Bloody Betio: The Assault on Tarawa
By Al HemingwayPfc. Clayton Jay of Lamesa, Texas, was watching the sunrise from the attack transport Zeilin in the early morning hours of November 19, 1943. Read more
The USS England’s Hedgehog Weapons System
By A.B. FeuerIn the Spring of 1944, Japanese Admiral Soemu Toyoda assembled a large fleet of warships at Tawi-Tawi in the southern Philippine Islands. Read more
Simon Schuster’s ‘The Showman’
By Christopher MiskimonThe distant thundering of Russian missiles and bombs awoke Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine, at 4:30 a.m. Read more
Terrence Loveridge’s ‘ The Road Past Monchy’
By Christopher MiskimonThe village of Monchy-le-Preux sits on a low hill east of Arras. During World War I, this otherwise minor local became a focal point for the hellish fighting of that conflict. Read more
Jeffrey J. Matthews’ ‘Generals and Admirals, Criminals and Crooks’
By Christopher MiskimonThere are many American flag officers who stand as exemplars of duty, integrity and honor. Unfortunately, there are others whose legacies are examples of immoral and unethical conduct, lessons in what not to do. Read more
Mikael Cook’s ‘Life and Death at Abbey Gate’
By Christopher MiskimonAs the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, the situation quickly became chaotic. A group of veterans, intelligence operatives and even legislative aides worked to evacuate Afghans who had worked with them for two decades and were now being left behind. Read more
Gregory Fremont-Barnes’s ‘Urban Battlefields’
By Christopher MiskimonThe Russian Army attacked the city of Grozny in Chechnya on December 31, 1994. It sent several columns into the city from the north, east and west simultaneously, intent on quickly overawing the local population and seizing control of the city. Read more
Michael Livingston’s ‘Crecy: Battle of Five Kings’
By Christopher MiskimonOn August 26, 1346, the British army had ceased its northward retreat as its leaders decided to make a stand against the pursuing French forces. Read more
Kenneth P. White’s ‘The Battle of Bong Son’
By Christopher MiskimonTwo months after the hard fighting in the Ia Drang Valley, newly promoted Colonel Harold G. Moore led a new operation against the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). Read more
Robert Forczyk’s ‘Port Arthur 1904-05’
By Christopher MiskimonThe Russo-Japanese War began with a surprise naval attack by the Japanese Navy on the Russian Pacific Fleet at Port Arthur. Read more
The Battle of Leuctra and the Rise of Thebes
By Joshua ShepherdAcross a broad valley near the Greek village of Leuctra, the summer sun beat down on 16,000 anxious Greek warriors. Read more
Roles of Women in World War 1: The Russian Battalion of Death
By Don DuffyBy spring 1917, Russia had borne the heaviest burden of World War I. Russian reports counted more than six million men killed, wounded, or interned as prisoners of war. Read more
Fighting the Tiger
By Eric NiderostOn August 16, 1866 a mysterious ship appeared off the western Korean coast and began to steam up the Taedong River. Read more
Victory Delayed: The Battle for Air Supremacy in World War II
By Eric HammelThe popular conception of the struggle in the air over northern Europe during World War II is of squadrons of sleek fighters racing over the German heartland to protect contrailed streams of lumbering bombers stretching beyond sight. Read more
Operation Overlord’s Colonel Alexis von Roenne
By David Alan JohnsonDuring the early part of 1944, an event took place that would change the outcome of World War II. Read more
The West Point Museum contains a cornucopia of martial treasures.
By Blaine TaylorThe boots and riding crop of the Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Corps, General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing, are there, as well as the cap and jacket of his successor in a second world war, General Dwight D. Read more
Capturing Caen
By Alan DavidgeOne of the most important tasks for Allied troops after the D-Day landing was to seize the city of Caen, nine miles behind Sword Beach. Read more
Remembering a great leader on the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Northwest Europe, was unleashed on the Nazis on D-Day—June 6, 1944—on the orders of one man. Read more
The Gallic Wars: To Northern Gaul
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckThe gray skies of winter still shrouded the town of Vesontio on the Dubis River. To the south, when not obscured by mist and rain, rose the Jura Mountains, and beyond that the lofty peaks of the Alps and the nearest Roman Province, Gallia Cisalpina. Read more
Hamilton Fish III and the “Harlem Hell Fighters”
By Blaine TaylorIn July 1918, 30-year-old U.S. Army Captain Hamilton Fish, Jr., was in war-torn France with the 15th New York National Guard Regiment—also known as the (U.S.) Read more
