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The Stranger-Than-Fiction Career of the OSS’s Carl Eifler

The colonel headed a clandestine operations program that required brute force, innovation, and a strange-looking submarine.

Superiors branded him “difficult.” Yet Percy Hobart was just the kind of genius the Allies desperately needed.

As any buff knows, the term “World War II” is something of a misnomer. […]

Sixty-one years later, it’s still unclear who deserves the blame for the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

by Geoffrey Perret5/30/201911/5/2019

Experience gained fighting the Japanese and Chiang Kai-shek helped a dynamic military leader take on the United States twice, to victory and a draw

Louis Davout expected to play a secondary role in the Jena campaign, but when […]

by Ian S. Port5/20/20191/31/2022

Leo Fender’s rhythmic innovation powered the music of a generation

Tory Failmezger recounts the World War II tank-busting campaigns of the U.S. 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion

by Ed Hey4/3/20194/23/2019

Bleecker beat Igor Sikorsky to the punch by developing a fully controllable helicopter in […]

Thomas Fleming continues his exploration of early American military history with an examination of […]