A Marine Corps Legacy that Began at the Battle of Puerto Plata
The small American sloop, bedraggled and battered by wind, weather, and sun, made its way slowly towards the harbor as the sun rose above the…
CRAZY: The U.S. Nearly Nuked North Korea Over the Captured Spy Ship USS Pueblo
On January 23, 1968, a run-down environmental research ship was conducting oceanographic studies when it was surrounded by North Korean naval forces, which demanded its…
Strange but True: Former Russian Officer Was One of the Union’s Great Leaders in the Civil War
Ivan Turchaninov was born in 1822 in the Don River region of southern Russia, and graduated in 1841 from the Imperial Military School in St.…
Super Weapons That Ended the Reign of Knights
It is without a doubt that weapons, since time immemorial, have the most effective tools in winning wars. In the Medieval Ages, the strength of…
Are Soviet Subs the Best in the World? Let’s Look at the Facts
All countries think that their military equipment is the best in the world, but these three Soviet submarines can undoubtedly lay claim to being the…
Russian War Story Proven to be a Fabrication
War propaganda is rampant wherein the popular imagination is considered, and at least for western audiences, it really is only in recent years that war…
History’s First Tank? The Highly Effective Hussite War Wagon
The Hussite war movement didn’t terrify its opponents solely because it represented a break from the Catholic church: the manner in which the movement went…
Today in Military History – September 25th
Today in Military History – September 25th 1066: Battle of Stamford Bridge This battle was fought between the English army of King Harold Goodwinson and…
Stalin’s Organs – The Iconic “Katyusha” Rocket Launcher with 25 Photos
On July 14, 1941, near a defensive site of the 20th Army in the forest east of Orsha, Captain Ivan Flerov’s battery attacked German positions.…
Battle of Somme: 12 Inches Gained for Every Allied Casualty and Still Debated
Sometimes a war, or a particular battle, can best be understood by examining its statistics – numbers of troops, locations, climates – which can be…
Threats or Seduction Promises – How Hitler Corrupted Germany’s Youth
The Nazis treated most people Jews, Poles, Russians, the French, almost everyone who was not an Ayrian (white Germans) abominably. But when the Party wanted someone…
Today in Military History – September 24th
1925: France renegotiates its debt from WWI France tried to renegotiate its war debt of $4,000,000,000, citing that the French government could not pay without…