With North Africa liberated and plans for Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, on track, the question confronting the United States and Great Britain was: What’s next? That was the …
Special operators as well as industry leaders from around the globe received their copies of The Year in Special Operations: 2013-2014 at the 2013 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC). …
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson, is the third volume in his Liberation Trilogy. Begun in 2002 with the release of An …
By the beginning of 1945, the German occupation of the British Channel Islands was well into its fifth year. The Allied liberation of France, that previous summer, had left them …
The alpine region of Tyrol, a borderland between Italians and Germans, has long bred skillful hunters and tough mountain warriors. Around 1778, a Tyrolean master gunsmith, Bartolomeo Girandoni (1729-1799), invented …
In the early years of the war, knowledge of Ultra – British decoded German cypher traffic encrypted by the Enigma machine – was limited to only the most senior American …
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a global component of the Defense Department, providing civil works and engineering support to the nation’s nine combatant commands (COCOMs) and to …
In 1939, Nazi Germany and its then-ally the Soviet Union divided conquered Poland between them per the terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Some senior members of the Polish government and …
During a media availability in Hawaii on Nov. 12, 2012, then-Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta was asked for his thoughts on the threat of sequestration to U.S. defense and …
Two huge, sleek, breathtaking Avro CF-105 Arrow interceptors are on the prowl over the western United States. One is a visitor from north of the border where the futuristic fighter …
