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The beginning of the end for the Teutonic Knights, Grunwald 1410

Jack Beckett

For more than two hundred years the might of the Order of Teutonic Knights had been steadily growing. It was forged in 1190, in the…

Outnumbered and With Taliban Overrunning the Base, Clinton Romesha Was Awarded MoH at the Battle of Kamdesh

Jeff Edwards

The Battle of Kamdesh would be one of the costliest battles for the Americans of the entire Afghanistan conflict as it saw an American outpost…

The Philadelphia Experiment: The US Navy’s secret invisibility research program?

Colin Fraser

What kind of technologies do the governments and militaries of the world possess? What highly classified project have the public been blissfully unaware of? Anti-gravity?…

The Amazing SOE Operation To Kidnap General Heinrich Kreipe From Crete

The Special Operation Executive (SOE) in 1944, planned to conduct a daring mission in Crete. Their initial plan was to kidnap the German commander of…

Holocaust: The Third Reich and the Gypsies

Before Hitler targeted and mass slaughtered the Jews in what historically went down as the Holocaust, the Third Reich first victimized the Gypsies – the…

A high-tech promise – Veteran discusses working with new technologies in the 1960s U.S. Navy

By Jeremy P. Amick Graduation from a Nashville area high school in 1956 was only the beginning of a technology-laden adventure for local veteran Bill…

WINCHESTER LEVER-ACTION RIFLES & MAUSER MILITARY RIFLES Review by Mark Barnes

My esteemed colleague Phil Hodges is a big fan of Osprey books but he has been a bit busy working as a fighter pilot in…

Never Let your Age Be an Excuse: 78-year Old Revolutionary War Hero Samuel Whittemore Didn’t

The Revolutionary War, or the War of American Independence if you’re not American, was full of awe-inspiring stories of bravery and daring. Ardent patriots stood…

Saddam’s Secret Super Gun – Project Babylon

Project Babylon was an Iraqi code name for the construction of a supergun, commissioned by Sadam Hussein in 1988. The engineer in charge of the…

8 Reasons for the French Military Disaster at Dien Bien Phu

Arrogance. Ignorance. Poor planning. These were the weapons with which French commanders fought the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, and with which they ensured their…

Battle of the Neretva

Battle of the Neretva, also known as the Battle for the wounded, is a common name for a series of battles in the Neretva valley…

5 Ways We Know About the Roman Army

Given the circumstances, we know an amazing amount about the ancient Roman army. Over 1500 years after the fall of the Roman Empire fell, we…