Knives at Each Other’s Throats: The Resistance Movements of Mihailović and Tito in Yugoslavia
Operation 25, the invasion of Yugoslavia, part of Adolf Hitler’s strategic blunder added this Balkan nation and Greece to the …
Conflicts & Operations
Book Review – Mussolini’s Navy: A Reference Guide to the Regia Marina 1930-1945
Long the butt of ignorant jokes, the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) of World War II had capable professional officers, …
Book Review – America’s Black Sea Fleet
In the aftermath of World War I, a U.S. Navy squadron, “America’s Black Sea Fleet,” was forward-deployed to the Turkish …
Staff Sgt. Clinton L. Romesha and the Battle of Kamdesh
“It was one of the most intense battles in Afghanistan.”
—President Barack Obama, Feb. 11, 2013, of the Battle of …
Navy Forced to Reschedule Carrier Strike Group Rotation
America’s looming fiscal crisis delivered real-world consequences last week with a pair of blows to one of the U.S. Navy’s …
SOE’s Dangerous White Mouse: Nancy Wake
Capt. Nancy Wake of Britain’s Special Operations Executive was a remarkable woman. The wife of a wealthy French industrialist, she …
Llewellyn Chilson: America’s Neglected Warrior
On Dec. 6, 1946, President Harry S Truman pinned seven medals on the chest of Army Sgt. Llewellyn M. “Al” …
Construction of the Alcan Highway
“The biggest and hardest job since the Panama Canal.”
—Maj. Robert W. Madden, describing construction of the Alcan Highway
On …
Tigers in Tunisia
There were never very many Tiger tanks, less than 1,400 total. They were huge (German crews scornfully called them “furniture …
The Creation of the Proximity Fuze
When the Pearl Harbor attack was over, amid the preparations for war, an accounting of the cost began. The losses …