Precision-guided munitions have changed the modern battlefield, and in the process created a new American way of war.
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Churchill’s Counterfeit Nation
When the British prime minister ordered an invasion of Iraq in 1941, it was neither the first nor last time a Western power meddled in Mesopotamian affairs.
Thunder on the Hudson
If Sir Henry Clinton had been allowed to follow up his 1777 capture of […]
MacArthur’s Forgotten Field Commander
Relying on daring raids and sound battlefield judgment, General Walter Krueger reclaimed Luzon from […]
In the Dark and Out of Luck
Modern American intelligence gathering, not yet a science, can still leave military forces lost […]
Death of the Wehrmacht
In 1942, the German Army, turning one last time to its traditional Prussian tactics of maneuver, met its end.
Drinking Your Own Bathwater: Tet Intelligence Failures
American inability to connect the dots is well known, but what about the intelligence […]
What Really Happened in Pinkville?
The Army lawyer who dissected the Calley trial testimony deconstructs the mythology that still […]
Lincoln’s Fleeting Hope for an Early End to the War
In a newly discovered letter penned four days after Gettysburg, the commander in chief urges his generals in vain to destroy Lee’s army.
Book Review | When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History
On November 8, 1519, after spending more than six months fighting his way into […]