Hostilities — Infographic Explores America’s Declarations of War

THE UNITED STATES has been in 14 major wars since independence, more than 20 armed foreign interventions and has used military force to suppress nearly 40 separate Indian uprisings. Yet amazingly, Washington has only ever formally…

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Enter the Ninja – Facts and Myths About Japan’s Most Mysterious Warriors

“Hired as mercenaries, special operatives and spies, ninjas favoured covert warfare not unlike modern-day special forces.” By Antony Cummins THE WORD NINJA is used worldwide as shorthand for anyone (or anything) that’s quick and stealthy. Ever since entering the western lexicon…

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The Battle of Crécy — An Interactive Look at England’s 1346 ‘Victory in Europe’

Sponsored Content MilitaryHistoryNow.com is pleased to announce a partnership with Rowan Technology, publishers of the new digital app The West Point History of Warfare. The 71-chapter collection covers wars from Ancient Greece to Afghanistan and Iraq and…

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VE Day Special — MHN Salutes the Warbirds of Europe (Photo Gallery)

IN HONOUR OF the 70th anniversary of VE Day, MilitaryHistoryNow.com invited warbird photographer Kai Hansen to share a few of his favourite images of some of the legendary aircraft of the Second World War. A seven-year veteran…

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The Mayaguez Incident — America’s Deadly Last Battle in South East Asia Happened Two Week’s After Saigon’s Fall

“The crisis and botched rescue served as a farcical footnote to America’s decade-long misadventure in Indo China.” CHARLES McMAHON AND DARWIN LEE JUDGE lay claim to a most unfortunate place in the history books: The two…

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“Kolberg” — Nazi Germany’s Cinematic Swan Song

“The 104-minute feature film was a dramatization of the historic battle by Prussian patriots to defend Pomerania’s last un-conquered city from Napoleon.” THE LAST THING Germany’s dazed and weary masses wanted or needed in early 1945 was a movie —…

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