Category: History

Notes on one of the most infamous and bloody battles of World War II—from the German perspective.

The ancient Assyrian Empire in the old, middle, and neo periods fought fiercely in siege tactics to turn rivals into vassalage and extend their force projection across the ancient Near East. These Semitic peoples would lay the foundations of siege warfare along with extraordinary cultural achievements for modern human civilization.

A definitive biography of one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century.

Marine Sgt. John Peck survived an IED during the War on Terror that left him with a traumatic brain injury, and amnesia, and cost him his marriage. He survived another three years later, one that left him with three and a half limbs missing. This is his story.

The classic real-life story of the superspy whose vast intelligence network helped defeat the Nazis in World War II.

Straight out of the FBI’s most famous cases, here’s how the agency caught German spy Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn and his family red-handed.

At the height of the Cold War, the FBI launched Operation Lemonade in 1977 to catch Soviet spies on their covert operations.

On the backdrop of the War in Ukraine, could Ukrainian Intelligence target known Russian war criminals?

The South Caucasus region has been plagued by ethnic and territorial disputes caused by Moscow’s manipulation of illogical borders, and with the potential for another war between Armenia and Azerbaijan looming, international calls for a new peacekeeping mission are increasing to mitigate wider regional and global implications.

Amid the Cold War, a Russian spy tried to obtain intel from a Grumman engineer involved in the design of the then-state-of-the-art F-14 aircraft.

A huge explosion rocked New York in the early morning of 30 July 1916 as thousands of pounds of munitions on Black Tom Island detonated.

Soldiers of the 1st Special Forces Command stand at parade rest at the gravesite of President John F. Kennedy.