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Petraeus’ COIN Strategy
By Al HemingwayHard-charging and charismatic, U.S. Army General David Petraeus, together with a cadre of subordinates, attempted to rewrite the methods used by the military to wage future wars. Read more
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America’s First Prisoners of War in the Philippines
By Al HemingwayOn the morning of April 12, 1899, a U.S. Navy cutter from the USS Yorktown with a crew of 14 sailors and one officer cautiously made its way up the Baler River in the province of Aurora in the northeastern section of Luzon Island in the Philippines. Read more
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
By Al HemingwayOn the cold, dark morning of January 18, 1943, the familiar sound of German Army jackboots could be heard in the Jewish sector of Nazi-occupied Poland. Read more
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The Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
By Al HemingwayIt was supposed to be a walk in the sun, another routine mission in a remote Afghanistan village. Read more
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Hitler’s Pope
By Al HemingwayHistory has not been kind to the Roman Catholic Church during World War II, especially Pope Pius XII, who was the spiritual leader of the church during that period. Read more
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Tracking Nazi Murderers
By Al HemingwayOn the bone-chilling night of March 24, 1944, shadowy figures from nowhere out of the ground. They emerged from a makeshift tunnel that led from the German prison camp Stalag Luft III located approximately 100 miles southeast of Berlin to a wooded area outside the barbed wire. Read more
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Treasury Spy for Stalin
By Al HemingwayHarry Dexter White was an unassuming man. His metal-framed glasses, child-like appearance, and mild demeanor endeared him to people. Read more
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Father of Tuskegee Airmen
By Al HemingwayOn the hot, humid afternoon of May 22, 1934, a one-seater Buhl “Pup” aircraft slowly descended from the skies over a large field near the all-black Tuskegee Institute in eastern Alabama. Read more
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The Life of John Quincy Adams
By Al HemingwayJohn Quincy Adams, son of the second president of the United States, John Adams, sat across from his counterpart, British Admiral Lord James Gambier, at Ghent, Belgium, desperately attempting to hammer out a peace treaty that would end the War of 1812. Read more
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Debunking Pusan
By Al HemingwayThere is no doubt that the 1st Marine Provisional Brigade performed magnificently during the dark early days of the Korean conflict. Read more
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D-Day Deception
By Al HemingwayAn odd assortment of spies was recruited by British intelligence to fool the Nazis as to the exact time and location of the Normandy landings. Read more
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Killing Bin Laden
By Al HemingwayIn the early morning hours of May 2, 2011, Stealth Hawk helicopters maneuvered their way through the inky blackness toward their target, a walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, to capture or kill the person who masterminded the September 11 attacks against the United States, Osama bin Laden, code-named Geronimo. Read more
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Savagery at Nomonhan
By Al HemingwayOn a March day in 1939, a 40-man combat patrol from the Japanese Kwantung Army, led by Major Tsuji Masanobu of the operations staff, made its way to the base of Changkufeng Hill, a 450-foot-high mountain located on a ridge line near the Tyumen River in Manchuria. Read more
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Masters of Command
By Al HemingwayAmong Alexander the Great, Hannibal Barca and Julius Caesar, the question is often asked, “Who was the best leader?” Read more
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Blood in the Snow
By Al HemingwayBefore World War II, the peaceful, serene Belgian village of Malmedy, located in the eastern portion of the country in the province of Liege, was a resort. Read more
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Ike Commanded Respect As A Soldier And Statesman
By Al HemingwayIt has been said that when Dwight David Eisenhower was president of the United States from 1952-1961, he was not a hands-on chief executive. Read more
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We Got Him!
By Al HemingwayOn the evening of December 13, 2003, near a farmhouse on the outskirts of Tikrit, Iraq, Colonel James B. Read more
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Parallel Lives
By Al HemingwayIn the original 1960s Star Trek series, a Romulan commander says to James T. Kirk, captain of the starship Enterprise, “I regret that we meet in this way. Read more
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Lawrence of Arabia’s dramatic and innovative style of irregular warfare changed the Middle East forever.
By Al HemingwayNorth Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap once told a French diplomat that his “fighting gospel” was the Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Read more
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Tactics of the War in the Pacific
By Al HemingwayMany Americans view the conflict in the Pacific during World War II as primarily a series of land battles, mainly fought in a jungle environment between the American and Japanese armies. Read more
