John J. Pershing was inflexible in his insistence on an independent American army on the Western Front. He got his way–but was the cost worth it?
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Getting Away With Murder
Lost in the political scheming and gamesmanship that characterized the Union’s war in the […]
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Dead on Arrival
While Hitler concluded that the airborne invasion of Crete was far too costly, it […]
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What We Think About When We Think About Waterloo
A British military historian views the epic battle through the prisms of time and […]
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1914: Marne in the Balance
France very nearly failed to repulse Germany’s mammoth initial invasion. But it did, leading […]
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The Battle of Tenaru River
A marine recalls the first major battle on Guadalcanal. On August 7, 1942, Pfc. […]
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Arms and Men: Simple but Deadly
In the century before guns, the longbow brought a lethal efficiency to medieval warfare […]
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Snoring VC and the Luckiest Marines
In the wake of the Tet Offensive, a cobbled together platoon of Marines thrown […]
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‘Life has been good so far’
The perfect storm brewing over Camp Bunard was about to change Robert Pryor’s life […]
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Vietnam: The Last Great Picture War
The Vietnam War was photographed like no war before it or since, and its […]