Michael Anderson | Historical Operations & Military Affairs Writer
Michael Anderson is a defense writer and military affairs contributor at TheDefenseWatch.com. He covers military strategy, special operations, modern warfare, defense technology, and international security developments.
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B-2 Spirit Demonstrates U.S. Global Strike Reach With F-35 and F-22 Fighters
Takeaways The Freedom 250 Grand Prix flyover brought together U.S. stealth fighters…
World War I Map: Europe, Alliances and Major Fronts
A WW1 map of Europe provides a visual explanation of how a…
10 Totally Wild Cancelled Combat Aircraft of the 1980s
The Fighters That Never Were: 10 Cancelled Combat Aircraft of the 1980s…
Operation Chastise: How 19 Lancasters and a Bouncing Bomb Broke the Ruhr’s Dams
At just after midnight on May 17, 1943, a specially modified Avro…
Operation Jericho (1944): The RAF Mosquito Raid That Redefined Low Altitude Precision Air Strikes
On 18 February 1944, the Royal Air Force launched one of the…
Operation Mole Cricket 19: How Israel Erased an Entire Soviet SAM Network in Two Hours
On the morning of June 9, 1982, in the narrow farmland corridor…
Operation Black Buck: How an Obsolete Nuclear Bomber Flew 8,000 Miles to Bomb a Runway
Shortly before midnight on 30 April 1982, a delta-winged relic of the…
Operation Aphrodite: Inside America’s Doomed WWII Drone Bomber Program
Ten obsolete B-17 Flying Fortresses, stripped of their cockpit glass and packed…