Military miscalculations and not national dry rot may have been the real answer. The French high command simply could not recover from its mistakes in 1940 as it had a generation earlier.
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Stumbling in Sherman’s Path
Hardee’s field headquarters was about 40 miles from Beauregard’s, but Beauregard might as well have been on the moon
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Daily Quiz for November 15, 2018
The only fatal nuclear reactor accident in American history happened here
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Military History Book Review: Journey to a Revolution
Journey to a Revolution by Michael Korda, Harper Collins Publishers, New York, N.Y., 2006, […]
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Book Review: In Tall(er) Cotton
In Tall Cotton: The 200 Most Important Confederate Books for the Reader, Researcher and […]
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Book Review: War of 1812
When the War of 1812 broke out between Great Britain and the United States, […]
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Can a Popular Insurgency Be Defeated?
The answer is ‘yes,’ but not by military force alone. As the United States […]
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Troy’s Night of the Horse
The Trojans got tricked, but did the Greeks need a wooden horse? He is […]
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Stars and Stripes and Strife
Americans first embraced their national symbol during the Civil War. In subsequent wars, our […]
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James Smith: Indian Captive, Indian Fighter, Revolutionary Patriot
From within Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburgh), James Smith, an 18-year-old settler, saw a small […]