Military History
The Roman Empire: Conquest Above All Else
by Brooke C. Stoddard
“Augustus found Rome brick and left it marble” is an expression pegged to the first of the Roman emperors. Read more
Military History
Military History
Principles of Fabian Strategy
“I am sick of Fabian systems in all quarters,” said American patriot John Adams of General George Washington’s strategy against superior British forces during the American Revolution. Read more
Military History
Submarine Chaser 699 (SC-699)
By Brad HallThe crew of Submarine Chaser 699 (SC-699) watched with dread as the Japanese fighter aircraft slammed into the ocean, cartwheeled off the ocean’s surface, and spun toward its deck. Read more
Military History
Heyde Toy Soldiers
By Steve SommersAbout 30 years ago, my wife and I were walking around a big antique toy market on a county fair site. Read more
Military History
A ghost of the Battle of Britain rises from the English Channel.
The slender fuselage of the Dornier Do-17 engendered the German bomber’s distinctive nickname of the “flying pencil.” In the summer of 1940, the Do-17 was an integral component of the Luftwaffe air armada that struck British military installations and cities in the vain effort to bring the island nation to its knees. Read more
Military History
The Song of the Nibelungs
When the Huns swept through the plains of northern Europe in spring 451 on their way to what would become one of the decisive battles of Late Antiquity, the Frankish peoples could do little to resist the swarming bands of horsemen who showed no mercy to anyone in their path. Read more
Military History
Chattanooga’s 150th Anniversary of War
By Roy Morris Jr.Living in Chattanooga is a little like living inside a museum. Civil War reminders are all around us. Read more
Military History
The Rivalry of Henry and Frederick
Handsome, urbane, and adventurous, Prince Henry of Prussia in many ways was the man his older brother, Frederick the Great, always wanted to be. Read more
Military History
Times change for Japan and Korea, but bitter memories linger.
For centuries the Japanese and Korean peoples have remained wary of one another, warring and occupying, threatening and maintaining an uneasy peace at various times. Read more
Military History
The Military Fez
By Peter SuciuThanks to movies and tV, the fez is usually associated with the Middle East, notably Turkey. It has also become a form of ceremonial headgear for lodges and fraternal organizations in the United States. Read more
Military History
How Otto von Bismarck Started The Franco-Prussian War
By Blaine TaylorIn May 1867, French ruler Napoleon III hosted a gala Great Universal Exposition that proved to be the high-water mark of his ornate but tissue-thin Second Empire. Read more
Military History
Shakespeare was not overly concerned about facts…
One of history’s—or at least literature’s— greatest villains is King Richard III, the second and last English monarch to wear the white rose of York. Read more
Military History
French meddling in Mexico almost led to a post-Civil War confrontation between France and the United States.
French immigrant Alfred Duffie may have fought for the Union during the Civil War, but the meddlesome presence of thousands of other French troops in Mexico almost led to a post-Civil War confrontation between the nation of his birth and the nation of his choice. Read more
Military History
Forbes vs. Wilde
The peripatetic Archibald Forbes had made his reputation as a war correspondent during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, when he bet rightly on the Prussians to win the war and attached himself accordingly to King Wilhelm I’s field headquarters. Read more
Military History
The 1541 Algiers Expedition
By Bruce Ware AllenIn the late summer 1541, 40 warships appeared off the shores of Sardinia, part of a grand armada gathered by Charles the V of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor. Read more
Military History
Rudyard Kipling’s enthusiastic support for World War I cost him his 18-year-old son, John, who died at the Battle of Loos in 1915, living up to his father’s vision.
The doomed young English poet Wilfred Owen achieved posthumous fame for his heartbreaking poems about common soldiers in World War I, but another British writer has seen his reputation sink precipitously as a result of his quite different take on the war. Read more
Military History
A Moment to Celebrate
As I write this editorial, the news is just coming through about the demise of the world’s arch-terrorist, Osama bin Laden. Read more
Military History
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin’s ‘Last Men Out’
By Al HemingwayOn April 30, 1975, the American-backed government in Saigon, South Vietnam, fell to the Communists. For those who served in what was then our nation’s longest war, it was a time of sadness, bitterness, and anger. Read more
Military History
Robert E. Lee Wanted to Avoid Repeating the Mistakes of His Father
Robert E. Lee never knew his father, Revolutionary War hero “Light Horse Harry” Lee. True, he saw him a few times, on the infrequent occasions of the elder Lee’s visits to his family at their gloomy mansion, Stratford, in Westmoreland County, Virginia But Light Horse Harry, living up to his nickname, was never anywhere for very long—certainly not in the confining bosom of his family. Read more
Military History
Confederate John C. Pemberton was not a traitor, as some alleged.
One of the unlikeliest—and unluckiest—Confederate leaders was Pennsylvania-born general John C. Pemberton, who “married South,” as the saying went, only to go down in infamy as the man who surrendered Vicksburg to Ulysses S. Read more
