Famous Navy Ships: The USS Maddox

The United States Navy commissioned the USS Maddox toward the end of World War II as a fast carrier escort for action in the Philippines and South China Sea. Read more

John Chivington: From Glorieta Pass to the Sand Creek Massacre

Major John M. Chivington, Colorado’s “fighting parson,” played a large role in the Union victory at Glorieta Pass, New Mexico, in 1862. Read more

Famous Navy Ships: The USS Phoenix & ARA General Belgrano

The USS Phoenix fought under two flags during her 44-year career. She gained initial prominence as a United States ship during World War II and concluded her career as an Argentinian combat casualty in the Falklands War of 1982. Read more

Game Reviews: Updates to World of Tanks & Sniper Elite III

by Joseph Luster

If you’ve been holding out on getting Rebellion Development’s Sniper Elite III on consoles, there’s now an even better way to get into the x-ray-blasting action. Read more

Military Book Reviews: March 2015

World War I was only days old when German General of the Infantry Hermann von François went forward to view his soldiers engaged in combat south of Stalluponen in East Prussia. Read more

An American Legend: The 1903 Springfield Rifle

In 1896, the .30-40 “Model 1896 Krag Rifle” became the standard United States Army’s first bolt-action, magazine, smokeless-powder service rifle. Read more

Why Operation Sea Lion, the Nazi Invasion of England, Never Happened

Without doubt, the fall of France was an unmitigated disaster for the Allied cause. However, for all its failures in command, strategy, and tactics, it could have been much worse. Read more

The USS Washington Battleship: How it Turned the Pacific Tide

Prior to American entrance into World War II, the USS Washington battleship’s initial assignment was escorting supply ships between England and Russia in support of the Lend Lease Act. Read more

Famous Navy Ships: The USS Pueblo & the “Pueblo Incident”

In the midst of the Vietnam War, one of the most famous ships of the era was an electronic and signal intelligence ship posted off the east coast of North Korea. Read more

What to See at Fort Donelson National Battlefield

The soldiers of the two armies at Fort Donelson awoke on the morning of February 15, 1862, to another frigid morning. Read more

‪Important Women in World War 2: Female Spies

Mention spies and most people will think of James Bond or Ethan Hunt from Mission Impossible, but most people would struggle to name some notable female spies—apart perhaps from Mata Hari—yet they have always existed. Read more

Famous Navy Ships: USS Olympia, Flagship of Unexpected Imperialism

The later half of the 19th Century was a defining time for the American Navy as it began to modernize its ship design and tactical thinking. Read more

Union General John T. Croxton’s Southern Odyssey

After escaping from Brig. Gen. William H. Jackson’s Confederate division on April 1, Union Brig. Gen. John T. Read more

The French and Indian War: Duquesne to Louisbourg

From 1756 to 1763, the armies of Great Britain and France fought the French and Indian War for preeminence in North America. Read more

Game Features: Vietnam 65

No static occupations, no traditional front lines, and growing opposition from both the local population and citizens back home—for America, Vietnam was a very different kind of war. Read more

Paul Allen Finds Musashi, Sunk During Battle of Leyte Gulf

Today, billionaire Paul Allen has claimed to have found the Musashi, flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet, sunk during one of the largest naval engagements in history. Read more

Naval History: The Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War

At the turn of the 19th Century, Japanese incursions into Korea forced Russia to fortify her ports at Vladivostok and Port Arthur. Read more

“To the Shores of Tripoli…”: The Tripolitan War & Birth of the Navy

Following the exploits of John Paul Jones and the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, the U.S. Read more

Failed Confederate Ambush at the Battle of Bentonville

The weary Union foot soldiers tramped north toward Goldsboro the morning of March 19, 1865. Foragers who had gone out at sunup reported the heavy presence of Confederate cavalry on the route of march. Read more