 1777, Congress Adopts the Stars and Stripes. During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white” and that “the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.” The…
Crusader Corner: ISIS Assassinates French Police Commander and Wife In Their Home With a Knife
Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani has called on Muslims to “get prepared, be ready … to make it a month of calamity everywhere for nonbelievers…especially for the fighters and supporters of the caliphate in Europe and America.” This Muslim killed the policeman and his wife with a knife. Clearly we need knife control. “Paris…
Military History: 8 Unbelievable Stories from the Second Battle of Fallujah
Veterans from 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines share their incredible stories from the Second Battle of Fallujah. This time of year marks the anniversary of one of the most storied battles in recent Marine Corps history: the Second Battle of Fallujah. The city became the scene of brutal urban combat when American, Iraqi, and British forces…
World War II History: Could Long-Lost Amber Room Be Stashed in a Nazi Bunker in Poland?
There is perhaps no lost-treasure mystery more seductive than that of the priceless Amber Room of Peter the Great, which disappeared in the chaotic closing hours of World War II. Now Bartlomiej Plebanczyk, an unassuming historian and museum director in northeastern Poland, believes he has found it. Elderly villagers told Mr. Plebanczyk that they had…
Military Aviation History: The First Anti-Aircraft Gun
The Prussian made “Ballon Kanone” was the first Purpose Made AA Gun The first untethered balloon flight took place on Nov. 21, 1783, with the first military use occurring during the French Revolutionary Wars. A century later during the Franco-Prussian War, the French again deployed observation balloons — and when Prussian troops besieged Paris, they became a…
Bad-Ass Files: John Coffee Hays, The Original Bad-Ass Texan!
19th century badass gunslinging Texas Ranger John Coffee Hays is the ultimate rea-life asskicker whose story bizarrely ties together the more well-known tales of Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood, Zachary Taylor, Wyatt Earp, and the dude with the shotgun who smokes all those fucking buffalo when you go hunting in The Oregon…
The Twisted Logic of the Lib-Tard Media and Anti-Gun Crowd
By Hammerhead I have never been one to waste my time (or yours) trying to argue with liberal no nuts about Americans 2A Rights, I simply have better things to do…Like Preparing to Protect myself and my family from Terrorist. But when I saw this article in the NY Times, combined with the terrible reporting…
Denial of Jihad and Fear of Islamophobia Killed 49 People, Not Assault Weapons with High Capacity Magazines
This is a combination of excerpts from two articles by John R. Schindler. Jihad Denial Kills…Again America just suffered our worst terrorist attack since 9/11. We need to start talking honestly about the enemy that keeps butchering Americans. Tonight we burn illusions. A terrorist attack on a popular gay club in Orlando, Florida in the…
Military Defense News: US Military Relearning Conventional Warfare
Forces relearning conventional warfare after 15 years of fighting terrorists TWENTYNINE PALMS (California) • Kilo Company of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines was deep in a simulated firefight on a recent morning in the high California desert. A group of Marines on the aptly named Machine Gun Hill unleashed live fire as another group of…