How the U.S. Navy reinvented itself— and its sailors—during a century of radical change […]
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Napoleon’s Desert Storm
Why Western armies win battles— but not wars—in the Muslim world. Crimson and azure […]
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Travels Against Charlie
American literary legend John Steinbeck’s last work was a risky assignment as a war […]
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Air Cav: How Soldiers in the Sky Reshaped the Battlefield
Adapting age-old principles of traditional cavalry to the new capabilities of the helicopter created […]
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Napoléon: What Made Him Great?
A talented combat leader, the diminutive emperor was also a shrewd judge of human nature.
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Char B1 bis
By May 1940 nearly 400 French Char B1 bis heavy tanks were ready to meet the Nazi invasion
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At the Leading Edge of Counterinsurgency
Mobile Advisory Teams were an unconventional approach to an unconventional war
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Meet the Freikorps
We traditionally think of soldiering as a temporary occupation. Wars begin, men join up, […]
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Miracle on the Vistula
Józef Piłsudski saved Poland by handing the Red Army one of its greatest defeats […]
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Women, Combat, and the Gender Line
A secret World War II study proved that female soldiers were ready to serve under fire. Other nations made warriors of their women. Why didn’t we?