Dying to Fight – Two Thousand Years of Suicide Attackers
“As far back as ancient times, warring factions have turned to martyrs and fanatics to inflict mass casualties on their enemies, even if it means dying in the process.” THE ISLAMIC STATE CONTINUES TO FIND NEW…
First Blood – History’s Earliest Recorded Military Conflicts
“Early scribes from Mesopotamia were able to leave behind history’s first-known preserved accounts of war.” WARFARE IS as old as civilization itself. In fact, experts believe that the first armed conflicts were fought more…
Lights, Camera, Awful – Could These Be The Worst WW2 Movies Ever Made?
(Originally published Oct. 3, 2014) HOLLYWOOD’S NEXT WORLD WAR TWO BLOCKBUSTER, Fury, is set to blast its way into theatres later this month. The film, which stars Brad Pitt and the increasingly eccentric Shia LaBeouf, follows…
The Irish Brigades – How Ireland’s Foreign Volunteer Armies Made Their Mark On History
“All told, well over 50,000 Irishmen served in the armies of France, Spain and Austria. Some of the volunteers became great military reformers who helped modernize the Continent’s antiquated armies.” By Stephen McGarry WHEN THE…
Winged Warriors – The Glider Troopers of WW2
“Tens of thousands of gliders would be used in the war and ‘airlanding’ regiments would see action in no fewer than eight major operations.” ON SEPT. 13, 1943, HIGH ATOP ITALY’S Apennine Mountains, one of the most…
Tomahawk – A Brief History of the BGM-109
“Following its combat debut in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the ship or sub-launched BGM-109 would be used in every major U.S. air campaign for the next 30 years” WHILE OFTEN CONSIDERED on the ‘cutting-edge’ of…
