Enough Is Enough!

What drives individuals, or more specifically, units or large parts thereof, to commit acts of mass disobedience? Read more

Imperial Disaster

Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Empire appeared unstoppable. By the summer of 1942, Japan had conquered vast territories across the Pacific and Southeast Asia, shattered Allied naval power, and established a defensive perimeter that seemed nearly impregnable. Read more

Joe ‘Peppy’ Sciarra: A Soldier’s Story

The history of the epic battle for Luzon Island in the Philippines has been told before. This is one soldier’s story of that desperate fight. Read more

World of Tanks: HEAT

If World of Tanks isn’t action-packed enough for you, Wargaming now has World of Tanks: HEAT. It’s a standalone game with a more arcadey, hero-based feel. Read more

Total Victory: World Conflict 1939-1945

Developer Kraken Studios showed their skills at World War II simulation with WarPlan in 2019, and and are following it up with Total Victory: World Conflict 1939-1945 continuing the grand strategy tradition in style, taking inspiration from games like World in Flames and ETO, among others, to bring a detailed theater of war to life. Read more

Pook’s Turtles: The Union’s City-Class Ironclads

With the opening of hostilities between the North and South, General Winfield Scott and President Lincoln devised the “Anaconda Plan.” Read more

Longstreet’s Gettysburg Aftermath

Throughout history, many generals have paid a heavy price for being wrong. But few generals have ever paid a heavier price than Longstreet for being right. Read more

Veterans Remember the Disaster at Dunkirk

BACKSTORY: After Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Britain and France declared war on Hitler’s regime. Read more

Long Odds At the Battle of Jonesborough

At the Battle of Jonsborough, Union General William T. Sherman hoped to destroy the Army of Tennessee and seize Atlanta, Georgia.  Read more

Solferino: Birth of a Nation

­Long columns of blue-clad French troops marched east though the sun-baked plains of northern Italy in late June 1859. Read more

The Power of Cloth

The evolution of the Nazi-era military wardrobe followed from a long history of European uniforms in general and Imperial German uniforms in particular. Read more

Why Are There So Few Civil War Films?

World War II, America’s last “good war,” has always been a fruitful source for homegrown moviemakers. Beginning with the wartime movies that shamelessly if sincerely promoted American efforts to rally against the fascist evils of Germany, Italy, and Japan, the silver screen gave audiences stirring depictions of brave GIs risking and sacrificing their lives for the greater good. Read more

Peach Orchard Bloodbath: Day 2 of the Battle of Gettysburg

By Mike Phifer

On July 2, the day of the Battle of Gettysburg’s Peach Orchard conflict, Army of the Potomac commander Maj. Read more

Soviet Invasion of Manchuria: Catching Japan Unawares

At 11:02 am on August 9, 1945, an American warplane dropped an atomic device nicknamed “Fat Man” onto the city of Nagasaki, Japan. Read more

Defending the Pass at the Battle of Thermopylae

What nation of Asia, did not Xerxes lead against Hellas? —Herodotus

On the Doricus, the vast Thracian plain and beach on the Aegean coast, rose a stronghold. Read more

The Setting Sun

Once again, the Japanese regarded an upcoming naval engagement as the “decisive battle,” but it had been two years since her aircraft carriers and battleships had emerged from their Inland Sea lairs to menace the United States Navy. Read more

“The Other Napoleon Bonaparte” at the Battle of Waterloo

On April 23, 1809, Prince Jerome Bonaparte, king of Westphalia, a German satellite state given to him by his elder brother Emperor Napoleon I, sat astride a large white horse at the Holland Gate leading into the capital city of Cassel. Read more

In the Shadow of Sunrise: The Secret Surrender of Italy

On the morning of Friday, April 13, 1945, three men gathered at a table in L’Espadon of the Ritz Paris over a breakfast of coffee and croissants. Read more

Nicholas Reynolds and Katie Sanders’ ‘Ortiz’s War’

Few figures in the annals of modern irregular warfare possess a biography as cinematic, daring, and intrinsically heroic as U.S. Read more

Scott Greenberger’s ‘The Forsaken Founder’

This sweeping biography restores Gouverneur Morris to his rightful place in the top tier of America’s Founding Fathers. Read more