The Surrender of Japan Aboard the USS Missouri
Imperial Japan announced its surrender on August 15, 1945. The surrender was formally signed a few weeks later, on September 2, 1945, halting the hostilities…
Five Women Who Played Vital Roles in the American Civil War
While in most modern cultures women have only been permitted to officially participate in warfare for a few decades at most, that has never prevented…
Civil War Spies: The Secret, Underground Peace Societies Of The American Civil War
Though we may think of the South as a unified place in which the Confederacy was born and fought for, it was a place divided…
Commanding Thousands – Approaches to Generalship on Ancient Battlefields
Modern generals are granted access to a multitude of communication and information gathering technologies from satellite imaging to UAVs and infantry equipped with cameras. Ancient…
The Roman Army – Mighty War Machine Of The Ancient World
The Roman army is often remembered as a highly professional force, with legionaries in segmented armour organised into centuries for close order combat. In reality, the…
When Gods Collide – Hannibal and Scipio – Titanic Military Rivalries From The Ancient World
Many years after their last battles had been fought, Hannibal Barca and Publius Cornelius Scipio came face to face in the neutral city of Ephesus,…
The Only American To Fight For Both The U.S. And Russia In WWII
For much of the last 70 years, someone who fought for both America and Russia might bring to mind some Cold War espionage, a double…
Must-See American Civil War Sites To Visit Today
The American Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars fought on American soil. Many of the war sites found throughout the eastern half of…
Medieval Armor – From Quilted Cloth to Full Steel Plate
More than any other artifact of war, armor dominates visual images of medieval Europe. From the chainmail carefully stitched onto each warrior in the Bayeux…
He’s Called The Ghost, Has The Same Medal Count As Audie Murphy, And Is Virtually Unknown
By the time a man earns seven Purple Hearts and lives to talk about it, he could either be described as one of the luckiest…
Behind Enemy Lines – The 82nd and 101st Airborne On D-Day
The amphibious landings of D-Day were hours away when the first combat missions by the US Army started in France. The invasion of Normandy began…
After The USS Indianapolis Was Sunk, The Sailors Had To Survive The Worst Shark Attack in History
On July 30th, 1945, a Japanese submarine sank a Portland-class cruiser of the US Navy, resulting in the single greatest casualty rate in American naval…