You cannot be a student of WWII unless you throw ideology into the mix. That clash was what it was all about.
Winston Churchill knew the war could not be won without the U.S. involved, an opinion shared by Franklin Roosevelt. Both also knew the...
With widespread use of nano-technology on the way, small devices will be sown in threatened waters that would detect the approach of something...
A World War II vet speaks of his experiences for the first time. He was a clerk in the quartermaster corps who asked for combat duty after his...
The U.S. Army is withering away under Obama....
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A terrific read. It's interesting how aware this officer was of the delusional quality of the leadership in Tokyo after Midway and the defeat in...
The rhetoric of our times is so grossly inflamed that the old words we once used to describe monstrous evil have been devalued almost to the point...
Or was it a fog of war thing? This is from the Washington Times: Questions haunt the families of Extortion 17, the 2011 helicopter mission in...
What is it about the gypsies? I saw a VICE documentary about a public housing complex in some Eastern Europe country, I forgot which. The man...
People who refer dismissively to "popularized history" sometimes mean readable history. But the ordinary reader is unwilling to wade through dense...
This is from the WSJ, June 18, 2011: "We're raising young people who are, by and large, historically illiterate," David McCullough tells me on a...
I can see why deep experts, the people who have studied war in granular detail, might be a bit sniffish about Max Boot's work and give voice to a...
I don't think we know how ignorant younger people are about history today, let alone what it will be a thousand years hence. At the rate knowledge...
When I was a little kid I used to draw pictures on a roll of butcher paper in the living room while my parents listened to the war news on the...
