German Chief of Staff Erich Ludendorff prolonged World War I with his revolutionary tactics—but […]
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Bloodshed in ‘Magic Valley’
In 1915, as Anglos displaced Hispanics on the U.S. side of the lower Rio Grande Valley, Mexican Sedicionistas exploited tensions to foment a race war
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Escape From Kabul in a Flock of Flying Elephants
Long before the famed Berlin Airlift, the Kabul airlift of 1928-29 established a precedent […]
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Willy Coppens: The Greatest Balloon Buster
Willy Coppens specialized in the most dangerous occupation of a World War I airman—flaming kite balloons deep behind enemy lines.
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The Road Not Taken
Although many designers have tried to build a practical flying car, the idea never […]
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CIA Man Thought He Had Winning Formula
Could Ed Lansdale have won the Vietnam War if U.S. leaders had just listened […]
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Pirates of the Revolution
Military outsourcing is making headlines, but it didn’t begin in Iraq. Private contractors played […]
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Swan Song for the House that Ruth Built
Yankee Stadium faces the wrecking ball after decades of glory that helped define the […]
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Hustlers on the Hustings
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter A. McDougall contends the main purpose of electoral politics is […]
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CWT Book Review: Forge of Empires
Forge of Empires: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871 by Michael […]