Various nations explored ways to deploy automatic rifles before the cosmopolitan fire team found […]
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VIDEO: Remembering the USS Indianapolis on the Anniversary of its Sinking
The USS Indianapolis was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on November 15, 1932. The ship served […]
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In the Dark and Out of Luck
Modern American intelligence gathering, not yet a science, can still leave military forces lost […]
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Can the Counters Be Counted On?
Despite biased historians and few primary sources, the numbers in the ancients’ battle tales […]
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Paul Allen Pinpoints Wreck of the USS Indianapolis
A search team led by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen has discovered the storied wreck of the 610-foot heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis
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Black Troops Prove Their Valor at the Battle of New Market Heights
At New Market Heights, a Union general orders an attack that makes heroes and […]
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The Battle for Little York, 1813
The first American amphibious operation gave a young general his chance at military fame. […]
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Heraclius Brings Persia to Its Knees
One general preserved the Eastern Roman Empire for seven more centuries, crushing the Sassanids […]
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Death of the Wehrmacht
In 1942, the German Army, turning one last time to its traditional Prussian tactics of maneuver, met its end.
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Audiobook Review| The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
Elaine Weiss chronicles the steps that brought the 19th Amendment to the doorstop of enactment and suffragists’ heroics in achieving ratification.