When His Navigator Ejected Halfway Out The Plane, The Heroic Pilot Just Managed To Land And Save His Buddy’s Life
Being launched off the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is a normal routine, but adrenaline junkie pilots love the radical feel of about 4…
Quickly raising armies in the English Civil War – the infantry, or Foot, were divided into two basic units, the pikes & the muskets
By Guest Blogger Jemahl Evans England in the middle of the Seventeenth Century was the most demilitarized nation in Europe. Contemporary accounts claimed that at the…
No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy – The Intellectual Genius Of General James “Mad Dog” Mattis
Often referred to as the General Patton of the modern era, General James “Mad Dog” Mattis once told a group of Iraqi tribal elders “I…
Battle of Berlin – The Soviets Hammering The Nail In the Coffin Of The Third Reich
For a war that left 60 million dead, countless lives permanently destroyed and hundreds of thousands homeless and in need, the Battle of Berlin proved…
Outnumbered Ten To One – Rallying To The Flag Until The End
It was July 27, 1880. In the incredible heat of the high Afghan summer, an army of two and a half thousand men marched toward…
Admiral Nelson’s Decisive Victory Over The French at Alexandria
Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson, the rising star of the British Royal Navy, had been pursuing the fleet of the French Republic around the Mediterranean for two…
Lt. Presley O’Bannon, the Marine Corps Mameluke Sword, and the Shores of Tripoli Before It Was a Hymn
People say many things about the United States Marine Corps, but one thing they can not say is that these mighty warriors of the modern…
Picked up a Sub-machine Gun At Goose Green and Charged the Argentine Trenches – it is worth noting that as an officer of a high rank who would typically be further back from the front lines
Perhaps it is because the war only lasted ten weeks and occurred during a period when the US-Soviet Cold War was the backdrop for most…
How Climate Change Helped the Swedes March Across A Frozen Sea And Defeat The Danes
It all started in 1655 during the Second Northern War. Sweden was fighting against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Russia, Brandenburg-Prussia, the Habsburg Monarchy, Denmark-Norway, and sometimes,…
Saint Nazaire The Best Raid of WW2: Massive Intel, Courage, Sacrifice and Big Explosions
A little after 1:20 AM on March 28, 1942, searchlights on both sides of the Loire Estuary flooded the waterway to reveal a convoy. Twelve…
Outnumbered & With Taliban Overrunning the Base, Clinton Romesha Was Awarded MoH at the Battle of Kamdesh
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…
In Feudal Japan, This Ambitious Warlord Rose To Blood-Soaked Victory, Then Was Betrayed
During the 16th century, Japan was politically fragmented. Warlords fought for control of local provinces. The weak government of the shogun could not maintain the…