Captain, Women’s Army Corps, October 1968 – December 1970 I grew up in Stoyswood […]
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Intel- Vietnam Magazine February 2014
Crowds Mourn General Giap Tens of thousands of Vietnamese from all provinces of the […]
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Laws of War | Massing for La République
Europe’s first military conscription law, adopted in the wake of the French Revolution
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Vasco da Gama’s Breakout Voyage
Portuguese explorers reached India in the 15th century, establishing a legacy of misunderstanding, suspicion, hostility—and violence
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Can You Hear Me Now?
Before telegraph, telephone, and radio, how did the ancients exert battlefield command and control?
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Postwar Agony in Greece
After German occupation, civil wars among communists, collaborators, monarchists, rebels, ex-partisans, and death squads all but destroyed Greece
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FILM RECON: “Five Came Back” review
SNAPSHOT: Filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau’s excellent Netflix documentary, Five Came Back, is adapted from Mark […]
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Blind Bear at Bay: The Russians at Tannenberg
Obligated by treaties to declare war in August 1914, Russia found that its vast army was no match for German intelligence, reconnaissance, and railways
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Daily Quiz for March 26, 2017
Myra Bennett of Daniel’s Harbour, Newfoundland was awarded several medals by the British government for her work as this.
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Daily Quiz for March 25, 2017
The first successful transatlantic cable was placed between Heart’s Content, Newfoundland and Labrador and this country in 1866.