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Share This: There are lots of motivational sayings relating to not giving up until you quite literally can’t go any further—”don’t leave any gas in the tank,” for instance. These relate to the idea that you never quite know when success is right around the corner and just hanging in there for a tiny bit more time might get you to your objective. There are sayings for that as well, including, “The night is darkest just before the dawn,” but I like to think of this one in a more military way and use the analogy of not leaving any rounds in the magazine.

Andy McNab's SAS guide to lunch hour drinking 14th April 2021 LIKE an SAS operation, lunch hour drinking requires you to go in fast, get the job done and get the hell out of there after an hour. Here Andy McNab advises how to do it. Recon You don’t want some pub full of girly wankers blocking the bar as they pointlessly decide whether to get a rocket salad or a whole bottle of shiraz. Select a target with clear bar space by hiding in a nearby bush with night vision binoculars for 48 hours.  Synchronise watches, check GPS You want to get in there slightly ahead of the luncht...

The Pentagon Learned the Hard Way That Scud Missile Hunting Wasn’t Easy The failure to destroy the launchers highlights how easy it can be to overestimate damage inflicted upon an enemy, and how difficult it is to hunt down an opponent intent on using hit-and-run tactics. Here's What You Need to Know: Coalition air and Special Ops units claimed the destruction of over one hundred Scud launchers by the end of the war, and many operational histories repeat the claims of efficient Scud-destruction. But when Pentagon did its own postwar assessment, it came to a very different conclusion: it ...

So, now the novel, Better to Die, is finally out there, quite a few readers have been asking me what my influences have been. I must say, they’re pretty eclectic. As a kid, I thrived on the works of Captain W E Johns, whose granite-jawed, flying hero, Biggles, invariably overcame all challenges through an admirable combination of bravery, honesty and fair play. Although Biggles books are now aimed at children, it seems that Johns’ target audience shifted over time. In one early short story (The Baloonatics) the prize for capturing a German observation balloon transforms from b...