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First Manassas: The Battle of Bull Run
By Earl EchelberryOn March 4, 1861, with war clouds threatening the land, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated the 16th president of the United States. Read more
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SEALs: the Birth of the Navy’s ‘Special Warfare’ Force
By Bud HylandToday’s Navy SEALs (for Sea, Air, and Land special warfare experts) have a history shrouded in secrecy. Commissioned in 1962, they are the most elite shore-area Special Forces in the world, concentrating on very select and often-clandestine intelligence gathering and precision strike missions. Read more
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Mogami: Japan’s Luckless Cruiser
By David H. LippmanShe was the lead ship of her class, built under the 1930 London Naval Treaty, which imposed limits on cruiser, destroyer, and submarine tonnage for the United States, Great Britain, and Japan. Read more
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Insight: Bombing the Abbey
By Duane SchultzFor the thousands of Allied soldiers who had fought and suffered for so long in the shadow of the abbey of Monte Cassino, Tuesday morning, February 15, 1944, was a time of joy and celebration. Read more
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Hannibal and the Second Punic War
By Jonas L. Goldstein, LCDR, USN (Ret.)The Carthaginian hero Hannibal Barca has long been considered to have possessed one of history’s greatest military minds. Read more
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Gustavus Adolphus: Lion of the North
By Isaac BlatterOddly, the fall of the brilliant King Gustavus Adolphus on the field of battle marked both the beginning of Sweden’s rise to power and the end of one of the most aggressive ages of military reform. Read more
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A Time of Unreasoning Hatred
By Eric NiderostOn February 28, 1942, Governor Ralph Lawrence Carr of Colorado received a telegram from the White House. At that moment he was in his office, surrounded by staff, but routine business had to be put on hold while Carr quickly scanned the missive that came directly from the president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt. Read more
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The Vermehren Betrayal
By Tim MillerAfter the long journey from Germany to Istanbul, their escape to North Africa and finally to England, the two defectors ended up in an apartment in South Kensington, one of the more wealthy neighborhoods of London. Read more
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The Battle of Bannockburn: Edward II vs Robert the Bruce
By Terry GoreRobert the Bruce, self-proclaimed King of the Scots, grasped his axe as the heavily armored English nobleman, a member of the vanguard of the 20,000-strong English army, bore down upon him, lance leveled and clods of earth arching from his charger’s hoofs. Read more
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Civil War Artillery
By John D. GreshamFor much of its history, artillery has been a weapon of mass destruction and attrition, a force designed to cause casualties, destroy fortifications, and wear an enemy down with its noise, explosions, and shrapnel. Read more
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Cape Matapan Triumph
By David H. LippmanIt was called “rodding,” and it was a complex manual procedure used by British cryptographers at Hut Eight in the Government Code and Cipher School at Bletchley Park to decipher Italian Naval Enigma coded messages. Read more
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Consolidated B-24 Liberator: The Loyal “Lumbering Lib”
By Michael D. HullA host of famous fighters and bombers in the Allied arsenal spearheaded the aerial offensives that helped secure victory against the Axis powers in World War II. Read more
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The Modoc War of 1872
By Kurt R. NelsonMost Indian battles were small affairs, often company-sized engagements. Many were fought between equally numbered forces, or if disproportional, the U.S. Read more
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The Sam Browne Belt Assembly
By Robert H. WhiterAnd here we have the Sam Browne belt assembly,” explained the sergeant who was showing us around the Police Academy. Read more
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Easy Company Mortarman in Bastogne
By Kevin HymelWhen word reached 21-year-old Private Bradford “Brad” Freeman in Mourmelon-le-Grand, France, that the entire 101st Airborne Division was being put on 24-hour alert for movement to the front, he was neither surprised nor shocked. Read more
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Hero with a Horn
By Michael D. HullOne of the best known and most effective champions of the Allied cause in World War II was a dour, slightly built Iowa native wearing rimless glasses who never fired a shot in anger and collected no ribbons for gallantry. Read more
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The Saga of Piyamaradu
By Steven WeingartnerWestern Anatolia in the 13th century bc was the main arena for a protracted trial of strength between two vital and aggressive empires, Hatti and Ahhiyawa. Read more
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General Garnet Wolseley & The First War Correspondents
By Harold E. Raugh, Jr.War correspondents are relatively new to history. The Crimean War (1854-1856), pitting Great Britain, France, Turkey, and Sardinia against Russia, was the first conflict in which an organized effort was made for civilian correspondents reporting news directly to the civilian population of the home country. Read more
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How The RAF’s Eagle Squadrons Joined the Eighth Air Force
By David Alan Johnson“We went to London in ones and twos during our precious 24-hour passes to transfer and pick up our U.S. Read more
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What Made the B-25 Mitchell Bomber so Legendary
By Michael D. HullLittle more than four months after the disastrous attack on Pearl Harbor, America went on the offensive against Japan with one of the boldest and best remembered bomber raids of World War II. Read more
