The North Vietnamese Army Easter Offensive of 1972: A Massacre Near the Rockpile?
By W. R. Baker Preface Not so for the very few Human and Signal Intelligence units remaining in-country who...
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In the Shadow of Custer (An Intelligence Officer Rides with the 7th Cavalry in the Gulf War)
By Ray Starmann 2100 Hours, 23 February 1991 Forward Assembly Area Butts Saudi Arabia G-Day – 1 “All...
The Hürtgen Forest, 1944: The Worst Place of Any
By Rick Atkinson IN LATE OCTOBER 1944, the U.S. First Army set up its winter headquarters in the Belgian...
The Battle of Elsenborn Ridge – V Corps Holds the Line
(Soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Division take cover) By Ray Starmann The Battle of Elsenborn Ridge, fought on the...
Carlson’s Raid On Makin Island
USMC Association The war news in America in 1942 was bleak. Our navy had lost the bulk of its...
Gulf War I – The Battle of Al-Khafji
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No Better Place To Die
IndieGoGo Join Captain Dale Dye in making one of the greatest war movies of all time! Capt. Dale Dye...
Politico’s hit piece on Patton: The Left gets it all wrong AGAIN
Politico There are scholar presidents, and presidents who don’t read much, and then there is President-elect Donald Trump, who...
US Defense Watch Remembers the Battle of the Bulge: December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945
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At Pearl Harbor, the silence 75 years later pays tribute to the sacrifices that saved the world
LA Times Sometimes, sorrow and reverence only whisper. As the Navy shuttle pulled near the sunken USS Arizona battleship...
How Douglas MacArthur would have responded to ISIS terror attacks
Fox News Like all Americans, my wife and I watched with horror as the news came about the mass...
The Last of the Boys of Pointe du Hoc: The Rangers of Dog Company Who Accomplished D-Day’s Toughest Mission
Breitbart It was the toughest mission of D-Day. Allied plans called for 225 Rangers, including Dog Company, to land...
June 6, 1944: The Greatest Day of the 20th Century
BY RAY STARMANN Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon...
A Look At How The Causes Of War Casualties Have Changed Through American History
Medical Daily Americans have been involved in a lot of conflicts, from the Revolutionary War to recent military excursions...
Don’t Worry General, We Trust You
By Ray Starmann Six simple words, “Don’t worry General, we trust you.” During the Gulf War in 1991, General...
How Reagan Won the Cold War
Accuracy in Academia Ronald Reagan’s legacy, long after his passing, continues to be distorted by the leftist academic community,...
The Warblog: The 2000 Yard Stare
By Dale Dye Some sage said that one picture is worth a thousand words. There’s some dispute about who...
Kim Philby, British double agent, reveals all in secret video
By the BBC A previously unseen video of one of Britain’s most infamous spies describing his career as a...
Would The U.S. Survive Another Battle of Okinawa?
By The Blaze It’s hard to believe the resolve the United States once showed in defeating enemies. One wonders...
We Were Winning When He Left
By Dale Dye There’s a VA facility near my home and I pass by it about three times each...
National Vietnam Veterans Day
I’m a few hours late on this post, but better late than never today. A great episode from the...
Time to drop the Airborne
By Colonel (Ret.) Don McFetridge The Army and indeed the entire Department of Defense is under excruciating pressure to...
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
President Reagan’s famous speech commemorating the 40th Anniversary of D-Day on June 6, 1984. We’re here to mark that...
Battle of Midway Literature
By Ray Starmann In the seventy-three years since the Battle of Midway was fought and won by the US...
Duty, Honor, Country: Douglas MacArthur
The New American When retired General of the Army Douglas A. MacArthur made a farewell visit to his alma...
Operation Flipper: The Commando Raid on Rommel’s Headquarters
“It was a brilliant operation and with great audacity.” —Lt. Gen. Erwin Rommel, Afrika Korps commander Defense Media Network...
Legends of Vietnam: The Grumman A-6 Intruder
Air and Space Magazine On a May afternoon in 1972 a flight of four Grumman A-6 Intruders, the lead...
Weighing the Geopolitics of the Vietnam War
A cyclist pauses next to a billboard in Ho Chi Minh City featuring the 40th anniversary of the communist...
The Other Cactus Air Force
By Lawrence Spinetta Although accounts of the defense of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal typically focus on Marine Corps air...
Be Ye Men of Valour: May 19, 1940
WinstonChurchill.org By May 14, the news from the front was uniformly bad. The Germans had broken through the French...
How the Loss of Vietnam Echoes in Politics Today Amid Our Retreat in Mideast
New York Sun Could it be that two generations from now our grandchildren are going to be watching a...
CORRECTING MYTHS ABOUT THE PERSIAN GULF WAR: THE LAST STAND OF THE TAWAKALNA
Middle East Journal Stephen A. Bourque This paper is based on rsearch for Bourque’s book Jayhawk: The VII Corps...
The God-Damned Infantry
By Ernie Pyle Ernie Pyle’s immortal salute to the infantry. Now to the infantry – the God-damned infantry, as...
The Peninsula Campaign – Robert E. Lee and the Seven Days
Civil War Trust By Robert E.L. Krick By June of 1862, following its slow advance up the Peninsula, McClellan’s...
10 Extraordinary Quotes About War From WWII Correspondent Ernie Pyle
Task and Purpose Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ernie Pyle spent his last years embedded with troops in Africa, Sicily, Italy,...
“Mount Up!”: Cavalry Operations of the Gettysburg Campaign
Civil War Trust The Gettysburg Campaign is usually considered to be the bellwether campaign of the American Civil War....
Antietam: The Bloodiest Day in American History
Civil War Trust Explore the Civil War Trust’s animated map of the Battle of Antietam, produced by Wide Awake...
The Shot Heard Round the World – April 19, 1775
History.com The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83)....
April 18, 1942: America Strikes Back
Eyewitness To History Once the shock of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor subsided, the focus of American military...
Washington’s Visions at Valley Forge
US History.org In the National Tribune, 1880, an article appeared giving an account of the “Vision of Washington” at...
The Battle of Yellow Tavern
America’s Civil War and History.net When the Battle of the Wilderness ended on May 7, 1864 it left Robert...
“The Most Propitious Time…for the Confederate Army to Enter Maryland” Robert E. Lee’s Decision to Invade the North in September 1862
Civil War Trust General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia entered the final stage of a protracted...
Lincoln’s Secret Killer
Lincoln’s Secret Killer? Was Lincoln already dying when he was murdered? Using blood from the assassination itself, NGC will...
Greatest Tank Battles: The Battle of 73 Easting
The Battle of 73 Easting was a decisive tank battle fought on 26 February 1991, during the Gulf War,...
Air Cav: How Soldiers in the Sky Reshaped Combat on the Ground
Arguably, the relief of Khe Sanh was the war’s most important cavalry raid. One of the great battlefield innovations...
Sherman’s Folly at Shiloh
BY THE TIME he reached Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River in March 1862, William Tecumseh Sherman was a...
Burma Campaign: Seizing Imphal and Kohima In World War II
The Allied effort in Burma during World War II was dominated by strong personalities and hampered by divergent strategic...
The Confederados
By Ron Soodalter Originally published by America’s Civil War magazine. Defiant Rebels bolted for Brazil rather than accept defeat....
A Reminiscence of General James M. Gavin
By Carlo D’Este My first association with Lt. Gen. Jim Gavin occurred in 1979 when, as a fledgling researcher...
The Civil War isn’t Over
150 years after Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the...
Audie Murphy – The Most Decorated US Soldier of WWII
Born near Kingston, Texas, Audie Murphy (1924-1971) won fame as the most decorated soldier in U.S. military history. During...
Merrill’s Marauders – The True Story
The true story of Merrill’s Marauders on Dangerous Missions. Merrill’s Marauders (named after Frank Merrill) or Unit Galahad, officially...
LRRPS in Vietnam
A History Channel documentary on the History of the LRRPs (Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrols) in the Vietnam War.
Dark Clouds over Junction City
In the war’s biggest operation, Westmoreland won his ‘big unit’ campaign but lost confidence that the war could be...
In the Hot Seat over Gettysburg
On January 20, 1896, the members of the A.P. Hill Camp of Confederate Veterans gathered in Petersburg, Va., for...
Jimmy Doolittle and the Tokyo Raiders
Tokyo. April 18, 1942. A clear and quiet morning. The one hundred and thirty-third day of Japan’s war with...
Were Maps Lee’s Real Enemy at Gettysburg?
By Earl B. McElfresh Fighting on Strange Ground Can poor planning and bad maps explain the Confederate defeat at...
The Battle of Al-Khafji
The Battle of Khafji was the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War. It took place in and...
Captain Jerry Yellin and WWII’s Last Combat Mission
Captain Jerry Yellin discusses flying the last combat mission of World War II in the linked video.
How Dale Dye Earned the Bronze Star for Valor in Vietnam
Dale Dye is a veteran of the Vietnam war, accomplished actor, author, and entrepreneur, but most of the filmmaking...
97 Year Old Vet Relives the Bataan Death March
CLEMSON – War has a way of changing people, hardening them, sometimes for the worst. Ben Skardon’s wartime experience...