The warrior-king was a loyal son, a fearsome fighter, and master tactician, a ruthless tyrant, a national-hero—and in the end largely the stuff of myth.
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George Meade: Warrior and Engineer
Two Roads Taken: George Meade found fame as Both a Warrior and an Engineer. “What a waste of time and energy,” George Meade wrote to his wife on December 18, 1845, as he approached his 30th birthday. Describing his feelings about his 10 years in the U.S. Army since graduating from West Point, Meade was convinced he was a failure and added, “I tremble sometimes when I think of what I might have been, and remember what I am, when I reflect on what I might have accomplished.”
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Taming Chechnya
What seemed a simple intervention to the Russian Army in 1994 quickly turned into […]
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Skyrocketing Through Mach 2
How Scott Crossfield scored aviation’s double-sonic prize. Sixty years ago, high above California’s Antelope […]
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Not-So-Secret Weapon: The Norden Bombsight
Bombardiers took an oath to guard the Norden bombsight with their lives to ensure […]
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The Man Behind Messerschmitt’s Deadly Airplanes
Over nearly half a century, Willy Messerschmitt designed a remarkable array of aircraft. The […]
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Flying at an Oblique Angle: The NASA AD-1
NASA’s AD-1 proved that oblique-wing aircraft are practical, despite their odd appearance. In a […]
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Public Relations Battle in 1775
After Lexington and Concord, both sides hurried to spin the story by land and sea
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American Schemers: “Pappy” O’Daniel
The first celebrity politician was a Texas radio showman who talked his way into the U.S. Senate
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Why the P-38 Flunked Europe
Celebrated as one of the Pacific War’s best fighters, Lockheed’s Lightning earned a less-than enviable reputation in European air combat.