This episode of The Spear is the second in a two-part series featuring three guests who took part in the Battle of Mogadishu, made famous by the book Black Hawk Down and the movie of the same name. This episode picks up where the last one left off, with our guests—from the Army's most elite units—describing how they react as the battle quickly intensifies. (This episode originally ran in 2018.)
In an episode of The Spear released in June 2021, Karl Blanke shared a story that featured the actions of one of his former...
In the second episode in a two-part series, Misty Cantwell recounts the ongoing combat operations she conducted in Sadr City, Iraq, in 2003. A...
For seventeen years, the US military has been at war in Afghanistan. The guests on this episode were there at the very beginning. Jason...