CRAZY: The U.S. Nearly Nuked North Korea Over the Captured Spy Ship USS Pueblo
On January 23, 1968, a run-down environmental research ship was conducting oceanographic studies when it was surrounded by North Korean naval forces, which demanded its…
Today in Military History – September 25th
Today in Military History – September 25th 1066: Battle of Stamford Bridge This battle was fought between the English army of King Harold Goodwinson and…
Today in Military History – September 24th
1925: France renegotiates its debt from WWI France tried to renegotiate its war debt of $4,000,000,000, citing that the French government could not pay without…
Today in Military History – September 23rd
1779: Captain John Paul Jones defeats British and Utters Now Famous Phrase During the Revolutionary War, the British man-of-war HMS Serapis clashed against the American…
Today in Military History – September 22nd
1862: President Abraham Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation Following the Union victory (draw) at Antietam (Sharpsburg), the President’s proclamation freed all slaves who were still…
Today in Military History – September 21
1939: President Roosevelt Again Attempts to Revoke the Neutrality Acts Having grown war-weary after WWI, Americans thought at the time that the best answer to…
Today in Military History – September 20th
451 AD: Romans Defeat Attila the Hun at the Battle of the Catalunian Plains Flavius Aetius had signed an agreement allowing the Huns to settle…
The Ship Hunting Harpoon Missile
The name Harpoon evokes whale hunting when one thinks about it, and for good reason, because this missile was originally designed in 1965 to hunt…
Best Infantry Weapons of WW2
The most iconic and famous weapons of their time are not always the best or the most practical. However, this is a list of weapons…
How Radar was the Game Changer of WWII and It’s Only Gets Better
During World War II, in August 1940, Germany started taking the fight to the skies of Great Britain, the last nation in Europe that stood…
Air Cavalry Tactics in Vietnam
Two distances that appear the same in a flat tactical map may be very different when moving infantry divisions over difficult or treacherous terrain like…
The Best Fighter Aircraft in the Vietnam War
Even though the Vietnam War, which raged from November 1955 to April 1975, is often looked upon mainly as a helicopter and bomber war due…