In 1964–65 soldier for hire Mike Hoare and a handful of mercenaries defeated a horde of drug-addled communist Simba rebels—and Che Guevara—to reclaim the Congo
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Daily Quiz for February 1, 2019
63The M-4 Sherman Tank received this grim nickname because of its tendency to catch fire when hit.
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Daily Quiz for January 31, 2019
The Greek playwright Aeschylus mentions this battle in his tombstone inscription.
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Game Review: Red Dead Redemption 2
This multiplatform prequel to the 2010 Spaghetti Western lives up to the violence and drama of its big-screen cousin
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Daily Quiz for January 30, 2019
This was the name given by UN pilots to the northwestern portion of North Korea near the Chinese border during the Korean War.
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Retracing the steps of freedom with Liberation Route Europe
On September 17, 1944, Sergeant Jacob H. Wingard jumped out the door of a […]
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Trailside: Freedom’s Harbor
The Civil War-era contributions of African Americans from Maryland’s coastline helped shape a new nation
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Grounds for War
A photojournalist’s quest to capture the world’s most historic battlefields. After a distinguished and […]
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Vietnam War Officer’s Ideas Changed Postwar Army
Former U.S. Army armor officer Mike Guardia has made the most of his second […]
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North Vietnam’s AT-3 Sagger Anti-Tank Missiles
In the early morning of April 23, 1972, a North Vietnamese anti-tank missile company […]