Crossing Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall was never a good move. Though his reputation for integrity and …

For decades the Calcutta Light Horse, a 186-year-old British auxiliary regiment, was more a social club than territorial regiment. Now …

Among the many items on Gen. Sir Alan Brooke’s agenda upon assuming his duties as Chief of the Imperial General …

When Jean Moulin offered his services to Gen. Charles de Gaulle in October 1941, the leader of the Free French …

Gen. George S. Patton called it “the unforgiving minute”– that moment in combat when opportunity for success at little or …

On the evening of Saturday, July 24, 1943, members of the German military mingled with civilians and prepared to enjoy …

The Special Training Centre at Inverailort House near the remote hamlet of Lochailort on Scotland’s western coast is justly famous …

As noted in the previous post, the Air-Sea Battle Concept had antecedents in the Air-Land Battle Doctrine. Given that the …

In his July 13, 1943 diary entry, written during Operation Husky, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., commander of the …

By the time World War II ended in Europe, the Third Reich had introduced into warfare jet- and rocket-propelled combat …