The Year’s Best Military Photos
Throughout 2011 we posted weekly slide shows of favorite military photos we’d come across in putting together our various publications …
International Militaries
The Early Months of U.S. Entry Into World War II
“[American] bathers and sometimes entire coastal cities are witnesses to that drama of war whose visual climaxes area constituted by …
Ready To Eat! Thirty Years of the MRE: Wondering What the Other Guys Eat
In part five of our series on the 30th anniversary of the MRE we come to one of the most …
The Collapse of Empires
In December 1941, it was as if Hachiman, the Japanese god of warriors and protector of Japan, had straddled the …
Pearl Harbor: Preparations for War
In January 1941, Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of Japan’s Combined Fleet, used brush, ink, rice paper, and the rich flourish …
Comes a New Cold War?
Without fanfare or finger pointing, senior Defense Department officials make it abundantly clear that the United States and China are …
Operation Crusader: The Incomplete British Counterstroke in North Africa
“The Eighth Army with about 75,000 men excellently armed and equipped, have started a general offensive in the Western Desert …
Force K Annihilates the Duisburg Convoy
“The ships seemed to make no effort to escape, and it was all too easy; they burst into flames as …
Churchill’s Blunder: Iron Rule of the Raj in India
“I am by no means sure whether on this subject of India [Churchill] is quite sane.”
—Leo Amery, Secretary of …
Lord Louis Mountbatten Becomes Director of Combined Operations
“We want you home here at once for something which you will find of the highest interest.”
—Telegram from Prime …