John P. Langellier’s ‘More Work than Glory’
By Christopher MiskimonSoon after the Civil War, the United States Congress authorized the formation of six regiments of African-American troops, soon reduced to four. Read more
Stephen Quick’s ‘The Dhofar War’
By Christopher MiskimonFrom 1965 to 1975, the Sultanate of Oman fought a counterinsurgency campaign against a communist backed revolt in Dhofar Province, a remote and barren area. Read more
The Wars of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner
By Christopher MiskimonThe period of conflict in the second half of the 15th Century, known generally as the Wars of the Roses, is one of the more chaotic and dramatic times in British history. Read more
Nils Elmark’s ‘Fighting for the French Foreign Legion’
By Christopher MiskimonOn August 24, 1914, 44 Americans joined the French Foreign Legion to fight the new war against Germany. Read more
Cameron Colby’s ‘Jamestown 1622’
By Christopher MiskimonEnglish settlers arrived in North America and established the Jamestown colony in 1607. They hoped for fortune growing tobacco and maintained difficult relations with the Powhatan Confederacy. Read more
Caught in the Chinese Conflict
By Eric NiderostOn September 2, 1945, Japanese representatives boarded the battleship USS Missouri, riding at anchor in Tokyo Bay, to sign an instrument of unconditional surrender. Read more
Profiles: ROTC Success
By Bruce PettyMore than 16 million Americans served in the U.S. military during World War II, but as fluid as the situation was in the Pacific, and considering the priority given to the European Theater, it is difficult to obtain an accurate count of how many served in the Pacific at any one time during World War II. Read more
Eric Setzekorn’s ‘Arming East Asia’
By Christopher MiskimonAfter China fell to Communist rule in 1949, it became a new threat to the West in the fledgling Cold War. Read more
The Jablunkov Incident
By Peter ZablockiAt around 9:30 p.m. on August 25, 1939, a German Opel staff car burst into the courtyard of the temporary headquarters of the Abwehr (German Military Intelligence) near the Slovakian and Polish border. Read more
Private SNAFU
By Peter ZablockiBumbling Army Private Snafu was the title character of a series of 26 short cartoons sanctioned by the U.S. Read more
The Fate of the USS Sculpin
By Richard CampTwo days after receiving intelligence on the route of an important enemy convoy, the USS Sculpin (Sargo-class submarine SS-191) made radar contact with the Japanese ships near the Caroline Islands in the Western Pacific Ocean. Read more
Draper Kauffman’s Underwater Demolition Team
By Patrick J. ChaissonLieutenant Commander Draper Kauffman was crawling across a moonlit beach on enemy-held Tinian Island when he first noticed the sound of voices. Read more
First Manassas: The Battle of Bull Run
By Earl EchelberryOn March 4, 1861, with war clouds threatening the land, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated the 16th president of the United States. Read more
SEALs: the Birth of the Navy’s ‘Special Warfare’ Force
By Bud HylandToday’s Navy SEALs (for Sea, Air, and Land special warfare experts) have a history shrouded in secrecy. Commissioned in 1962, they are the most elite shore-area Special Forces in the world, concentrating on very select and often-clandestine intelligence gathering and precision strike missions. Read more
Mogami: Japan’s Luckless Cruiser
By David H. LippmanShe was the lead ship of her class, built under the 1930 London Naval Treaty, which imposed limits on cruiser, destroyer, and submarine tonnage for the United States, Great Britain, and Japan. Read more
Insight: Bombing the Abbey
By Duane SchultzFor the thousands of Allied soldiers who had fought and suffered for so long in the shadow of the abbey of Monte Cassino, Tuesday morning, February 15, 1944, was a time of joy and celebration. Read more
Hannibal and the Second Punic War
By Jonas L. Goldstein, LCDR, USN (Ret.)The Carthaginian hero Hannibal Barca has long been considered to have possessed one of history’s greatest military minds. Read more
Gustavus Adolphus: Lion of the North
By Isaac BlatterOddly, the fall of the brilliant King Gustavus Adolphus on the field of battle marked both the beginning of Sweden’s rise to power and the end of one of the most aggressive ages of military reform. Read more
A Time of Unreasoning Hatred
By Eric NiderostOn February 28, 1942, Governor Ralph Lawrence Carr of Colorado received a telegram from the White House. At that moment he was in his office, surrounded by staff, but routine business had to be put on hold while Carr quickly scanned the missive that came directly from the president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt. Read more
The Vermehren Betrayal
By Tim MillerAfter the long journey from Germany to Istanbul, their escape to North Africa and finally to England, the two defectors ended up in an apartment in South Kensington, one of the more wealthy neighborhoods of London. Read more
