Category: Wars You Never Knew About
The Fenian Raids — How an Army of Irish-American Civil War Vets Took On the British Empire
“These former foes marched side-by-side to undertake one of the most fantastical missions in military history—to hold the Britain’s Canadian colonies hostage.” By Christopher Klein THIRTEEN MONTHS AFTER Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court…
A Very Civil War – Inside Switzerland’s Astonishingly Polite Armed Conflict of 1847
“Although civil wars can be among the bloodiest and most acrimonious of all armed conflicts, this particular contest was utterly genteel by comparison.” THE TERM “civil war” is something of an oxymoron. Just like “jumbo…
Confederates of the Nile – Meet the Civil War Vets Who Volunteered to Fight for the Egyptian Army
“Less than 10 years after the fall of the Confederacy, they found themselves posted more than 6,000 miles from home, in new uniforms and leading columns of African troops into the Ethiopian highlands.” By James A….
War in Peace — How the End of WW1 Triggered an Explosion of Revolution, Rebellion and Armed Conflict Throughout Europe and Elsewhere
“Even before the ink on the 1918 Armistice was dry, the Great War would spawn literally dozens of new conflicts across Eastern Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East.” ON NOV. 11, 1918, the guns fell…
Barbarians at the Gate – The Last Battles of the Roman Army
“Under-resourced, scattered across a rapidly dwindling empire and comprised more and more of non-Roman and even barbarian troops, the soldiers of the late Western Empire would fight a centuries-long defensive campaign.” BY THE TIME of…
Shots in the Dark – Why So Many Western Covert Operations Have Failed Since WW2
“The lure of clandestine warfare lingered on after 1945, but these peacetime operations often proved disastrous.” By Charles Glass BEFORE PRESIDENT Barack Obama authorized clandestine operations to defeat the Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad in…
