While Tet remains widely regarded as a big surprise, Lt. Gen. Frederick Weyand saw […]
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Fire For Effect: Three-Minute Marshall
FDR was determined to keep the U.S. out of war, but in just a few short minutes General George C. Marshall changed his mind and history
Uncle Sam’s Flying Fire Trucks
U.S. Forest Service adaptations of helicopters to fight raging forest fires in 1967 proved […]
The Boys of ’67: Vietnam’s Band of Brothers
The 160 men of Charlie Company trained together for nearly a year before combat […]
Germany’s Lion of the Defensive
As the Allies battled Germany during World War I, Colonel Fritz von Lossberg emerged as one of their most formidable—and fearsome—adversaries
The French Are Coming!
During the American Revolutionary War a French fleet tried turning the tables on the British by invading the Channel Island of Jersey
When France Defied Hitler’s Panzers
Its Char B1 tanks proved too much for the Wehrmacht’s armor—but even they couldn’t withstand irresolute Allied leadership.
Conversation with former Secretary of the Army: Clifford L. Alexander Jr.
A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, Clifford Alexander Jr. enlisted in […]
Hallowed Ground: Pearl Harbor
… a date which will live in infamy At 0645 on Dec. 7, 1941, […]
The Mystery Behind Why Pearl Harbor Happened
Why did Japan attack the United States Pacific fleet and start a war it could not win?