Choose the correct plan for an American gun crew facing Japanese invaders. You are […]
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1943: World War II’s Forgotten Year of Victory
Unfairly overlooked by historians, this crucial year of global conflict turned the tide of […]
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Mission Ploesti: Anatomy of a Disaster
Brave U.S. airmen persevered in the face of horrendously daunting circumstances.
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America’s Daring Frigate Captains
In the War of 1812, Britain’s powerful Royal Navy met its match in a […]
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Gourmet Grunts, 1968-70
GIs used ingenuity – and initiative – to turn field rations into field “cuisine” […]
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Germany’s Secret Army, 1918-20
Post-World War I “Freikorps” paramilitary units won control of Germany’s streets amid revolutionary chaos. […]
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MacArthur’s Defense of the Philippines, 1941-42
Sound decisions helped create a roadblock to Japan’s Pacific blitzkrieg. The Japanese offensive that […]
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Greek Hoplites, 700-300 B.C.
These citizen-soldiers of ancient Greece were nearly unstoppable. Greek hoplites were infantry warriors who […]
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Crisis Watch-Command on the Move
Drawing disastrous lessons from our last wars. Recently, a friend still on active duty […]
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Daily Quiz for July 24, 2017
U.S. Attorney General Charles Bonaparte who started the FBI on July 26, 1908 was this relation to the legendary Napoleon Bonaparte.