Old Testament Tactics – Six Battle-Winning Strategies from the Bible that Appear Throughout History
“Biblical histories do accord well with contemporaneous records, and even provide insights into military principles of the era.” By Douglas Brown FEW TODAY might consider the Old Testament to be among the most reliable of…
The Battle of Friedland — How the Pivotal 1807 Clash Became a Study in Napoleon’s Famous Maxims
“Napoleon laid out a series of martial maxims from which to conduct war and warfare by, he just did not always adhere to them himself.” By Michael G. Stroud EYLAU HAD BEEN a wintry bloodbath….
Panther vs. MiG — Inside the Cold War Dogfight That Officially Never Happened
“For decades, the entire incident remained shrouded in mystery.” By Marc Liebman BY NOVEMBER 1952, the air and ground war in Korea had been raging for two years and five months. The People’s Republic of…
The Yucatan Republic — How a Mayan Independence Movement Became a Sideshow of the Mexican-American War
“In the fall of 1847, after the U.S. Army occupied Mexico City, the president of the Campeche government, Santiago Méndez, sent his son-in-law Justo Sierra O’Reilly to Washington D.C. to ask for military support, official…
The Defence of Van – Inside the Stubborn Armenian Resistance That Presaged One of the First World War’s Bloodiest Chapters
“In a foreshadowing of the great urban battles of the Second World War, the Ottomans found fighting street-to-street, house-to-house, and often hand-to-hand in a dense urban environment frustratingly difficult.” By Alexander Zakrzewski Over a hundred…
Operation Foxley – Inside the Abortive Allied Plot to Assassinate the Führer
“The best plan SOE could come up with involved using a sniper to shoot Hitler on his regular morning stroll.” By Eric Lee IT HAS NOW been nearly a quarter century since the British government…
