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Last Ditch Efforts – Six of History’s Doomed Final Offensives
“Operation Spring Awakening represented Nazi Germany’s last major attack in World War Two. Here are some of history’s other doomed final assaults.” MANY REMEMBER Adolf Hitler’s December 1944 assault on Allied troops in the Ardennes as…
General Insubordination — A Brief History of Defiant & Disgraced American Commanders
“A central failing of insubordinate generals is a hubristic inclination to bypass the chain of command and take their disagreements public.” By Jeffrey J. Matthews THE ARMED FORCES of the United States of America are…
The 5th Cavalry Brigade in Syria — Meet the Mounted British Reservists Who Helped Turn the Tide in the Middle East in 1941
“In this ancient land of the horseman, the commanders found they were in no position to reject such a time-honoured way of war.” By Jonathan Washington OPERATION EXPORTER, the Allied invasion of Vichy-held Syria (present-day…
“To Inspire Esteem and Fear” — How Napoleon the Statesman Ruled His Sprawling Empire
“Through his secret police, the emperor kept a cupped ear to mutterings in cafes, shops, and salons.” By William Nester NAPOLEON KNEW WELL the dilemmas facing a conqueror, particularly one who controlled an empire spanning…
“Slide-Rule Strategy” — One Wartime Researcher Calculated the Impact of a Single B-24 Bomber on the Allied Effort. His Findings Are Surprising
“What Blackett did was to ask: What can one aircraft, one Liberator, achieve in the Battle of the Atlantic?” By Niall MacKay IN OUR GROUP at the University of York, we’ve been looking at various…
‘America’s Wars 1754-1945’ — Battlefield Trust Drops Animated Map-Based Documentary on Youtube
“The production uses a combination of dramatic narration, historic and modern images, motion graphics, reenactment footage, and music to share the mesmerizing stories.” MORE THAN 200 years of military history — from the French Indian…
