Military Technology
Mark Grimsley |
Published: September 30, 2010 at 10:11 am
If the Allies never cracked the Triton code, the Battle of the Atlantic would have been hard won.
Stephen Budiansky |
Published: September 30, 2010 at 10:09 am
The breakthrough that launched a thousand rockets.
Max Gadney |
Published: September 30, 2010 at 10:08 am
The world's first combat jet fighter was deadly, but too little, too late for Germany.
Jon Guttman |
Published: August 13, 2010 at 1:46 pm
During the Civil War, City-Class gunboats enabled the Union to spear the very heart of the South.
Max Gadney |
Published: July 30, 2010 at 9:30 am
The iconic pineapple grenade proved invaluable as Americans marched through urban occupied Europe.
Stephen Budiansky |
Published: July 30, 2010 at 9:28 am
The Battle of the Atlantic turned when Allied scientists joined the hunt.
Kay Grant |
Published: June 01, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Evidence of the Manhattan Project abounds in this Tennessee town.
Max Gadney |
Published: June 01, 2010 at 1:13 pm
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Richard R. Muller |
Published: June 01, 2010 at 11:47 am
Barrett Tillman's book offers an impressive 360-degree look at the 1944-45 air offensive.
Jay Wertz |
Published: May 19, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Ground War, a new 4-part PBS documentary, explores how man’s ingenuity and development of technological solutions has made land combat a constantly changing element in the art of war, from the phalanx to the Abrams tank.
Stephen Budiansky |
Published: April 12, 2010 at 11:08 am
In 1940, the Blitz found Britain utterly unprepared to cope with the rain of unexploded German bombs that quickly began filling the streets of London and other major cities. No one had even anticipated the problem, certainly not John Hudson.
Published: January 12, 2010 at 6:54 pm
P.W. Singer - a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution and a former consultant to the departments of State and Defense - explores the history, development and current state of military robotics in his new book Wired for War.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: January 06, 2010 at 5:27 pm
MAJ George Patton's 1932 essay, "The Probable Characteristics of the Next War."
Robert M. Citino |
Published: January 06, 2010 at 1:45 pm
We often criticize armies who train "to fight the last war." The real problem, however, is that they train based on mistaken notions of what the next war will be like.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: December 13, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Hitler didn't use poison gas, but--needless to say--it wasn't because he had doubts about the morality of it all.
Max Gadney |
Published: September 18, 2009 at 11:05 am
The Supermarine Spitfire was designed by R. J. Mitchell in 1934 as an agile,
high-speed British fighter. The Spitfire name covers 24 different variants—planes that differ greatly in firepower, armor, engine power, and airframe design. Late Spitfires bore little resemblance to their forebears.
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