Russia's elite counter-terrorism force, Spetsnaz Group Alfa, face a near-impossible task: to save 800 people held hostage by 40 heavily-armed Chechen rebels and suicide bombers inside a Moscow theater packed with explosives.

In one of the most famous raids ever, the Unit storms the Ugandan airport at Entebbe to free hostages.

A wealth of information via social media amid the Mumbai attacks only adds confusion to a chaotic situation, particularly within the ranks of the Indian government.

Mumbai is under bloody attack and India's National Security Guard, nicknamed the Black Cats, were called to stop the chaos, operating under four main directives.

After the Spetznaz eliminates their Chechen separatist captors a gross and tragic oversight ends up killing many of the hostages.

The Unit, the "long arm of the IDF," is the most lethally trained force that Israel possesses.

After intelligence gathering on the occupiers of the mystery residence in Abbottabad is complete Head of JSOC Admiral McRaven offers three plans of attack, with the direct commando approach eventually becoming the best choice.

A surveillance team has been sent in by the British army to scout out the location of their captured soldiers and to either wait for back-up or withdraw.

Operation Certain Death gets under way to rescue British soldiers from the West Side Boys in Sierra Leone.

After a decade of searching, the CIA begins to activate agents on the ground after they identify in a mysterious compound in Pakistan an HVT, a High Value Target, that they believe is Osama Bin Laden.

Sierra Leone, Africa is engulfed in civil war, and British soldiers have been captured by the West Side Boys, who are led by a schizophrenic leader.

During the British raid, the once feared West Side Boys' leader was found in a surprsing place.

The SAS conduct a bloody albeit successful raid on a compound housing Al Qaeda militants and important senior leaders in a bid to get closer to Al-Zarqawi.

A surveillance team has been sent in by the British army to scout out the location of their captured soldiers and to either wait for back-up or withdraw.

Operation Certain Death gets under way to rescue British soldiers from the West Side Boys in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone, Africa is engulfed in civil war, and British soldiers have been captured by the West Side Boys, who are led by a schizophrenic leader.

The Articles of Confederation proved to be more trouble than help, with individual states all pushing their interests and agendas, to the point of threatening the country as a whole.

Paul Revere has been billed as America?s first action hero after his famous "Midnight Ride" but as truth would have it, he was part of a network.

George Washington was preceded by several other Presidents of the United States.

Our vision of Paul Revere's midnight ride is all wrong, especially how it concludes.

In 1932 Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell mounted a simulated attack on Pearl Harbor utilizing carrier-based airplanes to expose how vulnerable it was to a carrier-borne attack. The Japanese took notice.

Such were his powers of organization and logistics, Dwight Eisenhower was always kept away from combat because he made others better and more well-prepared for it.

There are many misconceptions surrounding our understanding of General George Armstrong Custer and his final campaign against the Plains Indians but the actual facts are more compelling than the fiction.

A small anecdote from the crossing of the Mayflower to America reveals that an indentured servant, John Howland was swept off the deck of the ship during a storm, and that had he not been saved US history would have taken a different turn.

Witness how childhood boredom escalated into the mass hysteria that led to the Salem Witch Trials.

There were actually two boats of Pilgrims that left England for the US, and Plymouth Rock was not the first place the Mayflower disembarked.

When one thinks of America's first amusement ride Coney Island comes to mind, but another ride in Pennsylvania was attracting large crowds of thrill-seekers a decade before.

Halloween in the early-to-mid-20th century was not a sweet nor pleasant holiday, but an excuse for pranks and general mischief.

Just as with their flags there are many misconceptions about pirates and how they operated.