Ultimate Warfare

US Special Forces attempt to take a Taliban stronghold in Kandahar, Afghanistan, but face an insurgency five times their size. Facing constant counter-attacks, the operation is a battle for their lives.

After three years of war in Vietnam, the North Vietnamese Army takes the city of Hue, South Vietnam, in a surprise attack. US Marines are sent to take back the city, building by building, and street by street.

After an initial retreat, US forces return to Fallujah, Iraq, to reclaim it from insurgents. The operation is meant to be a 48-hour battle, but the hostiles, armed with IEDs and a stockpile of grenades, fight back furiously.

In what would become one of the most brutal and decisive battles of the Iraq War, a battalion of US tanks punches a hole right into the heart of Saddam Hussein's Baghdad.

The biggest naval battle in history is decided when a small group of under-armed, ill-prepared US ships finds themselves in a chaotic and ferocious fight against the Japanese Navy and the largest battleships ever built.

In 1968, North Vietnamese soldiers lay siege to a remote US outpost at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam. The 6,000 Marines stationed there find themselves surrounded and outnumbered and must fight for survival against a vast army.

American intelligence discovers an imminent attack by the Japanese on the strategic island of Midway Atoll. They prepare for a preemptive strike against the most powerful navy in the world.

Within striking distance of the mainland, American forces land unopposed on the island of Okinawa, Japan. However, moving south, the US troops encounter 120,000 concealed Japanese soldiers.

Three months into the Korean War, 17,000 US Marines cross into North Korea. As they move up into the Chosin Reservoir region, they are ambushed by 120,000 Chinese soldiers and must fight their way back down to safety.

American forces are assaulted by the Germans in the Ardennes Forest, leading to the Battle of the Bulge, the biggest and bloodiest battle of World War II.