Military History
Young Churchill in Battle
By Christopher MiskimonYoung Winston Churchill expected to enter battle on September 1, 1898, but instead he watched as British gunboats bombarded Dervish forts. Read more
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The Great War’s Eastern Front
By Chris MiskimonRussia was imploding in October 1917. The war combined with the numerous internal stresses of the nation, culminating in a civil war and Russia’s withdrawal from the greater war. Read more
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Heavy infantry comes of age in the Swiss Confederacy.
The ambush of Duke King Leopold I’s army by Swiss foot soldiers on the mountain road at Morgarten in 1315 ushered in a roughly 200-year period where the hard-hitting Swiss maintained a reputation as elite foot soldiers. Read more
Military History
The AK-47 vs. the M16 Rifle During the Vietnam War
By Michael HaskewDuring the Vietnam War, two of the most famous firearms of modern times emerged as icons of the latter half of the turbulent 20th century. Read more
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Holly Springs was Van Dorn’s ticket to fame.
The horsemen charged into the town from the northeast guns blazing and screaming the hair-raising Rebel yell. Yankees wearing their sleepwear struggled to get out of their tents in the dawn attack and then ran for their lives. Read more
Military History
Douglas MacArthur’s Plan to Win The Korean War
By Blaine TaylorIn his 1964 book Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Gold Medal Books, Greenwich, Conn.), Bob Considine writes, “MacArthur’s final plan for winning the Korean War was outlined to this reporter in the course of an interview in 1954 on his 74th birthday. Read more
Military History
Alexander the Great in India
By Martin LeavittIt was raining, raining with a force and intensity few had ever experienced. The Macedonian army was marching upstream near the northern banks of the Hydaspes River in India (now Pakistan), trying to reach a ford under the cloak of darkness. Read more
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The Claymore vs. the M14 mine in Vietnam
By Michael HaskewDuring the Vietnam War, the land mine was responsible for large numbers of casualties among both military and civilian personnel. Read more
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Stirring Accounts of the Albigensian Crusade
The three contemporary narrative accounts of the 13th-century Albigensian Crusade are gripping, chilling, and enlightening. They offer rich insight into the period when the Languedoc region of modern-day southwestern France was tied more closely to the Kingdom of Aragon than the fledgling Kingdom of France. Read more
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The Quinquereme in the Carthaginian & Roman Navy
by Marc G. De SantisThe third century BC saw fierce naval competition arise all across the Mediterranean. In the west, the Romans and Carthaginians struggled for control of the sea. Read more
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Norse Viking Warriors vs. Anglo-Saxon Thegns
By Eric NiderostIt can indeed be rather difficult to understand the differences between Anglo-Saxon thegns and the Norse Viking warriors. Read more
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War of the Roses: The Battle of Bosworth Field
by William E. WelshBy the start of the War of the Roses, the nature of armed conflict had changed noticeably since the Hundred Years’ War, which ended with the expulsion of England from France in 1453. Read more
Military History
Forest of Horrors
The woods were close-planted fir trees, and the shell-bursts tore and smashed them, and the splinters from the tree bursts were like javelins in the half-light of the forest,” wrote war correspondent Ernest Hemingway of the experience of Lt. Read more
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The F-4 Phantom vs. the MiG-21: Which Was Better?
By Michael HaskewDuring the protracted air war in the skies over Vietnam, two fighter interceptor and air superiority planes emerged as the most prominent aircraft of their type. Read more
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The Controversial Harry “The Breaker” Morant
By Roy Morris Jr.It is somehow fitting that the Boer War spanned the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, since the conflict itself represented both the last old-fashioned war and the first modern one. Read more
Military History
The Goth Sack of Rome: Barbarians at the Gate in 410 AD
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckThe tattered banners of Hercules fluttered in the howling wind along the Frigidus River in western Italy, hard athwart the Adriatic Sea, on the afternoon of September 6, 394 ad. Read more
Military History
Twilight of the Teutonic Order
In one of those ironies with which history abounds Polish Duke Conrad of Mazovia in 1226 invited the German Roman Catholic military order known as the Teutonic Knights to assist him in subjugating the unruly, pagan Prussians who were raiding his lands. Read more
Military History
“Tripoli Will Be Italian”: Italy’s Colonial Conquests in Libya
By Raymond E. BellThe Italian sailors sang “Tripoli Will Be Italian” at the rumble of the cannon as ships of the Italian naval squadron left port and sailed south to the shores of North Africa in late September 1911. Read more
Military History
The Rafael Trujillo Assassination: Why Did the CIA Follow Through?
By Peter KrossFrom 1959 to 1961, the United States turned its focus to two of the most charismatic, ruthless, and despotic rulers in the Caribbean region, Fidel Castro of Cuba and Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. Read more
Military History
Frederick The Great’s First Defeat
By Arnold BlumbergFrederick the Great’s prescription for warfare was simple. The Prussian monarch wanted “short and lively wars” that relied on swift, powerful, and decisive military operations. Read more
