New York Times bestselling author and former Washington Post Moscow bureau chief Michael Dobbs reconstructs the harrowing inside story of Able Archer 83—a NATO military exercise in Germany that simulated nuclear war so realistically Soviet leaders feared a real preemptive strike and began counter-escalating. Read more
This investigative account explores the terrifying malady that has afflicted up to 1,500 American officials worldwide. Beginning in Cuba in 2016 and expanding across the globe from Moscow and Shanghai to Vienna, these directed-energy attacks caused severe brain injuries reminiscent of Cold War–era Soviet microwave harassment against the U.S. Read more
New York Times bestselling author Makos delivers a gripping account of the low-level B-24 bombing raid against Hitler’s oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania. Read more
Feldstein, a Carnegie Endowment senior fellow, offers a well-researched guide to 21st-century geopolitics and the evolving nature of combat. Read more
This sweeping narrative chronicles the meteoric rise of U.S. military aviation through the career of General Henry “Hap” Arnold—who learned to fly with the Wright brothers in 1911 before guiding the Army Air Forces to global supremacy. Read more
As bombs rain from the skies and your fellow soldiers both fight and fall to either side, for once it’s not up to you to take the fight back to the enemy. Read more
Real-time strategy game Company of Heroes has been celebrating quite the milestone lately, with a full two decades under its belt. Read more
Allied forces had been fighting their way up the Italian peninsula since landing at Salerno on September 9, 1943. Read more
Colonel John F. Hartranft surveyed the blue-jacketed ranks to his front with a mixture of frustration and humiliation, and some of the men returned the favor. Read more
Second Lieutenant William Capron first saw the attacking Messerschmitts as black dots descending rapidly to ambush his squadron of American fighter-bombers. Read more
It was a colorful spectacle few citizens in San Antonio, Texas, had ever expected to see: a large delegation of Comanches coming in to discuss terms of a possible peace treaty. Read more
In July 1939, Archibald Wavell was named General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of Middle East Command with the rank of full general in the British Army. Read more
The degree to which Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan set Northern soldiers on edge is seen by a story that appeared in southern newspapers in April 1862. Read more
The mid-afternoon stillness of the Pennsylvania wilderness was suddenly shattered by a crashing volley of musket fire. Read more
On a humid October day in 1968, U.S. Army Spc. 4th Class Kenneth “Mim” Crowell Jr. walked along a line of M113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) at Landing Zone (LZ) Bayonet in Chu Lai, South Vietnam. Read more
By mid-afternoon on September 17, 1862, the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia were locked in mortal combat on the rolling hills overlooking the sluggish waters of Antietam Creek in northwestern Maryland. Read more
Betio is the main island of the Tarawa Atoll in the Central Pacific nation of Kiribati, formerly known as the Gilbert Islands. Read more
Thick black smoke rose skyward from burning villages on the southern frontier of the Hungarian Kingdom in the spring of 1395. Read more
A man who was close to Adolf Hitler and hardly impartial later saidthat the Führer had “a mood of merriment” for a brief period that day. Read more
After September 17, 1631, half of Germany feared that God was a Protestant. The other half was sure of it. Read more
