Major wars and peace settlements that frame today’s security environment.
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Bruyères sits in a valley in northeast France, ringed by four wooded hills that Allied planners labeled A, B, C and D. In October 1944 those hills stood between the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the town. By the night of Oct.
Why launch The Future Face of Battle now? Drawing on his experience as a naval officer, work with the defense industry, and lifelong interest in military history, Yotam Gutman explains why today’s rapid technological transformation demands real-time analysis, and how…
The Greco-Macedonian generals of the Seleucid Empire led armies composed of natives, eastern mercenaries, elephants, chariots, and more. Founded in 312 BC by Seleucus I Nicator, the Seleucid Empire assembled the most multi-ethnic army of the Hellenistic Period. The military core…
Think of soldiers in the Civil War, and our imaginations paint a picture of men in uniforms of blue or butternut-gray marching along dusty roads shouldering a rifle and carrying a backpack or bedroll. In our mind’s eye, perhaps we…
by Joseph Duncan | Oct 17, 2026 | Histoire et légendes | 0 comments A post on Instagram tells his story well. Most of it checks out; a few details are worth sharpening. Kearby had volunteered to lead a four-ship reconnaissance flight over the Japanese bases…
“If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows not fear, I have never seen a brave man,” George Patton wrote in War As I Knew It, published in 1947, two years after his death. The…
As told by James S. Corum in his book Okinawa 1945, when the 19th Fighter Squadron arrived on Okinawa, it was equipped with an amazing new model of the P-47 fighter. On May 25, 1945, the US Army Air Corps, 19th Fighter Squadron, based on Ie Shima,…
“War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, ruthless man to wage war.” George S. Patton Jr. earned the line before anyone had heard of Third Army: he led the first motorized attack in US military…
After dominating the world's sea lanes since the end of World War II, surviving challenges from the Soviet Navy throughout the Cold War, the United States Navy faces its first significant threat to naval superiority. China seeks to become not…
Discover how Ancient Greece’s greatest generals used strategy, diplomacy, and military innovation to change the course of the ancient world. Ancient Greece produced great generals, but they did not all win the same. Themistocles won with a trap. Brasidas captured…