Three Moments That Might Have Brought an Early End to the U.S. Civil War

By Iain MacGregor IN JANUARY of 1861, the U.S. Army numbered 17,000 men. These troops were primarily spread across the new western territories. A small number of federal forts and arsenals were sprinkled throughout the…

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The 442nd Infantry — How the Men of the U.S. Army’s Famous Japanese American Regiment Had to Overcome Suspicion (Even of Each Other) Before Going to War

“Senior officers seriously discussed the possibility of disbanding the regiment. That if we could not work together, how can we ever consider going into combat together?”  By George Yagi Jr. WHEN JAPAN attacked Pearl Harbor…

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Frederick The Great — An Icon and Misguided Monarch

“The king failed on a grand, strategic scale in two critical components.” By Michael G. Stroud EUROPE HAS been the breeding ground for some of the greatest military commanders in history, from Prince Eugene of…

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Tyranny of Distance – How Overcoming Geography Was Key to the Allied Victory in WW2

“If the Allies failed to secure the sea lines of communications (SLOCs) between North America and Great Britain from Hitler’s U-boats, the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Normandy and even Southern France would not have…

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Victory 1871 – Inside the Far-Reaching German Triumph in the Franco-Prussian War

“The French, for all their elan’ and sacrifice, succumbed to the unstoppable drive of a modern and vastly better organized army of which they had little understanding.” By Ron Singerton BY THE LATE 1860s the…

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Life from Death — The First World War and the Birth of Modern Medicine

“It was that awful butchery of humans that led to the true foundation of modern medicine.” By Thomas S. Helling, MD AT THE DAWN of the 20th century, the world was poised on the brink…

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