War and Attack #54

In March 1944, Oberkapitän Wolfgang Schiel realizes his audacious dream when Nazi High Command finally authorizes his "Werewolf Brigade"—an elite SS strike force designed to infiltrate deep behind Allied lines and sow chaos at the heart of American command. With his cousin Kapitän Otto von Roen's revolutionary undetectable U-boat (built of wood and plastics to evade sonar detection), Schiel's handpicked soldiers embark on their first mission: to surface near Paris and strike terror into SHAEF headquarters itself. As the submarine creeps up the Seine River undetected, the stage is set for a daring raid that could alter the course of the war—if the Werewolves can pull off the impossible.

During the frozen Korean winter of 1951, Cpl. Jim Kearns refuses to share his supplies with PFC Ned Arnell, a young replacement suffering terribly in the cold—until a sergeant intervenes and teaches Kearns a hard lesson about unit responsibility. When enemy forces attack the outpost, Kearns discovers that his earlier selfishness may cost him his life, and Arnell faces a choice that will test whether he's learned something important about survival.

In this speculative look at future warfare, "Tomorrow's Weapons" explores the terrifying arsenal humanity may deploy in conflicts to come—from laser-ray guns that can vaporize battleships to weather-control devices and undersea settlements designed for survival. The story examines how technological advancement, far from bringing peace, threatens to make warfare more devastating and impersonal than ever before. As mankind develops ever more destructive capabilities, the real question becomes whether our wisdom can keep pace with our ingenuity.

When a planned strike on Viet Cong forces keeps missing its mark, American commanders suspect a security leak in their ranks—and devise a daring trap by feeding false intelligence to flush out the enemy. As the 1st Airmobile Division pursues Viet Cong columns through dense jungle northwest of Lhu Doc, American and Vietnamese troops execute a coordinated squeeze play, but must adapt when the enemy proves elusive and resourceful in their underground strongholds. This story captures the tactical cat-and-mouse warfare of the Vietnam conflict, where every advantage—and every disadvantage—could tip the balance in the jungle.