Category: Military History

The Suez Crisis illustrated the supremacy of the U.S. and drove home to the British and French that their days had passed.

How to do away with POGs? By creating even more acronyms courtesy of Special Operations!

The German war machine almost crushed the bulk of the British infantry in Dunkirk. Find out why it didn’t.

The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan forced most modern and technologically advanced armies to reasses their strategies on guerrilla and asymetric warfare.

Norman J. “Dusty” Kleiss was a Battle of Midway hero whose mastery wrought tremendous damage to the Japanese.

Your submarine is in trouble? SPAG will parachute in and give you a hand.

Here’s to a happy 246th birthday to you, U.S. Army! You don’t look a day over 200!

Whether foreign mothers portray them as monsters to scare their children or as saviors who dispatch the monsters, the Air Commandos’ myth is created in the shadows.

“Lt. Williams, it is hard for your President to find words to tell you of the deep gratitude and admiration that your fellow Americans have.”

General George S. Patton, near the end of World War II, called the M1 Garand, “the greatest battle implement ever devised.”

Unlike many of the paratroopers who went through their baptism of fire on D-Day, Charles DeGlopper was already an experienced fighter.

Had Panzer VIII Maus’s production started a few years earlier it could have changed the landscape of the war.