Italian commandos navigate deadly nets and mines, facing mechanical failures and freezing waters, as they attempt to plant ...

On Dec. 19, 1941, in the pre-dawn darkness, six Italian commandos slipped into Alexandria harbor in Egypt. British troops and sailors had spotted an Italian reconnaissance plane days earlier, and ...

I recently discovered a World War II commando who was an unsung action hero — Irishman Lt. Col. Robert “Paddy” Mayne, one of the most decorated British Army officers of the war. Born in 1915 to a ...

June 22, 2006 — -- The news this week that a major component of the U.S.-backed "war on drugs" seems to be failing brought back a flood of memories for me. The reports come from Colombia where ...