Lightning Victory In The Persian Gulf

IN November 1990 the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq if it failed to withdraw from Kuwait by January 15, 1991. Read more

Hero of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team

Early on the morning of Sunday, October 15, 1944, a platoon of the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team’s 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate) waited on a hill for its first action in the rugged Vosges Mountains of eastern France. Read more

Captured on the High Seas

Itching for sea duty but forced to cool his heels with shore assignments, 40-year-old U.S. Navy Captain Daniel V. Read more

Night Fighting Corsairs

Just before it was drawn into World War II, the United States began developing a night fighter version of one of its most famous warplanes. Read more

Learning from David and Goliath: The True Origin of the Sling Weapon

More than 3,000 years ago, an army of Israelites led by King Saul confronted a force of Philistine invaders in the valley of Elah. Read more

Destruction Of The Colmar Pocket

By Christopher Miskimon

On January 25, 1945, every officer in Company B of the 15th Infantry Regiment of the American 3rd Infantry Division became a casualty in the fight for the “Colmar Pocket” except Lieutenant Audie Murphy. Read more

Triumph of Spirit

On April 20, 1859, Emperor Franz Josef paid a respectful visit to Prince Klemens Wensel von Metternich’s place at Rennweg in Vienna. Read more

The Fairey Swordfish Torpedo Bomber

Radar, atomic bombs, jet engines and early cruise missiles were among the numerous technological advances of World War II. Read more

Army Combat Engineer Paul Ray Smith

T he lead elements of the First Brigade of the U.S. Third Infantry Division became heavily engaged against Iraqi forces at the Saddam International Airport on the southwest outskirts of Baghdad on April 3, 2003, but by the end of the day they had secured it. Read more

Life In a Unique Nazi POW Camp

On July 28, 2018, at the Doubletree Hilton Hotel near Dulles Airport, outside Washington, D.C., Mariusz Winiecki, a 42-year-old Polish professor, told an audience of Americans about his experiences growing up in the small town of Szubin, 150 miles southeast of Warsaw. Read more

English Man-at-Arms in the Wars of the Roses

The Wars of the Roses (1455-1487) encompassed three civil wars that were fought between two rival branches, York and Lancaster, of the House of Plantagenet, for control of the English throne. Read more

The Allies’ Armored Workhorse

Early on the gray, chilly afternoon of Tuesday, December 26, 1944, a column of mud-stained Sherman medium tanks, armored cars, and half-tracks of the U.S. Read more

Polish Army’s Heroic Stand at Falaise

Poland does not always get the recognition it deserves for helping to defeat Nazi Germany and end the war in Europe. Read more

Lucky All The Way!

During World War II, many of England’s Royal Air Force (RAF) Class A airfields were made available to the U.S. Read more

Charles The Hammer At Tours

In the late spring of ad 732, an 80,000-man-strong Muslim army spilled northward through gaps in the western Pyrenees onto the verdant, gently rolling landscape of Gascony. Read more

Cloak and Dagger Mounties

In the early morning of Monday, November 9, 1942, the german U-boat U-518 surfaced off the bleak Quebec coast. Read more

Nuremburg Prosecutor

On March 23, 1991, at a reunion of the postwar Nuremberg International Military Tribunal staffers in Washington, I had occasion to meet the former American prosecutor, Brigadier General Telford Taylor. Read more

Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, the Duke of Alva

The Eighty Years’ War between Spain and the Netherlands, which lasted from 1568 to 1648, developed not only from economic difficulties but also from religious tensions that eventually resulted in several Dutch riots in 1566. Read more

The Battle of Britain: WWII’s Most Consequential Campaign?

Two decades after the carnage of the Great War, the world was again plunged into the cauldron of armed conflict. Read more

Blood In The Soil

In 1939 the one thing that Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin could agree on was the partition of Poland. Read more