US Navy Cancels Hybrid Program
The US Navy has confirmed their intention to cancel a program that would have installed fuel-efficient hybrid electric drives in 34 of their destroyers after…
Jets in the Korean War – F-86 Sabre
The F-86 Sabre had several predecessors, all of them introduced in 1944, the last full year of World War Two. That year the Germans brought…
The rebellion of Mary Tudor – she was joined by more than 15,000 men
On July 6, 1553, Edward VI, King of England, lay dead, but only a few people knew about it. The powerful Duke of Northumberland was…
Foreigners who served in the Red Army in WWII
During World War II there were dozens of military formations consisting of foreign nationals fighting alongside the Red Army to turn back the Nazi invasion.…
Strange but True: Jews Fought For Germany in WWII
In early 2018 Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center pressed Finnish President Sauli Niinistö to open an investigation concerning the role Finnish volunteers played…
Dogs of War: New Memorial for Unsung Heroes of The Battlefields
Heroes of past wars have contributed significantly to the freedoms we enjoy today. Those that have saved lives by risking their own will never be…
Task Force Smith – America’s Entry into Korean War
Task Force Smith was composed mostly of men under 21 years of age, and before war broke out in Korea on June 25, 1950, its…
The Remarkable History of the Original Assassins
The first group of assassins to be found in the historical record is that of the Hashshashin who operated in Persia, Syria, and Turkey, eventually spreading…
Conflicting Alliances – The Liberation of Prague, 1945
During the dying days of the Second World War, German forces clung desperately to their last few territories. One of these was a swathe of…
The Stubborn 3 Year Siege of Smolensk
The Time of Troubles is one of the most difficult periods in the history of Russia. It was an era marked by a grave state…
Luftwaffe Eagle: A WWII German Airman’s Story – Review by Mark Barnes
This intriguing book is the autobiography of the Luftwaffe airman Erich Sommer who flew as a navigator on bombing missions and photo-reconnaissance flights before becoming…
The Bureaucratic Goof that Brought Down the Berlin Wall
At 6 o’clock in the evening of November 9, 1989, a befuddled low-level member of the Soviet East German Politburo gave a press conference to…