“The practice of decimation didn’t die with the Roman Empire. Military commanders throughout history have revived the tradition from time to time as a means of punishment.” BY ALL ACCOUNTS, Luigi Cadorna…
Year: 2014
Playing ‘What If…’ With History — Writer Imagines 21st Century Military Hardware in Second World War
COULD a modern-day Nimitz-class aircraft carrier single-handedly take out the 56-ship Japanese task force that crossed the Pacific to attack the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in 1941? Such was the premise…
INFOGRAPHIC: From Marathon to Fallujah — 2,500 Years of Battlefield Tactics
We close the week with yet another reader-supplied info graphic. This one comes to us from Rebecca Louis of the website Online Military Education, a domain devoted to connecting American service men and…
Eugene Bullard – The First African-American Combat Pilot Was a Hero in France But Forgotten in the U.S.
“Despite his acclaim in France, Bullard received virtually no recognition in America.” EUGENE JACQUES BULLARD may have been the 6,950th French military pilot to earn his wings during World War One, but he’s…
When In Rome — Was American Exceptionalism Inspired By An Ancient ‘Superpower’?
“The Romans were pretty sure they were the good guys … It helped that they believed their civilization and their political system were better than those of the peoples they invaded.” By…
Reader Infographic — 100 Years of British Army Weapons and Equipment
LAST YEAR, an MHN reader from the United Kingdom by the name of Allie Redmond forwarded us this infographic she composed about the 250-year evolution of the uniform of the British…
Slow Burn — 11 Terrifying Facts About Mustard Gas
“Here are some little-known facts about one of history’s most terrible weapons of mass destruction.” TO THE MILLIONS OF MEN FIGHTING IN FLANDERS in 1917, it would have been hard to imagine how the…
‘Life Goes On’ – The Unfinished Nazi War Movie That History Forgot
“The completed footage mysteriously vanished in the chaos of the Third Reich’s final days making Life Goes On perhaps the greatest lost artifact of Nazi Germany.” FOR GERMANY, 1944 was a dark year…