Podcast: The Spear – Sniper Fire in Baghdad
In the fall of 2006, Rory McGovern was a lieutenant, serving as a company fire support officer for...
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Timothy Heck | 08.15.24 | The Spear
In the fall of 2006, Rory McGovern was a lieutenant, serving as a company fire support officer for...
Read MoreTimothy Heck | 07.17.24 | The Spear
Two years ago, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought the no-fly zone back into public...
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For then-Major Bill “Fenway” Wyman, Sadr City in 2004 was a strange mix of combat and humanitarian...
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In 2004, Lt. Col. Blake Schwartz was an infantry platoon leader deployed in Uruzgan province,...
Read MoreTimothy Heck, Brett Friedman and Walker Mills | 03.18.24 | Commentary & Analysis
Marines have long been mythologized as an elite fighting force. Richard Harding Davis’s famously...
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