Inside Burma’s Dirty War, Part III
Robert Young Pelton heads deep inside the jungle of Burma to meet rebels, mercenaries, missionaries, and monks. All are engaged in the world’s longest running civil war. At the center of this conflict are the Free Burma Rangers, led by a former US Special Forces soldier known as The Father of the White Monkey. I ask Doug why he calls his operation “Free Burma Rangers.” Like many of Doug’s decisions, it is intuitive and simple. “I made up the...
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Inside Burma’s Dirty War, Part II
“Dawa” is the home of the legendary Free Burma Rangers, or FBR as they are called. To some, the FBR is an “up the river” paramilitary force run by a deeply Christian, former Special Forces Major who goes by the name The Father of the White Monkey. Others will tell you that the FBR’s secretive leader is the most effective foreigner working with the rebels deep inside Burma against the Generals. Thai Boon waves his hands. “Crazy Amish Christian relief...
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The Longest Sniper Shots
The longest sniper shots on record are amazing feats of marksmanship. The men who made the shots got about as much performance out of their weapons systems as possible. But not everyone’s convinced those shots happened. So we ran the ballistics, talked to a few experts, and had look for ourselves. By Will Grant A McMillan TAC-50 rifle A British sniper currently holds the publicly known record for a confirmed kill shot. As a Corporal of Horse in the British...
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Come Back Alive: Driving
An excerpt from Robert Young Pelton’s book Come Back Alive When just under half of all accidental deaths in this country are caused by motor vehicle accidents, it pays to learn how to shave the odds. Frighteningly, 80 percent of the deaths of Americans between sixteen and eighteen years old are caused by automobile accidents. There’s about a 33 percent chance you’ll one day be involved in a car accident. If auto accidents were a lottery, a good chunk of...
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Batlskin: The Latest in Modular Head Protection
The modern theater of asymmetric warfare has changed our equipment, the ways we fight, and the ways we protect our soldiers. From ballistic underwear to MRAPs, our military has responded in countless ways to the warzone environments we’ve faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. A third of all combat-related injuries requiring medical attention are traumatic brain injuries. Between 2001 and 2011, 320,000 soldiers suffered from TBIs–most of those the result of improvised explosive devices. The need to better protect our warfighters’...
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EDC: Changes to Your Knife Rights in 2012
By Will Grant When the fathers of the United States framed the Constitution as supreme law of the country in 1787, they granted each American citizen the unalienable right to keep and bear arms. While that clause of the Second Amendment is generally thought of as referring to the legal right to own and carry a firearm, it was originally based on a citizen’s right to defend him or herself. And that includes the right to carry a knife. The...
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Legacy Power Wagon
By Will Grant When Dodge released the Power Wagon in 1946 it was one of the first such vehicles offered to the public. Based on the TWDX and WC trucks of WWII, it was a four-wheel-drive workhorse that became the inspiration for nearly all sport-utility trucks to follow. The original models had a 230-cubic inch flat head six engine, beefy Corporate Closed-Knuckle axles with 5.83 gears, and atop speed of 52 miles per hour. Dana 60 eight-lug axles, and power...
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Down the Gambia
By Will Grant In a remote corner of West Africa, the River Gambia remains one of the last major undammed rivers on the continent. Flowing from a small rivulet in the Guinean highlands, known as the Fouta Djallon, the river runs northwest and west for 733 miles to its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean—a six-mile-wide estuary of mangroves, sand bars, and braided streams. In what may be the first source-to-sea descent of the river, Jason Florio, a New York-based photographer,...
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Inside Burma’s Dirty War, Part I
Robert Young Pelton heads deep inside the jungle of Burma to meet rebels, mercenaries, missionaries, and monks. All are engaged in the world’s longest running civil war. At the center of this conflict are the Free Burma Rangers, led by a former US Special Forces soldier known as The Father of the White Monkey. Kawthoolie – The distant sound of steady mortar fire didn’t seem to bother Lt Col Nerdah. Nerdah is the 41-year-old commander of the 6th Brigade and...
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Hijacked: How the U.N. Saved Piracy
By Robert Young Pelton (This story originally appeared in Foreign Policy Magazine) Cocktail hour, the Gulf of Aden In October of last year, I set sail from Dubai on an aging 160-meter cargo ship laden with supplies for Somalia. For me, as publisher of Somalia Report, it was a chance to experience pirate waters up close. I had met pirates on land and in prison, and had counted their captured ships neatly lined up from the air — but I...
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Team Rubicon Deploys Veterans in Wake of Natural Disasters
By Will Grant As the most destructive storm in the history of the US spins out its energy over the Northeast, the relief efforts are underway. From the Pentagon to the Red Cross to local grocery stores across the country, thousands of people are offering support and aid. Among the organizations stepping in to help is Team Rubicon, a veteran-based volunteer organization that offers relief in the wake of natural disasters. From its nationwide network of 4,000 military veterans, the...
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