Military Heritage March 2019

Italian War Criminal Rodolfo Graziani

By Blaine Taylor

The town of Affile in Italy’s Lazio region erected a mausoleum to Italian Army Marshal Rodolfo Graziani in August 2012. Read more

Military Heritage March 2019

Matthias Corvinus

By William E. Welsh

Encased in mail and armor, the soldiers of the Kingdom of Hungary’s Black Army stood rigidly at attention on a warm summer day in late August 1487 at Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria. Read more

Military Heritage March 2019

The Battle of Varna: “Let Us Fight with Bravery”

By Alexander Zakrzewski

During the mid-14th century, a new theater of the crusades erupted, this time on the doorstep of Christian Europe. Read more

Military Heritage March 2019

Review: F-86 vs. MiG-15

By Christopher Miskimon

The F-86 Sabre was the iconic American fighter of the Korean War era. The struggle was the first war that pitted jet fighter aircraft against each other. Read more

Military Heritage March 2019

Clawed by the Austrian Eagle at the Battle of Custoza

By Robert Heege

It was June 24, 1866, late in the afternoon of a northern Italian summer, and Venice, the jewel of the Adriatic, was bleeding again. Read more

Military Heritage March 2019

Roman Army Pluck at the Battle of Pydna

By Tim Miller

What began as a polite truce between armies that allowed each to draw water from the same river turned into the battle that would give Greece to Rome. Read more

Military Heritage March 2019

Confederate Submarine H. L. Hunley

By William F. Floyd, Jr.

At the start of the American Civil War in April 1861, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that he planned to blockade the Confederacy by stationing warships in waters off its shores. Read more

Military Heritage March 2019

Bloody Clash at the Battle of Ia Drang

By Christopher Miskimon

Specialist 4 George McDonald leaped out of a UH-1 helicopter on November 14, 1965, into a hellish firefight. Read more

Military Heritage March 2019

Grant’s Ordeal at the Battle of Shiloh

By Eric Niderost

It was raining heavily, a deluge of almost Biblical proportions that hammered down on the exhausted men of the Union’s Army of the Tennessee. Read more

Military Heritage March 2019

War Game Devs Run Into Unique Problems With Afghanistan ‘11

By Joseph Luster World of Warships: Legends

At the time of this writing we’re fresh into the new year, so naturally that means it’s time to turn our attention toward a new port of one of Wargaming’s biggest titles. Read more

Military Heritage March 2019

Weighing the Odds of Crusader Success

The christian crusaders that marched south into Ottoman Rumelia in 1444 bet heavily that the combined power of Poland, Hungary, and Wallachia would prove sufficient to break the iron grip the Ottoman Porte had on the southern Balkans. Read more