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Before MI6 — The Secret History of British Intelligence
“For centuries, kings and queens of England, along with British generals and admirals, have used spies and agents to achieve successes on and off the battlefield.” By Douglas Brown IMAGINE IT’S THE year 1905. The…
Misfire – It was failures by statesmen, not an assassin’s bullets, that triggered the First World War
“Despite the persistent image of a spontaneous murder in some wild, remote, and regressive country, Bosnia was a vital component of a geopolitical conundrum going back for more than a century.” By Paul Miller-Melamed SHOT…
Old Testament Tactics – Six Battle-Winning Strategies from the Bible that Appear Throughout History
“Biblical histories do accord well with contemporaneous records, and even provide insights into military principles of the era.” By Douglas Brown FEW TODAY might consider the Old Testament to be among the most reliable of…
Panther vs. MiG — Inside the Cold War Dogfight That Officially Never Happened
“For decades, the entire incident remained shrouded in mystery.” By Marc Liebman BY NOVEMBER 1952, the air and ground war in Korea had been raging for two years and five months. The People’s Republic of…
The Yucatan Republic — How a Mayan Independence Movement Became a Sideshow of the Mexican-American War
“In the fall of 1847, after the U.S. Army occupied Mexico City, the president of the Campeche government, Santiago Méndez, sent his son-in-law Justo Sierra O’Reilly to Washington D.C. to ask for military support, official…
Devil’s Bargain – Inside the Soviet Union’s Pre-WW2 Cooperation with Germany
“Putin’s myths hide some awful truths: Without the long-standing collaboration between Berlin and Moscow in the days and even years leading up to the invasion of Poland, history would have undoubtedly been very different.” By…
