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…
WWII Naval Disaster – 10,000 Lost Souls on the Wilhelm Gustloff
We probably know how disastrous the story of Titanic was. Even before the movie was released in 1998, we already knew how 1,500 people lost…
Youngest Combat Casualty in the Civil War Fell at Antietam
In April of 1861, Charlie King was giddy with war fever. During those heady days immediately after the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter,…
Fighting Vehicles of the Cold War
The Cold War saw a lot of advancement and diversification in the design of fighting vehicles. Though not directly fighting each other, the world’s great…
Top 5 US Military Spy Planes – Eyes in the Sky
Since the use of weather/observation balloons in World War I, military forces have attempted to get a better understanding of their opposing forces. And as…
MacArthur/Halsey Masterpiece in the Pacific – Operation Cartwheel
Within the first few months of Japan entering WWII, the country had spread its influence over the Pacific. It had successfully invaded many of the…
Kipling’s Firearms: The Jezail and the Jingal
“A scrimmage in a Border Station A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail.” –“Arithmetic on the…
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…
Keeping Out of Combat: How the Swiss Fought to be Neutral
There is no better example of a nation learning its political and military lessons the hard way than the process by which Switzerland adopted the…
US Invasion of Grenada- Successes and Failures
The United States’ invasion of Grenada commenced in earnest on 25 October 1983, on the orders of President Ronald Reagan. The invading force was made…
Royal Concerns: How The King Protected His Children During WWII
While the life of a royal might be hard for many of us to imagine, we can nevertheless empathize with a father’s desire to protect…
How a Drunken Colonel Wasted the Gallant 7th Maine at Antietam
Late in the afternoon of September 17, roughly an hour before the sunset that would mark the close of the bloodiest day in U.S. history,…