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Remembering the Battle of Okinawa on its 75th Anniversary

On April 1, 1945, approximately 60,000 U.S. Marines and soldiers of the U.S. Tenth Army wade ashore from landing craft onto the beaches of Okinawa. The battle that follows is the largest Allied amphibious landing in the Pacific theater and...

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Vladimir Putin’s World War II Reading List

A letter from the Russian Prime Minister, who was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg); his mother was a factory worker during the siege....

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The Significance of Thermopylae: Why We Ought to Thank the Spartans for...

The Spartan victory at the Battle of Thermopylae opened the door for American staples, like Constitution, Chick-fil-a, and capitalism...

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The General Dynamics F-111 was nicknamed this....

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Rebels on the Run

The dramatic battle for High Bridge only postponed the inevitable. ...

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This was the world’s first purpose-built antisubmarine airplane....

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This Shakespeare play was inspired by the settlement at Jamestown....

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‘Keep punching’: Six Military Quotes to Get You Through the Week

“Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to...

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In honor of legendary fight pilot Robin Olds, Air Force personal grow a mustache in this month. ...

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Book Review: Russia’s Iron General

Jamie Cockfield profiles WWI Russian commander Alexei Brusilov, among his nation's greatest generals...

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Traveling to Tulagi, the Site of a Deadly World War II Offensive

Paradise sometimes has a dark side....

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Harnessing the Airplane: American and British Cavalry Responses to a New Technology

In Harnessing the Airplane Lori A. Henning, assistant professor of history at St. Bonaventure University, New York, the examines the early reactions that the new technology raised among the American and British cavalry corps from 1903 to...

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Lieutenant General Sir Samuel Auchmuty: The Military Life of an American Loyalist...

Although born in New York City in 1756, Samuel Auchmuty’s family came from Fife, Scotland, where there still exist a village called Auchmuty. His family was also Anglican, or Episcopalian as it is called in Scotland and America, which...

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Walking Waterloo, A Guide

Following the current fashion in historiography to publish battlefield guides, as useful to serious scholars as they are to casual visitors, Charles J. Esdaile, professor at the University of Liverpool and a leading Napoleonic...

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Spying for Wellington: British Military Intelligence in the Peninsular War

In Volume 64 in the Campaigns and Commanders Series, How J. Davies, Deputy Dean of Academic Studies at the Joint Services Command and staff college in Shriverman, examines the British gathering and use of military intelligence in the...

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La Guerre et les Hommes (War and Men)

As World War I came to a grinding, faltering halt, and the French Army in near mutinied disarray, French General Marie-Eugène Debeney was a bright spot in an otherwise bleak landscape. For his role in the Allied offensive at Amiens and...

Remembering the Battle of Okinawa on its 75th Anniversary

Vladimir Putin’s World War II Reading List

The Significance of Thermopylae: Why We Ought to Thank the Spartans for...

Daily Quiz for March 30, 2020

Rebels on the Run

Daily Quiz for March 29, 2020

Daily Quiz for March 28, 2020

‘Keep punching’: Six Military Quotes to Get You Through the Week

Daily Quiz for March 27, 2020

Book Review: Russia’s Iron General

Traveling to Tulagi, the Site of a Deadly World War II Offensive

Harnessing the Airplane: American and British Cavalry Responses to a New Technology

Lieutenant General Sir Samuel Auchmuty: The Military Life of an American Loyalist...

Walking Waterloo, A Guide

Spying for Wellington: British Military Intelligence in the Peninsular War

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