Breaking the Gustav Line
In 1943 General Alphonse Juin and his Corps Expéditionnaire Français showed the Allies how to win a fight in the mountains
View ArticleBlind Bear at Bay: The Russians at Tannenberg
Obligated by treaties to declare war in August 1914, Russia found that its vast army was no match for German intelligence, reconnaissance, and railways
View ArticlePostwar Agony in Greece
After German occupation, civil wars among communists, collaborators, monarchists, rebels, ex-partisans, and death squads all but destroyed Greece
View ArticleCan You Hear Me Now?
Before telegraph, telephone, and radio, how did the ancients exert battlefield command and control?
View ArticleVasco da Gama’s Breakout Voyage
Portuguese explorers reached India in the 15th century, establishing a legacy of misunderstanding, suspicion, hostility—and violence
View ArticleThe Battle for Baikal
In 1918 the Czecho-Slovak Legion found itself fighting the Red Army in Siberia for control of the world’s deepest lake. ONE OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR YET LITTLE-KNOWN STORIES of World War I and the...
View ArticleOuter Limits of Armor
Eccentric solo inventor J. Walter Christie designed vehicles like no others. But his oddball designs influenced some of the 20th century’s best tanks.
View ArticleThe Christmas Bombing
Was our December 1972 bombing of Hanoi a great victory that brought “peace with honor”? Or was it a blunder that cost South Vietnam its freedom? IF THE MANY CONTROVERSIES THAT SWIRL around the...
View ArticleGeorge H.W. Bush: A Nation Bids Farewell
Hearse, not horses, took former president to lie in state in the Capitol
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