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Patton’s War for Sicily’s Beaches
By Kevin M. Hymel
“Only God and the Navy can do anything until we hit the shore,” Lt. Gen. George S. Read more
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Arnold’s Flawed Invasion of Quebec
By Eric NiderostOn November 9, 1775, a British resident of Quebec wrote a letter back home, a missive that he knew might not even reach England, because the Canadian fortress city would soon be under a state of siege. Read more
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For All The Wrong Reasons
By Edward G. MillerHürtgen Forest. Chilling rain, freezing fog, mud, impenetrable forest. Unremitting misery for GIs and Landsers alike. War correspondent Ernest Hemingway famously called it “Passchendaele with tree bursts.” Read more
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Was There Justice at Nuremberg?
By Blaine TaylorAfter Imperial Germany lost the Great War (1914-1918), the Treaty of Versailles punished her severely in terms of ruinous restitution payments to the victors, economic sanctions, the loss of territory and colonies, the forced abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the heavy restrictions imposed on her armed forces. Read more
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The Fight for Weiler
By Allyn VannoyIN a house in a small, nameless Belgian village, 26-year-old Sergeant Tom Myers, a newly assigned member of the 5th Armored Division, was upstairs changing his filthy uniform for a fresh one. Read more
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Faces of World War I
By David DeJongeNovember 11, 2008, marked the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I. Some 4,734,991 American soldiers served in the conflict, and 116,516 Americans lost their lives during the nation’s two-year participation in the war—a casualty rate far surpassing the deaths incurred in the combined wars of Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. Read more
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War on the West Coast
By Glenn BarnettThroughout World War II, the Imperial Japanese Navy dreamed of taking the war to the West Coast of the United States. Read more
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Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I
By William E. WelshVenetian military engineer Gabriel Tandini listened intently in the semi-darkness of the Knights Hospitaller counter-tunnels beneath the walls of Rhodes for sound of Turkish sappers trying to dig under the city’s walls. Read more
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Napoleon’s Costly Victory at Eylau
By Victor KamenirAfter decisively crushing Austrian and Russian armies in the 1805 campaign, French Emperor Napoleon became the undisputed master of Central Europe. Read more
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“A Hell of a Good Place to Die”
By Christopher MiskimonCorporal Michael Kurtz stood on the deck of an attack transport ship sitting off the Normandy coast. Gazing out over the ship’s railing in the pre-dawn hours, he could see the ship’s crew working the davits and ropes for the landing craft. Read more
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Union Lieutenant Alonzo Cushing
By William E. WelshOne of the smoothbore cannons in Captain Merritt B. Miller’s Third Company of the Washington Artillery deployed west of Emmitsburg Road just south of the town of Gettysburg fired a single round at 1:07 p.m. Read more
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The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Flew Deep into Enemy Territory
By John EmmertSecond Lieutenant John Bosko was flying his seventh mission on August 24, 1944. He was reasonably seasoned as far as bomber commanders went but was unaware of his target’s macabre reputation. Read more
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Matthew Ridgway’s Eighth Army at Seoul
By John WalkerAs Lt. Gen. Matthew Ridgway boarded a flight to Tokyo, Japan, on December 23, 1950, on his way to a meeting with General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, he was not fully aware of the depth of the crisis still unfolding on the frozen Korean peninsula, where American-led United Nations forces and their South Korean allies, who were seemingly on the verge of complete victory in North Korea, were now suddenly on the brink of collapse and perhaps outright defeat. Read more
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Crusader Calamity at Damascus
By William E. WelshThe hot sun beat down on the mud-brick and wooden buildings, the lush orchards, and the patchwork of pastoral fields around the oval-shaped, walled city of Damascus in southern Syria on the morning of July 24, 1148. Read more
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Wake Island: Japan’s First Setback
By Nathan N. PreferIt didn’t look like much—just a speck in the vast ocean. Most travelers spent only a night in the Pan American Hotel and never ventured far from the small adjoining airfield. Read more
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Reckoning at Horseshoe Bend
By Christopher G. MarquisIn the late summer of 1813, some 550 men, women, and children took refuge within a small wilderness outpost and waited for the worst. Read more
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The Russian Army has experienced extensive action—and challenges—in the last three decades.
By Christopher MiskimonThe Wagner Group is Russia’s main Private Military Contractor (PMC), a new term for the age-old concept of mercenary bands. Read more
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Max Hastings’ ‘The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962’
By Christopher MiskimonThe Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest humanity has come to nuclear war, despite the fact neither side wanted it to happen. Read more
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Michael Lynch’s ‘The Chinese Civil War 1945-49’
By Christopher Miskimon
The years between the end of World War II and the start of the Korean War were relatively quiet years for the United States, but across the Pacific Ocean one of the most significant conflicts in modern history took place, setting the stage for events right up to the present day. Read more
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Nic Fields’ ‘Carrhae 53BC: Rome’s Disaster in the Desert’
By Christopher MiskimonWhen the Roman Legions marched into the dry desert sands of northern Mesopotamia, the Parthian General Surena was ready for them. Read more
