Military History
Kandahar Kill Zone
In 2006 Canadians assaulting a Taliban stronghold near Kandahar, Afghanistan, came under attack from a multi-fanged enemy
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Book Review: Unlikely General
Mary Stockwell profiles Anthony Wayne, the general whose military action against Indians made the state of Ohio possible
WWII Figures
Book Review: How Hitler Was Made
Cory Taylor traces Adolf Hitler's rise to prominence in prewar Germany through 1924
World War II
September 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about naval lessons from the Falklands War and Japanese internment during World War II
World War II
Book Review: Persian Gulf Command
Ashley Jackson charts the course of World War II in Iran and Iraq, as well as present-day implications
Military History
Farragut Captures New Orleans, 1862
Captain David “Damn the Torpedoes!” Farragut made a bold decision to run the gauntlet with a 17-vessel squadron and make for New Orleans
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Kilometer Zero: Western Front Flashpoint
The respective armies dug in, built reinforced concrete fortifications, then raided, shelled, bombed and sniped at each other
World War II
Parting Shot at Scapa Flow: Firing the Final Salvo of World War I
In June 1919, seven months after the signing of the armistice, a determined admiral of the Imperial German Navy fired the final salvo of World War I
Military History
‘Board Her Boys!’: The 1804 Burning of USS Philadelphia
Unable to wrest USS Philadelphia from the clutches of piratical Tripolitans, Stephen Decatur resolved to burn the captured frigate to the waterline
WWII Battles
A Look Back at D-Day…
A photographic retrospective of history's largest amphibious operation
WWII Battles
Book Review: Airborne in 1943
Kevin Wilson relates that year's grueling night campaigns waged by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command over Europe
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The Maginot Mentality
The wavering French High Command, not any technological failings, spelled the doom of the vaunted Gallic fortifications
WWII Battles
Book Review: American Knights
Tory Failmezger recounts the World War II tank-busting campaigns of the U.S. 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion
1900s
Book Review: Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss discusses nine U.S. presidents who have guided the nation through or kept it out of war
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Waking the Hermit
In 1871 the U.S. Navy and Marines mounted a punitive expedition against Korea, a kingdom that wanted nothing to do with the modern Western world
