Mustang 2.0 – Did the USAF Really Plan to Modernize the P-51 During the 1980s?

“As recently as the 1980s, the Pentagon considered bringing heavily modified variants of the legendary 1940s warbird back into service. Here’s the story.” WHILE THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE remains on the cutting edge of advanced fighter…

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Whatever Happened To… ? — Seven Famous Military Leaders and What They Did Later in Life

Douglas MacArthur once remarked that old soldiers never die, “…they just fade away.” These seven generals certainly did. MANY OF history’s most celebrated military commanders achieved immortality by dying heroically in battle. Think: Horatio Nelson, James Wolfe, Stonewall Jackson and George Armstrong Custer….

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WATCH LIVE — Waterloo Digital Battle Reenactment Powered by ‘Scourge of War’

*** UPDATE *** JUNE 19, 2015 — Matrix Game‘s ‘Scourge of War‘ LIVE digital Waterloo reenactment ran on June 18 and is now over — but here is a link to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation‘s LIVE video feed from…

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World War Zero – More Incredible Facts About The Russo-Japanese War

Sponsored Content  Welcome to the second installment of our two-part series on the Russo-Japanese War sponsored by Rowan Technology, the makers of The West Point History of Warfare digital apps and textbooks. While part one of…

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Water Wars – Seven Armies From History That Used Flooding as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

“Forget scorched earth campaigns. Some of history’s armies have tried to soak their enemies using man-made floods.” UNABLE TO BEST their Spanish opponents in open battle during the Eighty Years War, Dutch rebels hatched a creative (if…

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Waterloo in Real-Time – MHN to Stream Virtual Reenactment of Famous Battle Online

Tune to MilitaryHistoryNow.com on THURSDAY at 11:30 a.m. CET to watch a live Waterloo 200 battle simulation.    CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE SIMULATION LIVE CAN’T MAKE IT to next week’s Waterloo bicentennial reenactment in Belgium? Well, indie…

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